Delivery Lead

About You

• You want to make tomorrow better than today.
• You have a passion for high-speed security and you care about risk management over compliance.
• You believe the biggest vulnerability in any system is time. You live to securely reduce cycle time.
• You enjoy daily decision making and real product delivery.
• You help ensure project success and client satisfaction.
• You enjoy collaborative teams, pairing with team members, and inviting your clients to participate.
• You like to work alongside, and learn from, lean and agile leaders.
• You are a creative problem solver who is comfortable with uncertainty.
• You’re a curious and keen learner who thrives on enhancing your (and our) practices and knowledge.

As a Delivery Lead at Rise8, you will:

Own end-to-end delivery and portfolio-level outcomes for the collective of projects in your domain. You will set the delivery standard, partner tightly with senior customers and a Customer Success Manager, and translate portfolio vision into outcome-oriented roadmaps that drive production impact. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role that combines performance management ownership, people leadership/inspiration/accountability, stakeholder management, and rigorous delivery execution.

• Set the standard for A-Player, delivery-accountable leadership across the portfolio.
• Create portfolio vision & outcome-oriented roadmap directly with senior-level customers, supported with a Customer Success Manager.
• Ensure portfolio roadmaps integrate and trace to team-level roadmaps; enable decision points that maximize outcomes in production.
• Track daily progress across teams and maintain transparent reporting of key delivery metrics to leadership.
• Own allocation decisions to optimize team and portfolio outcomes.
• Manage performance for Risers in the portfolio: coach, assess, and make employment decisions when necessary.
• Identify training gaps and radiate needs to the Enablement department; partner with Enablement on remediation and ramp plans.
• Source cross-functional support from other Rise8 departments to remediate portfolio issues.
• Surface and escalate risks and “yellow flags” early and without hesitation.
• Facilitate governance cadence (portfolio reviews, release planning, executive briefings).
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery practices, gitops tooling hygiene , and measurement.
• Lead and inspire your teams to delivery success; figuring out what makes them tick and aligning incentives to excite the teams’ performance, down to each Riser as applicable.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of hands-on delivery/program leadership for software development teams, with a track record of owning delivery outcomes and budgets.
• Demonstrated experience building and managing portfolio- or program-level outcome roadmaps that map to team-level plans.
• Strong budget literacy: forecasting, variance analysis, and investment/divestment recommendations.
• Proven stakeholder management at senior customer levels and experience partnering with Customer Success Managers.
• Experience with Agile/Lean delivery practices and common tooling (GitLab/Jira/Confluence) and metrics-driven delivery (lead time, cycle time, deployment frequency, throughput).
• Demonstrated people leadership: performance management, allocation decisions, coaching, and hiring input.
• Excellent written and verbal communication — comfortable briefing executives and program offices.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving remote environment and managing ambiguity.
• U.S. citizen or eligible to obtain required clearance; willing to be clearable for DoD Secret.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior military or federal civilian program experience (understanding defense sector stakeholder structures and procurement) — strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with CUI handling, DD254 execution, CMMC L2, and NIST SP 800-171 controls.
• Experience with CI/CD, cloud-native deployments, and observability/telemetry tooling.
• Prior experience managing multiple delivery teams or a delivery portfolio.
• Security clearance (active Secret or higher) is a plus.
• Certifications such as PMP, SAFe, or equivalent delivery/PMO credentials.

Salary

The annual salary range for this role as it is posted is $190,000 to $225,000 regardless of final candidate location within the United States. The final job level and annual salary will be determined based on the education, qualification, knowledge, skills, ability, and experience of the final candidate(s), and calibrated against relevant market data and internal team equity.

Benefits

• Flexible schedule in a 100% distributed workforce.
• Premium Insurance: We cover up to 100% of the employee premium and up to 80% of the combined dependent premium on our base health plan, depending on pay band. We also cover 100% of the premium for employee and dependent Dental and Vision as well as employee premiums for Life and Disability coverage.
• Retirement: 401k match at 10% gross pay.
• Paid time off (PTO): 4 weeks combined accrued vacation and sick leave, 11 Federal holidays, your birthday, jury duty, and bereavement.
• Education & Training: Accrued budget of up to $3,500 per year for classes, travel, events, and materials.
• Home Office and Merch: We offer $750 per year for home office technology and equipment as well as $100 per year for Rise8 merch from our Swag Store.
• Wellness Budget: To encourage and support a well-rounded healthy lifestyle, we cover 100% reimbursement on a variety of wellness activities and products, up to $500 per calendar year.
• Rise8 is part of the Life Time Corporate Partner program. In lieu of your $500 annual wellness benefit, you can instead get a $75 monthly credit towards a Life Time membership ($900 annual benefit).
• Equipment: We offer a MacBook Pro.