Agile Delivery Lead – Americas, Freelance Contract

Human Made

Agile Delivery Lead delivering WordPress-based projects for enterprise clients in the Americas region. Supporting dynamic teams with an emphasis on efficient and transparent delivery processes.

Posted 4/27/2026contractRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptPHPWordPress

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Reports to Global Delivery Lead
Project Delivery and Team Effectiveness
Support the Americas region on a freelance or fixed-term contract basis
Commitment to a 6 month contract
Integrate as part of the team, joining team meetings and activities
Balance project delivery with strategic team leadership
Guide distributed teams to deliver exceptional WordPress-based projects for enterprise clients
Ensure delivery processes are efficient, transparent, and continuously improving
Key role in client engagement, delivery planning, and cross-functional collaboration
Collaborate with Engineering and Commercial teams to ensure smooth running of projects
Anticipate and identify problems and addressing them or escalating as necessary
Manage each project's scope and timeline
Create and maintain a team culture for successful delivery
Prepare and facilitate workshops to establish project needs and relationships
Facilitate meetings to monitor project progress and resolve team issues
Assess time and financial impacts of scope change and communicate to stakeholders
Identify risks and mitigation strategies
Build a partnership relationship with clients and understand their business imperatives

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

Gain experience working in an agency, without a long term commitment
Competitive 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

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Hard Skills & Tools

ScrumAgile principlesWordPressPHPHTMLHTML5CSSJavaScriptversion control systemsproject management

Soft Skills

servant leadershipnegotiationfacilitationsituational awarenessconflict resolutionpromoting transparencyadaptabilitystrategic mindsetcommunicationteam alignment

Certifications

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)Professional Scrum Master (PSM II)