About Vonage: Vonage is a global cloud communications business that offers flexible and scalable voice, messaging, video and data capabilities across Unified Communications, Contact Centres and Communications APIs. Our mission is to drive efficiencies and build synergy across engineering, product and customer support to make customer and employees experience outstanding.

By joining Vonage’s Lean Agile Centre of Excellence, you’ll have an opportunity to shape the future of customer engagement by supporting our engineering and product teams to deliver a truly immersive platform experience.

Why this role matters

We are seeking a dynamic and pragmatic Agile Delivery Manager to join our diverse global team. As a Agile Delivery Manager, you will play a crucial role in supporting our Agile transformation. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about Agile and eager to take the next step in their career supported by an experienced Agile team.

Vonage is entering an exciting new chapter, focused on consolidating and aligning a business that has grown and diversified through acquisition. This role will be part of the Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) at Vonage. The LACE are implementing Agile at Scale across the business to help align our teams and maximize the value they deliver. This role is a chance to get real experience of driving agile transformation you won’t get from training or certification.

What you will do

As an Technical Delivery Manager at Vonage, you will drive delivery excellence through Agile transformation across the organization. Your primary focus will be enabling high-performing delivery flows and fostering a strong Agile culture within one or more teams. You will also support Release Train Engineers in planning and executing SAFe events.

• Coach and Mentor Agile Teams
  Guide teams in adopting Agile values, principles, and practices. Provide hands-on training and ongoing support to embed Agile ways of working.
  
  
• Promote Data-Driven Improvement
  Leverage metrics to help teams understand performance trends and encourage a culture of continuous improvement.
  
  
• Enable Effective Team Collaboration
  Encourage open communication and active engagement both within and across teams to strengthen collaboration.
  
  
• Remove Delivery Impediments
  Identify blockers that impact team performance, and work collaboratively to resolve them swiftly.
  
  
• Facilitate Stakeholder Alignment
  Ensure clear, consistent communication between teams and stakeholders to maintain alignment on goals, priorities, and progress.

What you will bring

• The ideal candidate must be committed to genuine Agile principles, ensuring that Scrum practices are truly effective and not just followed superficially. We are not looking for a "fluffy" Agile Delivery Manager who runs "Zombie Scrum." They should actively engage teams in meaningful Agile practices that drive real value and continuous improvement.
• A positive, pragmatic mindset is essential. You’re someone who can share real examples of outcome-driven delivery, creative problem solving, and resilience in the face of setbacks.
• Due to the international nature of the team and the business, experience working in a multicultural setting would be beneficial.

What is required for application

• Previous experience working as an Technical Delivery Manager /Agile Delivery Manager
• Practical experience with SAFe
• Strong hands-on experience with Jira (essential)
• Familiarity with Confluence
• Proven coaching and facilitation skills, with examples of workshops, training sessions, or 1:1s you’ve run

What is in it for you

• Attractive Discretionary Time Off
• Private Medical Insurance with optional dependent coverage
• Educational Assistance Reimbursement Program
• Opportunities for reimbursement for conferences, trainings, and other personal development events
• Maternity and Paternity Leave
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Why this role matters:

As a member of Vonage’s Product Delivery organization, you'll have a unique opportunity to shape the future of customer engagement. By supporting our engineering and product teams, you'll help deliver a truly immersive platform experience that revolutionizes how businesses communicate.

The Technical Delivery Manager is a pivotal role responsible for orchestrating the Agile Release Train (ART) and ensuring the smooth delivery of value across programs and portfolios. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in leading Agile transformations, managing delivery processes, and optimizing team performance using tools like Jira. This role is crucial in aligning teams, facilitating Agile ceremonies, and driving continuous improvement in a dynamic and evolving organization.

• ART delivery: You will oversee the delivery of our ART, ensuring the teams' work and PI plans align with our overall business goals.
• Stakeholders management: You will act as a central point of communication, managing stakeholder relationships and ensuring there is consistent and effective collaboration between Product Management, Engineering, and Product Delivery.
• Manage dependencies & risks: A key part of your role will be to identify, track, and help resolve dependencies and risks within the ART and with other teams.
• Drive a continuous flow of value: You will help the teams maintain a steady, unblocked flow of work by proactively identifying bottlenecks, managing the feature backlog, and ensuring features are ready for PI planning.
• Ensure strategic alignment: You'll work to connect the ART's work to our portfolio strategy, ensuring features link to approved epics and supporting stakeholders with planning and reporting.
• Utilize data for improvement: You will be responsible for tracking and visualizing our progress using Jira and other tools. This includes developing dashboards for metrics like ART predictability, delivery trends, and capacity, and using this data to drive continuous improvement and report on PI achievements.
• Facilitate key events: You'll organize and lead essential SAFe events, including PI Planning, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt workshops, ensuring clear outcomes and stakeholder alignment.
• Support & document processes: You will help align priorities with team capacity and be responsible for documenting our ways of working to ensure clarity and consistency.

• Agile delivery experience (>4 years): You have solid experience in an Agile environment, working as a Senior Scrum Master in an ART, an Agile Lead, or a RTE.
• Familiarity with SAFe: You have a good understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). A certification (like SA, RTE, or SM) is a plus, but practical experience working within a SAFe ART is just as valuable.
• Practical Agile knowledge: You possess a strong understanding of Lean/Agile principles and can apply them pragmatically to suit the team and business context.
• Jira proficiency: You are comfortable and proficient with using Jira to manage work, track progress, and create reports. Experience with Jira Align is a bonus.
• A collaborative mindset: You excel at working with cross-functional and multicultural teams and stakeholders, fostering a positive and collaborative environment to get things done.
• A drive for improvement: You are naturally curious and passionate about continuous improvement, with an eye for making processes work better for everyone.
• Adaptability: You are comfortable working in a dynamic environment where priorities can evolve, and you can adapt to change with a positive attitude.

How you’ll benefit:

• Discretionary Time Off
• Private Medical Healthcare
• Pension scheme
• Ericsson support line
• Flexible work scheme
• Multisport card
• Group life insurance

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Why this role matters:

We are seeking a dynamic and pragmatic ADM to join our diverse global team. As ADM, you will play a crucial role in supporting our Agile transformation. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about Agile and eager to take the first step in their career supported by an experienced Agile team.

Vonage is entering an exciting new chapter, focused on consolidating and aligning a business that has grown and diversified through acquisition. This role will be part of the Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) at Vonage. The LACE are implementing the Scaled Agile framework (SAFe) across the business to help align our teams and maximize the value they deliver. This role is a chance to get real experience of driving SAFe implementation you won’t get from training or certification.

Your key responsibilities:

With the support of the LACE team you will help to drive the Agile transformation across Vonage. Your role will focus specifically on introducing a strong Agile culture within one or more teams, and you will also have the opportunity to assist the Release Train Engineers with running of SAFe events.

• Train, mentor, and support teams to introduce and follow agile values, principles, and practices. 
• Use a data driven approach to help teams monitor their performance and drive a culture of continuous improvement.
• Encourage open communication and active participation within and between teams.
• Identify and address impediments that could hinder the team's progress or productivity. Collaborate to find solutions and eliminate obstacles.
• Foster effective communication between team members and  stakeholders. Ensure information flows smoothly and that everyone is aligned with the team’s goals and priorities.
• Support the Release Train Engineers with planning for and running SAFe events such as PI planning.

What you'll bring

Some experience as ADM with an awareness of one or more Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban or XP will be useful to succeed in this role. Transferable experience from different career paths is welcomed. 

The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic and open-minded and will be able to give examples of their pragmatic and outcome-driven approach. A positive and constructive attitude towards setbacks is essential for this role. The ideal candidate will be ready to give examples of their resilience and creativity when facing challenges. Due to the international nature of the team and the business, experience working in a multicultural setting would be beneficial.

Required:

• Familiarity with Agile principles and methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban and XP.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to foster teamwork and collaboration.
• Detail-oriented and highly organized, capable of maintaining accurate records and tracking progress.
• Resilience and a problem-solving mindset, with the ability to not just identify issues but help find solutions.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new processes and tools.
• Ability to inspect and adapt in a dynamic environment.

Experience we consider a plus:

• Previous experience in project management, software development, or Agile is a plus.
• There is scope for the right candidate to progress to a Release Train Engineer role in time so familiarity with SAFe would be useful.
• Familiarity with Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence).

How you’ll benefit:

• Unlimited Discretionary Time Off
• Private Medical Insurance with the option to add dependents at your own cost
• Multisport Gym Membership
• Educational Assistance Reimbursement Program
• Lunch and Learn Sessions
• Opportunity to be reimbursed for conferences, trainings, and other events consistent with the area of work aimed at personal development
• Three Paid Volunteer Days a Year
• Reimbursement for the costs of prescription glasses
• Maternity and Paternity Leave

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