Key Facts

Remote From:

Anywhere

Full time

Expert & Leadership (>10 years)

English

Hard Skills

Other Skills

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Knowledge Transfer
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Problem Reporting
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Collaboration
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Communication
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Leadership

Roles & Responsibilities

Proven Delivery Manager experience within agile teams
Strong ability to coordinate multidisciplinary delivery
Clear communication and stakeholder-management skills
Experience managing technical delivery schedules, risks, and dependencies

Requirements:

Lead end-to-end delivery across multiple AI initiatives, ensuring milestones and outputs are met
Create and maintain delivery plans and oversee sprint ceremonies, backlog management, and iterative delivery
Coordinate designers, engineers, researchers, and data specialists to ensure clear workflows and progress
Manage risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating where needed

Olive Jar Digital

About Olive Jar Digital

Olive Jar Digital has extensive experience in building highly secure, resilient, highly available and scalable websites. We focus on user experience and only build what the end user needs and understands. We deliver our projects using the Agile methodology, in particular Scrum and Kanban. This enables us to deliver on time, on budget and focus on priorities that could shift at any moment. The consultants we engage are either people that we have worked with over the years, have been recommended based on their performance, or have been interviewed and tested by us first. With Olive Jar you get a professional, honest service where we look to build a relationship with you and support you over the years to come. We believe that in order to track the quality of performance effectively, our delivery team, the end client, and our account management team need to buy into a Continual Service Feedback and Improvement ethos. The resources we can provide include: • Full Agile Teams • Delivery Managers • Business Analysts • Technical Architects • Scrum Masters • User Experience Designers • Visual Designer • User Researchers • Developers / Developers in Test • Testers Specialties: IT Consultancy, Software Support, Software Development, Website Design, Agile Delivery, Continuous Delivery

Founded: 2018

Company size: 11 - 50

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Job description

FTC or Permanent
UK-wide, Remote

About the role
Olive Jar Digital is seeking an experienced Delivery Manager to lead multi-disciplinary teams through Discovery and Alpha phases of several AI-driven initiatives. The role will ensure successful delivery of outcomes across problem definition, prototyping, technical implementation, user research, testing, and evaluation.

You will work closely with product, engineering, data, research, and design teams to ensure high-quality, timely delivery in line with agreed milestones, governance and agile ways of working.

About Olive Jar Digital
As we grow, we empower our teams to develop their roles and functions and offer support to get you from where you are now, to where you want to be. Moving towards our 11th year, we are now an established brand, building digital products and services and championing the provision of expert talent to enhance customer and in-house teams, satisfying all user needs.

We are a professional, fun, fully Inclusive and diverse digital consultancy, valuing everyone’s opinion. With a huge growth plan over the next two years, we are looking to expand our client facing delivery team with designers, developers, and testers as we continue to expand our project portfolio.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end delivery across multiple AI initiatives, ensuring milestones and outputs are met.
Create and maintain delivery plans and oversee sprint ceremonies, backlog management, and iterative delivery.
Coordinate designers, engineers, researchers, and data specialists to ensure clear workflows and progress.
Manage risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating where needed.
Ensure deliverables meet required standards, including documentation, testing, and readiness for governance reviews.
Facilitate show-and-tells, playback sessions, and regular reporting on progress.
Oversee knowledge transfer and ensure all artefacts are properly stored and handed over.

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