Senior Delivery Manager; Remote

Progressive Leasing is a leading provider of in-store and e-commerce lease-to-own solutions. With more than 20 years in Fin Tech, we’ve grown from start-up to industry leader by innovating, simplifying, and valuing people. We are a subsidiary of PROG Holdings (NYSE: PRG), a Fin Tech holding company with three business segments:
Progressive Leasing, Purchasing Power (a leading employee purchase program for consumer products and services using payroll deduction), and Four, a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) platform.

We are currently hiring a Senior Delivery Manager to help grow our company and ensure our mission is achieved!

This role is a work from home position and can be performed remotely anywhere in the continental US or in one of our corporate locations in Utah or Arizona.

Employee Value Proposition (EVP): PROG is dedicated to providing people with opportunity; opportunity for inclusive collaboration, opportunity for innovation, and opportunity for development.

Prog Tech embodies the modernity and transformational vision that is core to our business evolution. As passionate and hungry technical experts, we join together on the mission of progressing through technology. We believe in taking pride in our engineering, in the relentless pursuit of daily progress, and to bring others with you in your march to the future. We continuously experiment, fail fast, and constantly deliver.

A consummate team player and effective communicator. You are a highly skilled delivery manager with experience in Agile Scrum development environments. You are a high-functioning Agile Coach or Scrum Master who contributes to and drives teams that deliver high-quality products through efficient software development. You thrive in collaborative environments and masterfully balance pressure from tight timelines with the goal of top-quality products.

You are an expert written and verbal communicator who can positively influence peers, software developers, and other stakeholders by applying structure, discipline, and effective facilitation. You understand and have experience teaching others about Agile principles. You demonstrate adaptability in applying Agile principles flexibly (not rigidly) because you recognize that each software development team even within the same organization – has its own ways of working that are specifically tailored to the team’s needs.

• Provide formal structure throughout the software development lifecycle, including the creation of concrete artifacts for planning, iterative improvement, and outcomes
• Coach team(s) on the software development lifecycle, Agile principles, and general ways-of-working best practices
• Foster a safe team environment that promotes learning, personal growth, and fulfillment for all team members
• Create detailed delivery plans with participation and inputs from Product Manager(s), Software Engineer(s), UX Designer(s), and other relevant stakeholders
• Identify and communicate dependencies and risks to relevant Product Managers, teams, and other relevant stakeholders
• Schedule and facilitate Backlog Refinement sessions regularly to select and prioritize stories for development
• Facilitate periodic sessions with development teams to define (or refine) their definition(s) of ready for epics and user stories, publishing the final definition(s) of ready publicly
• Facilitate periodic sessions with development teams to define (or refine) their definition(s) of done for any/all increments and publish/maintain the definition(s) of done publicly
• Maintain and communicate updates to the delivery plan that result from scope and prioritization changes
• Inform team Software Engineers of any approval demos that are required and schedule demos with approvers as necessary
• Schedule and facilitate a stand‑up cadence that works for your team to provide visibility to recently completed, currently in-progress, and soon-to-begin work as well as “blockers” that require removal
• Triage identified “blockers” and take initiative to remove them
• Coach Product Manager(s) to author well-constructed initial epics and user stories that meet a formalized “definition of ready”
• Assist the team to break…