Overview
Provides end-to-end leadership across the project lifecycle — from discovery and scoping to delivery and post-launch optimisation. Balances strategic planning with practical execution: translating business goals into actionable roadmaps, aligning teams around priorities, and ensuring work ships with the right level of quality and speed.
Core Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional project planning: define scope, timelines, milestones, and success metrics.
- Coordinate engineering, product, QA, and stakeholder communication to remove blockers and keep delivery predictable.
- Manage risks and trade-offs with data-driven decisions and contingency plans.
- Ensure engineering discipline through clear acceptance criteria, quality gates, and release practices.
- Facilitate retrospectives and process improvements that raise team velocity and reliability over time.
Key Skills & Strengths
- Project & stakeholder management (roadmapping, status reporting, prioritisation)
- Agile delivery practices, sprint planning, and backlog grooming
- Risk identification, mitigation planning, and escalation management
- Strong communication: translating technical trade-offs to business stakeholders
- Coaching and mentoring teams to improve collaboration and ownership
Impact & Outcomes
- Delivered multi-team product launches with clear KPIs and post-launch measurement.
- Reduced delivery uncertainty by standardising planning rituals and introducing measurable quality gates.
- Improved cross-team throughput by removing recurrent blockers and clarifying responsibilities.