Contract Agile Delivery Manager
Location: Remote (EU-based, GMT timezone)
Department Engineering
Employment Type: Contract (B2B)
Contract Length: 6 months (with potential for extension)
About YLD:
Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay.
We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.
About the role:
As a Contract Agile Delivery Manager, you’ll play a key role in leading the successful delivery of client engagements. This role has a strong project and delivery management focus, complemented by agile leadership and coaching
You’ll operate at the intersection of client delivery, engineering teams, and third-party partners, ensuring outcomes are delivered predictably, transparently, and to a high standard. This is a hands-on consultancy role requiring confidence working with senior stakeholders and distributed teams.
You should apply if you are:
A delivery-focused professional with a strong consultancy background who combines structured project management discipline with a pragmatic, modern agile mindset
You’re comfortable owning delivery end-to-end: setting direction, managing dependencies, mitigating risks, coordinating vendors, and ensuring teams are supported to deliver high-quality software in an agile environment.
You thrive in collaborative settings, enjoy solving complex delivery problems, and are motivated by helping both clients and teams succeed.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:
Own end-to-end delivery across one or more client engagements
You’ll have the following skills and experience:
Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:
We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:
We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We also offer a remote-first working environment, with flexible working and work–life balance as standard for all employees.
YLD is a software engineering, data engineering, and product design consultancy, specialising in customer experience and disruptive technologies.
We were among the first adopters of innovative technologies like Node.js, React.js, React Native, Kubernetes, and GraphQL, which are now staples for many businesses. YLD was also an early adopter of Design Systems as a service and founded Design Systems London, a non-profit community focused on design and product.
We leave your teams and tech in a better space by curating bespoke teams of cross-functional experts in software engineering, architecture, DevOps, delivery, design, product and data science to work alongside your teams through close collaboration and, where needed, pair programming or technical training.
We drive rapid iteration towards key business objectives, vision and chosen metrics, creating a long-standing product culture and delivery capability in each piece of work.
We’ve helped companies like DAZN, The Economist, CondeNast, Trainline, NewDay, GoDaddy, and more achieve technical product excellence. As a result, we enable organisations to become their most successful by creating and nurturing a culture that embraces experimentation and learning that lasts beyond the partnership.
