Own the priorities, resources and risks that determine how fast value ships—then make it faster, every week.
Role purpose
- Own the end‑to‑end flow of work from intake to live across Engineering/IT, Product and Go‑to‑Market.
- Reduce time‑to‑market, improve predictability and stop low‑value work by steering priorities, resources and delivery risk.
- Make economic trade‑offs visible and act on them quickly.
Job Responsibilities
- Run one lightweight, company‑wide method for intake, prioritisation and sequencing.
- Set and enforce WIP limits; rebalance capacity weekly; stand up short‑lived “surge” squads for critical launches.
- Lead a weekly delivery and risk huddle: top items, blockers, accelerators; decide to continue, pivot, pause or stop.
- Track delivery economics and value hypotheses (e.g., Cost of Delay); course‑correct fast based on evidence.
- Co‑own technical guardrails with Architecture/ICT Manager to avoid costly rework; require slim business cases covering time‑to‑market and total cost.
- Coach leaders and teams in flow, prioritisation and economic decision‑making; remove systemic bottlenecks.
- Keep a single source of truth for plans, decisions, metrics and risks (Jira/other).
- Report crisp progress and trade‑offs to the Board.
Decision rights
- Final call on sequencing and WIP limits across functions.
- Authority to reassign up to 25% of weekly capacity across teams without additional approval.
- Authority to pause/stop work that fails value or risk thresholds.
- Co‑approval (with ICT Manager/Architecture) on technology choices that materially affect time‑to‑market or total cost of ownership.
Operating cadence
- Weekly: 45‑minute Delivery & Risk Stand‑Up (top initiatives, blockers, rebalancing).
- Bi‑weekly: Delivery Risk Review (slippage, value burn‑up vs spend; go/pause/stop calls).
- Monthly: Value Review with Board reps and functional leaders to re‑rank work and confirm trade‑offs.
- Quarterly: Capacity and strategy refresh; sunset non‑performing work; double‑down on proven bets.
Metrics owned
- Flow: lead time, cycle time, throughput, predictability (P50/P85), flow efficiency, WIP.
- Economics: Cost of Delay avoided/realised, delivery cost variance, value burn‑up, pause/kill rate.
- Quality/time impact: escaped defects affecting launch timelines; rework from architectural change.
Qualifications
- 8–12+ years accelerating delivery across multiple teams (Engineering/IT and Marketing) in tech‑led firms; legaltech/fintech/wealthtech helpful.
- Demonstrable track record cutting lead time and increasing predictability using Lean/flow practices.
- Skilled in capacity modelling, dependency management and prioritisation frameworks (e.g., WSJF/RICE) adapted pragmatically.
- Comfortable operating with executives; decisive under uncertainty with clear economic reasoning.
- Excellent communication in English; crisp documentation and facilitation.
We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and provide reasonable accommodations on request (email [email protected]).
Other skills
- Commercial, systems‑level thinker; data‑driven and calmly decisive.
- Hands‑on operator who removes bottlenecks and says “stop” when economics break.
- Credible with ICT, Product and Marketing leaders; bilingual in technology and go‑to‑market.
- Builds motivation and adaptive performance without fear‑based pressure; warm, precise communicator.