Delivery Lead - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt : Job Details

**Delivery Lead**

**Location:** Orlando, FL, US, 32819 The Professional Services team is focused on reimagining traditional teacher development and creating delightful, meaningful, and actionable learning experiences for teachers. The Delivery Lead will plan for and support all aspects of production for online professional services content, from definition of project and components to delivery of structured content to engineering or field teams. **Job Requisition ID:** 17247

**Additional Locations:**

**Primary Responsibilities:**

* Act as Scrum Master, helping to ensure that backlogs are kept up-to-date and user stories are groomed and ready for development.

* Coordinate, attend, and facilitate sprint events: sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Listen and proactively coordinate between scrum teams when there are opportunities for additional collaboration and synergy.

* Submit Statements of Work (SOWs) for contract requests based on needs of developers. Re-forecast as scope and specifications change.

* Prepare files and metadata for final production readiness. Review files and bug reports, resolving queries throughout the production process, including interactivity, layout, art, and text issues in production. Assist with archiving final files per production process.

* As needed, make interaction, text, and layout corrections directly into application files or collaborate with developers to address issues. QA files prior to transmission to ensure compliance with Style Guide and our end-user requirements.

* Offer recommendations to improve efficiencies in our agile and lean development processes.

**Must Have:**

* Bachelors Degree or higher

* 2 years in a Scrum Master/Delivery Lead role for digital content or software required, 5 years preferred

* Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

**Knowledge and Skills** (General and Technical):

* Thorough understanding of principles of digital content production

* Excellent communication and organizational skills

* Ability to work in a fast-paced environment under tight deadlines

* Expertise in Smartsheet and JIRA

* Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including track changes function in Word and PDF, as well as scheduling and calculating functions in Excel.

* Familiarity with Articulate 360 authoring tool.

* Familiarity with educational publishing styles, designs, and layouts.

**Physical Requirements**

* Might be in a stationary position for a considerable time (sitting and/or standing).

* The person in this position needs to move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.

* Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.

* Must be able to collaborate with colleagues via face to face, conference calls, and online meetings.

**Benefits and Salary Range:**

Salary Range - $56,000 - $70,000

Benefits - See Career Page **-**

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ:HMHC) is a global learning company dedicated to changing peoples lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. As a leading provider of pre-K12 education content, services, and cutting-edge technology solutions across a variety of media, HMH enables learning in a changing landscape. HMH is uniquely positioned to create engaging and effective educational content and experiences from early childhood to beyond the classroom. HMH serves more than 50 million students in over 150 countries worldwide, while its award-winning children's books, novels, non-fiction, and reference titles are enjoyed by readers throughout the world.

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**PLEASE NOTE:**

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an equal employment opportunity employer and participates in E-Verify. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

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