Technical Delivery Manager

Job Description

Technical Delivery Manager

NextGen Coding Company

Location: United States (Remote)

Compensation: $30/hour, plus a quarterly bonus of 5% of earnings when 90%+ of milestones are delivered on time

Engagement: 1099 contract, 5–10 hours/week to start, growing to 20–40 hours/week as we add clients

Commitment: Seeking a long-term engagement (12+ months). The first 30 days are a paid trial period.

NextGen Coding Company builds custom software, AI systems, automation tools, and enterprise platforms for clients in financial services, healthcare, compliance technology, and operations.

We’re hiring a Technical Delivery Manager to own client project delivery end to end. This is an ownership role, not a coordination role. You’ll be accountable for every project hitting its dates. You’ll understand the technical work well enough to know when an estimate is wrong or a blocker is real. And you’ll run delivery without leadership chasing you, sitting in your meetings, or checking your board.

If you’re the person who notices a deadline slipping two weeks before anyone else, and fixes it before the client finds out, keep reading.

What You’ll Own

Deadlines

• Build realistic delivery plans with engineering and commit to them
• Track progress daily, catch slippage early, and act on it (re-sequence work, cut scope, add resources) before a date is missed
• Escalate only with context, options, and a recommendation, never with just a problem

Clients

• Run weekly client meetings and serve as the client’s primary point of contact
• Translate technical progress, risks, and tradeoffs into plain language
• Manage scope: catch change requests, get them estimated, and get client sign-off on timeline and cost before work starts

Engineering Execution

• Break features into well-defined Jira tickets with clear acceptance criteria
• Understand architecture, APIs, integrations, and deployments well enough to ask the right questions and challenge estimates
• Coordinate engineers, QA, and design across multiple concurrent projects
• Make sure releases are tested and production-ready

Process

• Keep project tracking accurate and current so anyone can see status without asking
• Run short, purposeful meetings and default to written, async communication
• Keep improving how we deliver through templates, checklists, and release processes

Your Authority

You won’t need approval to:

• Assign and re-prioritize engineering tasks within a project
• Re-sequence work to protect a deadline
• Send timeline updates to clients
• Push back on unclear requirements or unrealistic estimates

Bring leadership in for scope changes that affect cost, timeline shifts of more than one week, staffing changes, or anything contractual.

Communication Standards

• Written status update to every client by end of day Friday
• One-page weekly summary to leadership covering every project: status, risks, and decisions needed
• Responses to client and team messages within 4 business hours on weekdays
• Biweekly timesheets and invoices, with hours logged by project

Requirements

• 4+ years in delivery management, technical project or program management, or engineering management at a software agency, consultancy, or product company
• A technical foundation from engineering, QA, or technical PM work done close to the code. You should be comfortable reading a pull request, discussing an API contract, or following a deployment pipeline.
• A track record of on-time delivery across multiple concurrent client projects, with specific examples you can share
• Experience managing U.S. clients directly
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Strong working knowledge of Jira or similar tools
• Availability for client meetings during U.S. Eastern business hours
• Based in the U.S. and able to work as a 1099 contractor (W-9 required). We cannot engage through OPT, W-8, or visa sponsorship.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on software engineering experience
• AI/ML, data, or cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) project experience
• Fintech, healthcare, or compliance industry experience

Team & Tools

• You’ll work with 10 engineers plus QA and design across 5–10 active client projects
• Tools: Jira, Slack, GitHub, Google Workspace
• Reports to the CEO

What Success Looks Like

• 30 days: You’ve taken over all active projects, met every client, and every project has an accurate plan and an up-to-date board
• 60 days: Weekly updates go out on time without reminders, and risks are flagged early with proposed solutions
• 90 days: Projects are hitting milestones, and leadership involvement in day-to-day delivery is close to zero
• Ongoing: 90%+ of milestones delivered on schedule, with no deadline surprises for clients or leadership

Growth

• Hours expected to grow to 20–40/week as we add clients
• Rate review after 6 months, based on delivery performance

Hiring Process

1. Application (see below)
2. 30-minute video call
3. Paid work sample (about 2 hours): we’ll give you a sample project brief and status snapshot, and you’ll write a delivery plan and a client update
4. Reference checks, including at least one engineer or client you’ve worked with
5. 30-day paid trial

How to Apply

With your application, include a few sentences about a project that was falling behind and exactly what you did about it. Applications without this won’t be reviewed.

Additional Details

• NDA required. Some client work involves sensitive financial or healthcare data.
• Contractors provide their own equipment.

NextGen Coding Company considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic.