Senior Associate Delivery Manager
Job Description
- Experience managing multiple stakeholders and prioritizing competing priorities.
- Experience with customer advocacy, process improvement, and analytical analysis.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence and EazyBI.
- Familiarity or interest in sports betting and iGaming industry and product landscape.
- Guide projects through the software development lifecycle with maximum efficiency, transparency, and organization.
- Manage roadmap execution (new and existing feature development) and day-to-day engineering operations.
- Serve as the liaison between software engineers and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Build and maintain up-to-date tracking of roadmap commitments and align expectations.
- Act as a leader, advocate, and team member for agile development teams.
- Work with engineers to ensure tickets have thorough and accurate technical implementation notes.
- Identify and remove blockers and dependencies with other engineering teams.
- Facilitate the prioritization and sequencing of backlog items.
- Participate and contribute in regular project-centric meetings, agile and/or scrum ceremonies.
- Provide transparent reporting on project progress, risk factors, launch plans and results.
- Balance resource limitations to maintain highest-quality product standards while achieving roadmap goals.
- Identify, track and manage cross-team dependencies during project planning and development.
- Assist with the measurement of team-level Objectives & Key Results.
- Coordinate with Release Managers to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Experience working with and managing cross-functional relationships within a large, fast-paced organization.
- Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in a technical or analytical field.
- Understanding of technical terminology related to software applications & infrastructure.
- Familiarity and understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
- Experience working with Scrum/Agile is required.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
At DraftKings, AI is becoming an integral part of both our present and future, powering how work gets done today, guiding smarter decisions, and sparking bold ideas. It’s transforming how we enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and unlock new possibilities. Our teams are energized by innovation and readily embrace emerging technology. We’re not waiting for the future to arrive. We’re shaping it, one bold step at a time. To those who see AI as a driver of progress, come build the future together.
The Crown Is Yours
As a member of the Delivery Management team, your primary objective will be to guide projects through the software development lifecycle with maximum efficiency, transparency, and organization. You will be heavily involved with roadmap execution (new and existing feature development) and day-to-day engineering operations for a particular focus area. You will serve as the liaison between a team of software engineers and cross-functional stakeholders in Engineering, Product, Operations and Compliance, and other areas of the organization during the planning and execution of features, enhancements, and quality improvements. Are you passionate about ensuring projects fulfill their scope? If so, we hope you’ll join us.
What you’ll do as a Senior Associate Delivery Manager
- Build and maintain up-to-date tracking of roadmap commitments and align expectations between Product and Technology stakeholders
- Act as a leader, advocate, and team member working alongside one or more agile development teams
- Work with engineers to ensure tickets have thorough and accurate technical implementation notes
- Identify and remove blockers and dependencies with other engineering teams across the organization.
- Facilitate the prioritization and sequencing of backlog items to align with value and strategic importance
- Participate and contribute in regular project-centric meetings, agile and/or scrum ceremonies
- Provide transparent reporting on project progress, risk factors, launch plans and results
- Balance resource limitations to maintain the highest-quality product standards while also achieving quarterly roadmap goals
- Identify, track and manage cross-team dependencies during project planning and development
- Assist with the measurement of team-level Objectives & Key Results
- Coordinate with Release Managers to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and maintain expected cadence
What you'll bring
- Experience working with and managing cross-functional relationships within a large, fast-paced organization
- Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in a technical or analytical field
- Understanding of technical terminology related to software applications & infrastructure
- Experience managing multiple stakeholders and the ability to prioritize competing priorities is a strong plus
- Experience with customer advocacy, process improvement, and analytical analysis are all pluses
- Familiarity and understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
- Experience working with Scrum/Agile is required
- Experience with Jira, Confluence and EazyBI is a strong plus
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Familiarity or interest in sports betting and iGaming industry and product landscape is a strong plus
Join Our Team
We’re a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don’t worry, we’ll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role.
About Us
DraftKings Inc. (Nasdaq: DKNG) is a digital sports entertainment and gaming company. It’s simple, at DraftKings, we believe life’s more fun with skin in the game. For that reason, we’re committed to responsibly creating the world’s favorite games and betting experiences. Headquartered in Boston, with offices around the globe, we believe we can continue to define what it means to be a technology company in sports entertainment. We love what we do, and think you will too.
