The Role :

This is not a traditional Scrum Master role. You will own delivery tracking, timelines, forecasting, cross-team dependencies, blockers and end-to-end release coordination. You'll work closely with Engineering, Product, QA, Support, Marketing and business stakeholders to ensure commitments are realistic, risks are visible early and releases happen smoothly.

We're looking for someone who is comfortable operating in ambiguity, can challenge unrealistic timelines, and communicates delivery risks early and directly.

What You'll Own :

Agile Delivery & Team Management :

- Facilitate agile ceremonies including stand-ups, retrospectives and team activities.

- Operate effectively across Scrum and Kanban, adapting the process to what the team actually needs.

- Own and maintain Kanban boards, ensuring work is visible, prioritised and up to date.

- Bring structure and focus to multiple engineering teams without creating unnecessary process overhead.

- Work closely with Product and Engineering to keep priorities, estimates and execution aligned.

Delivery Planning & Forecasting :

- Build delivery timelines using engineering complexity estimates and product priorities.

- Establish and track milestones, dependencies and expected delivery dates.

- Continuously maintain delivery forecasts as scope, priorities or engineering estimates change.

- Drive re-estimation and timeline reviews when requirements or priorities shift.

- Identify gaps between business expectations and engineering estimates and drive alignment.

- Provide clear, factual delivery updates to business stakeholders.

- Communicate changes and risks early rather than waiting for deadlines to slip.

Dependencies, Risks & Blockers :

- Proactively identify cross-team dependencies that could impact delivery.

- Drive resolution of blockers and dependencies across teams.

- Escalate resource constraints, bottlenecks and delivery risks when required.

- Keep teams and stakeholders aligned on ownership, timelines and next actions.

- Reduce avoidable stall time by identifying risks before they become delivery issues.

Release Management :

- Own end-to-end release planning for product increments.

- Coordinate release activities across Product, Engineering, QA, Support, Marketing and business stakeholders.

- Ensure the right stakeholders are available and aligned during deployment activities.

- Track release readiness and dependencies through to production.

- Maintain release history and documentation.

- Run release retrospectives and work with Support on post-release incidents and learnings.

What We're Looking For :

- 5+ years of experience in delivery management, release management, agile project management or a closely related role.

- Experience working in multi-team product engineering environments.

- Strong hands-on experience with Scrum and Kanban.

- Proven experience building and maintaining delivery timelines from engineering estimates.

- Strong understanding of estimation, prioritisation, forecasting and dependency management.

- Experience managing end-to-end software releases.

- Ability to identify blockers, risks and cross-team dependencies and drive them to resolution.

- Strong stakeholder management across Engineering, Product, QA, Support and business teams.

- Excellent written and verbal communication.

- Comfortable communicating delivery risks, delays and bad news directly and early.

- Strong hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence.

- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.

- Experience working across multiple teams and time zones is a plus.

- Startup or high-growth product company experience is strongly preferred.

You'll Be a Strong Fit If :

- You can turn engineering estimates and product priorities into a realistic delivery plan.

- You don't wait for a dependency or blocker to become a deadline miss before acting on it.

- You are comfortable challenging unrealistic commitments with facts.

- You can switch between Scrum and Kanban without becoming process-heavy.

- You understand that delivery management is about outcomes, not ceremonies.

- You can keep multiple teams aligned without needing formal authority over them.

- You are comfortable working in an environment where priorities can change quickly.

What This Role Is NOT :

- This is not a role focused only on running stand-ups, maintaining Jira boards or enforcing Scrum ceremonies.

- The expectation is to own delivery visibility, forecasting, dependencies, risks and releases end-to-end.

- If you are primarily a Scrum Master with limited experience in delivery planning, release management and stakeholder management, this role is unlikely to be a fit.