A bit about us
Gamma is a leading supplier of Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS): we provide voice, data and mobile products and services to the UK, German, Spanish and Benelux business markets.
Gamma is expanding its UCaaS presence in Europe with a family of businesses focusing on digital automation, delivering Gamma-powered services to SME customers via a network of channel partners in Germany, Spain, and the Benelux region.
Who are we looking for?
Working as a key part of the Gamma Owned Products engineering team, the Product Delivery Manager is responsible for the technical delivery of one of our Gamma owned products.
The Product Delivery Manager will be responsible for the engineering squads dedicated to building their product. The role requires close collaboration with the Product Owner Manager (POM) dedicated to their product from within the Product Design and Delivery team.
The Product Delivery Manager will be integral to the teams working on the discovery phases of all future product work and will be a key player in building the product roadmap in conjunction with the Product Design and Delivery team.
The role requires the Product Delivery Manager to build a sense of ownership for their product across the development squads and a team motivated to deliver a high-quality product against the roadmap timelines.
The Product Delivery Manager will use their analytical skills and agile approaches to map requirements defined with the POM into epics and stories and delivery phases and using their agile delivery experience will drive the software development end to end.
What will you be doing day-to-day?
* Working with the POM, build and maintain product release schedules in line the 12-month product roadmap whilst also staying close to the Product Backlog to maintain a view of the long-term vision.
* Plan a work schedule to deliver against the product release schedules and manage and monitor the delivery activities throughout.
* Assist the POM with end-to-end user story mapping during the requirements phase to ensure that user journeys can be implemented as required, involving technical resource from within the team as needed.
* Working with the engineering teams, map business requirements into epics and stories with clear story definition and acceptance criteria, ensuring close involvement with the POM.
* Ensuring all epics and stories are ready in line with the development schedule
* Make the Chief Architect and Engineer, DevOps team and Solutions Architects part of the team during work scoping, planning and development
* Maintain and manage one or more Jira boards according to the team standards.
* Maintain multiple streams of development in parallel with the available development squads.
* Facilitate agile ceremonies across the development teams
* Report regularly to the Head of Engineering on delivery progress and issues and be a central point of reference for all development related to the product, communicating clearly on progress and any variations from plans.
What you’ll need
* An experienced technical leader who has run multiple engineering squads building software products with direct reports including technical squad leaders and senior engineers
* Experience in agile software delivery with an emphasis on failing fast and changing direction quickly
* Skilled in work breakdown, translating requirements from product teams into epics and stories using agile techniques such as user story mapping
* Analytical thinking around product solutions
* Experience working with product managers and UX designers in defining and refining requirements, user journeys and user interface design
* Knowledge of and experience in developing from prioritised product backlogs and contributing to the prioritisation process
* Excellent stakeholder management skills and confidence to challenge others in an appropriate way
* Ability and capacity to manage a demanding workload, handle conflicting priorities and a proven success rate of delivering high quality products, quickly and at scale
* Experience of working in an Agile environment with multi-disciplinary teams
* Experience in using tools such as Confluence, JIRA, Trello, Lucid and Microsoft 365 suite
* An understanding of various agile artefacts and ceremonies, and how to effectively work with product and technical teams within these frameworks
A few things to note
* We do not need agency support; we do all our recruitment in house.
* This role will require you to be in our Manchester office at least 2 days a week.
* Unfortunately, we can't offer visa sponsorship or relocation support for this role.