Product Owner - Delivery Manager - Lyon - 24 Months Freelance - English - French H/F - Sweet IT

What they need

Responsibilities and missions

Within Delivery, we are looking for a Delivery Manager. Your role will be to Ensuring seamless, predictable, and transparent product delivery at the domain level (multi-squad) by orchestrating execution, managing dependencies, and mitigating risks. Uphold delivery discipline-covering cadence, standards, and quality gates-to enable Product Managers and Squad Engineers to remain fully focused on value creation rather than process management.

Your missions will consist of, among other things:

• Orchestrate multi-squad delivery execution by managing sequencing, coordination, and milestone synchronization.

• Manage and resolve intra- and cross-domain dependencies, including platform enablers such as SDKs, CI/CD, and APIs.

• Proactively mitigate risks, ensuring timely escalation and securing critical decisions to keep projects on track.

• Drive delivery discipline through rigorous cadence management and dual-track execution (discovery + delivery).

• Establish governance visibility via reliable dashboards and status reporting for VRO and stakeholder reviews.

• Guarantee release quality by enforcing readiness criteria, quality gates, and alignment with QA practices.

• Optimize delivery systems by refining playbooks, standards, and ways of working to reduce friction.

• Align portfolio releases in collaboration with Product Directors and cross-functional leadership.

Tech Stack

• Working for hyper-popular apps present in multiple European countries

• Innovating and being confronted daily with technical challenges

• Being proactive and a problem solver

• Participating in tech and product events all over Europe

• Being at the heart of developing flagship products and technologies

Profile required:

Hard Skills

• Orchestration & Planning: Designing delivery plans, release/sprint milestones, and sequencing through dedicated Alignment rituals.

• Dependency Management: Mapping multi-squad and cross-domain dependencies, establishing SLAs, and facilitating trade-offs and enabler coordination.

• Risk & Blocker Mitigation: Early detection and actionable tracking via risk dashboards, coupled with a disciplined escalation process.

• Agile Facilitation: Driving flow discipline and continuous improvement within a dual-track (Discovery/Delivery) framework.

• Quality & Release Readiness: Enforcing DoD, quality gates, and readiness reviews to secure "go/no-go" decisions in collaboration with QA.

• Governance & Reporting: Providing high-level inputs for VRO and portfolio alignment, ensuring all trade-offs are documented and transparent.

• Tooling Mastery: Advanced use of Jira, TargetProcess, and Airtable for end-to-end dependency and risk tracking.

• Technical Fluency: Navigating CI/CD, integration risks, and API platforms to bridge the gap between Engineering, QA, and Platform teams.

Soft Skills

• High Ownership & Resilience: Demonstrating calm under pressure and exercising sound judgment in escalation paths.

• Proactive Communication: Delivering transparent, concise, and "decision-ready" insights to stakeholders.

• Facilitation & Conflict Resolution: Navigating complex trade-offs and priorities while managing cross-team tensions.

• Execution Focus: Reducing friction and streamlining processes to ensure squads remain focused on high-value delivery.

• Pragmatic Rigor: Upholding high standards and operational discipline without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy.

• Continuous Improvement Mindset: Committed to learning, documenting, and evolving the delivery system.

Profile wanted

• English

• Leadership

• 50% remote, 24 to 36 months

• Based in Lyon