Join Human Made as a freelancer and you'll feel like part of the team. You'll be working on interesting and complex projects, alongside some of the industry's top talent. We're fully remote, and have been for over 10 years, so you can expect well established ways of working, and a vibrant online culture. Once you are booked on a project, you will integrate as part of the team, participating in team meetings and activities with a strong emphasis on asynchronous communication.

As an Agile Delivery Lead, you'll balance project delivery with strategic team leadership, guiding distributed teams to deliver exceptional WordPress-based projects for enterprise clients. You'll have a thorough understanding of scrum/agile concepts, ensuring that delivery processes are efficient, transparent, and continuously improving — enabling your squad to deliver their best.

You'll play a key role in client engagement, delivery planning, and cross-functional collaboration, aligning business needs with agile principles. You'll work closely with other discipline leads to create a culture of trust, empowerment, and continuous improvement, aligning the squad with Human Made's values and helping them to monitor their performance.

Job Title: Agile Delivery Lead
Location: Remote (EMEA – timezone within 4h of UTC+1)
Employment Type: Freelance Contract (8-month commitment required)
Reports to: Global Delivery Lead
Primary Focus: Project Delivery and Team Effectiveness

Applying Scrum To Produce High Quality Work

• Manage each project's scope and timeline
• Create and maintain a team culture that facilitates shared responsibility for successful delivery
• Guide and coach team on principles and practice of the agile framework being used
• Work with squad to help define and refine project scope, estimates, and resource requirements
• Prepare and facilitate workshops (virtual or in-person) to establish project needs and relationships
• Facilitate meetings to monitor project progress and resolve any issues
• Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments
• Assess the time and financial impact of scope change and communicate to stakeholders
• Identify risks and mitigation strategies
• Identify when to use experiments for learning and solutioning

Accountability To The Business

• Be commercially aware: Understand the budget status of your projects and report back to the company
• Manage allocation of project needs in conjunction with squad composition

Building And Safeguarding Relationships

• Facilitate wider engagement with internal and external stakeholders, and partners engaged in delivery
• Build partnership relationships with clients, understanding their business imperatives
• Understand the workings and needs of the account you are partnered with
• Be a leading member of the squad or team
• Communicate regularly; be proactive in facing difficult conversations
• Manage interactions with clients and internal team professionally and personably
• Use data to allow the team and wider business to make critical decisions

Striving For Great Work

• Develop creative and technical judgement and strive for high quality output
• Share progress and communicate to internal and external stakeholders
• Conduct team reviews and retrospectives to promote continuous improvement
• Endorse and present appropriate metrics to sustain continuous improvement
• Report progress, team status, and issues across the board

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM I/II) or similar qualifications desirable
• Experience in a scrum master / agile delivery role
• Thrives in dynamic, multi-project environments with ability to adapt quickly and context switch effectively
• Experience applying scrum, wider awareness of agile principles, and a data-driven mindset
• Experience working in an enterprise agency environment and/or hands-on expertise with Scrum practices
• Strong skills in servant leadership, negotiation, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, and promoting transparency
• Strategic and driven mindset
• Experience using a wide range of project management tools (e.g., Jira, Trello, Confluence, budget/time tracking tools)
• Strong written and oral communication with ability to communicate technical concepts
• Excellent written and spoken English is essential
• Knowledge of web technologies (WordPress, PHP, HTML/HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, version control systems) and hosting/deployment best practices

Benefits

• Gain experience working in an agency without long-term commitment
• Competitive Day Rates
• Work alongside some of the WordPress industry's top engineers
• Access to Slack channels for networking with other WordPress peers at Human Made
• Opportunity to explore Human Made with potential of becoming a full-time employee

How to Apply
Apply directly using the link below:
https://apply.workable.com/humanmade/j/BF87DAE5D6/

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