Delivery Manager

👋 About the Role:

At Mindera, we're building a top-tier team, and we'd love you to join us! As a Delivery Manager with a strong technical background, you'll lead a team of developers creating solutions for a high-profile video game client. You'll be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from gathering requirements to working closely with development and business teams, ensuring seamless progress and alignment with stakeholders.

🚀 What You'll Do:

• Mentor the team, championing Agile and continuous improvement.
• Manage and help the team resolve conflicts and roadblocks.
• Keep stakeholders informed of progress and deliverables through open communication.
• Create clear reports tailored to different audiences.
• Use your technical experience to prioritize development and QA tasks based on business and customer needs.
• Manage the product backlog, user stories, project roadmap, and dependencies.
• Translate product features into detailed requirements (features, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria).
• Collaborate with development teams, architects, and stakeholders to set and communicate release schedules and scope.
• Ensure the team meets its delivery goals.
• Influence product vision definition and break it down into smaller, incremental deliverables.
• Help identify market opportunities.
• Plan and execute the entire product development lifecycle.

🎯 What We're Looking For:

• Minimum 5 years of enterprise experience supporting Agile development teams as a Product Manager, Delivery Manager, or Engineering Manager.
• Ability to coordinate schedules across multiple time zones.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Proven management skills in conflict resolution, multi-reporting, roadmap planning, and backlog management.
• A software engineering background with the ability to discuss technical topics confidently.
• Familiarity with cloud providers (AWS, GCP).
• Proven ability to analyze product use cases and requirements throughout the SDLC (architecture, development, testing, deployment). (Note: You won't be coding, but you should be comfortable participating in technical discussions and offering input from a business and client perspective.)

✨ Benefits & Perks:

We Really Care About:

• Health insurance
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays
• Profit sharing
• Annual company trip, sports, and social groups
• Training & conferences (create your own training plan)
• Childcare vouchers

Other Great Stuff:

• Choose your own laptop and peripherals
• Unlimited hotspot data (Portugal)
• Access to our amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra (optional)
• Wide variety of snacks at the offices
• Partnerships with local businesses

🏢 About Mindera:

At Mindera, we use technology to build products we're proud of, with people we love. We partner with clients to create high-performance software that impacts users and businesses worldwide. We're a lean, self-managing team that encourages risk-taking, collaboration, and open communication. We value commitment, feedback, and empathy. Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand.

🌍 Location: Hybrid (Portugal, UK, USA) – Remote work from Portugal is an option; remote work from other countries depends on location and projects. Expected travel: 0-15%, varying by project/client.