Human Made

Agile Delivery Lead – EMEA, Freelance Contract

Human Made

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Bulgaria

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

JavaScriptPHPWordPress

About the role

  • Agile Delivery Lead
  • Reports to: Global Delivery Lead
  • Primary Focus: Project Delivery and Team Effectiveness
  • This is a remote position and is open to applications based within EMEA, (timezone within ** 4h of UTC+1)
  • Support our EMEA region on a freelance or fixed-term contract basis. The successful candidate must be able to commit to an 8 month contract.
  • As an Agile Delivery Lead, you’ll balance project delivery with strategic team leadership, guiding distributed teams to deliver exceptional WordPress-based projects for enterprise clients.
  • Have a thorough understanding of scrum/agile concepts, ensuring that delivery processes are efficient, transparent, and continuously improving.
  • Play a key role in client engagement, delivery planning, and cross-functional collaboration, aligning business needs with agile principles.
  • Work closely with other discipline leads to create a culture of trust, empowerment, and continuous improvement.
  • Confidently collaborate with Engineering and Commercial teams to ensure smooth running of your projects and the squad.
  • Anticipate and identify problems as they arise, addressing them or escalating to the relevant discipline lead when necessary.

Requirements

  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM I/II) or similar qualifications desirable
  • Experience in a scrum master / agile delivery role
  • Thrives in dynamic, multi, project environments, with the ability to adapt quickly and context switch effectively while keeping delivery goals and team alignment in focus.
  • Experience applying scrum, a wider awareness of agile principles, and a data driven mindset
  • Experience working in an enterprise agency environment and/or hands-on expertise with Scrum practices
  • Strong skills in servant leadership, negotiation, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, and promoting transparency, including the ability to negotiate and adapt project scope in response to change.
  • A strategic and driven mindset
  • Experience in using a wide range of project management tools such as, budget/time tracking tools and issue tracking software with the depth of knowledge to recommend the right tools for a project. (e.g., Jira, Trello, Confluence, Operating)
  • Strong written and oral communication and ability to communicate technical concepts
  • We work in English, so excellent written and spoken English is essential.
  • Knowledge of web technologies (e.g., WordPress, PHP, HTML/HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, version control systems) and hosting/deployment best practices.
Benefits
  • Gain experience working in an agency, without a long term commitment
  • Competitive Day Rates
  • Work alongside some of the WordPress industry’s top engineers
  • Access to Slack channels which will open up plenty of opportunities to network with other WordPress peers at Human Made
  • The opportunity to explore Human Made with the potential of becoming a full-time employee
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
scrumagileWordPressPHPHTMLHTML5CSSJavaScriptversion control systemsdata driven mindset
Soft Skills
servant leadershipnegotiationfacilitationsituational awarenessconflict resolutionpromoting transparencystrategic mindsetadaptabilitycommunicationteam alignment
Certifications
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)Professional Scrum Master (PSM II)