Product Delivery Manager

• People Management: Lead and support your team through regular one-to-ones, performance management, engagement and employee wellbeing.
• Career Development & Coaching: Support individual growth through development plans, career conversations, performance reviews and ongoing professional coaching.
• Collaboration with Principal Engineers: Work closely with the Principal Engineers to ensure that performance and development discussions reflect both delivery contribution and technical growth.

• Delivery Facilitation: Facilitate the team’s recurring delivery routines, including regular stand-ups and team syncs, backlog refinement, retrospectives and planning discussions. Ensure that priorities, estimates, dependencies and capacity are visible and understood.
• Pragmatic Process Improvement: Improve our hybrid delivery model by identifying bottlenecks, clarifying ownership and introducing practices that improve flow and predictability.
• Workflow and Tooling: Maintain the operational configuration and integrity of Jira, ensuring that workflows and reporting provide a reliable view of work in progress.
• Input and Output Quality: Help ensure that requirements, dependencies and technical inputs are available when teams need them, and that relevant design and technical documentation remains aligned with implementation.

• Resource Forecasting: Build a reliable view of team capacity, planned work, operational commitments and upcoming delivery needs, using Jira and relevant time-management tools.
• Delivery Forecasting: Support realistic delivery planning by bringing together capacity, dependencies, historical throughput and known technical constraints.
• Delivery Insights: Establish useful and proportionate reporting on delivery flow, such as cycle time, throughput and work in progress, to support continuous improvement and identify systemic bottlenecks.

• Developer Experience (DX): Identify and remove administrative, process and tooling friction that makes it harder for engineers and QA professionals to do effective work.
• Continuous Improvement: Support teams in evaluating and adopting tools or practices that improve collaboration, quality and productivity.
• Modern Tooling: Encourage the thoughtful use of modern developer productivity tools, including AI-assisted development tools where they provide clear value.
• Onboarding: Improve engineering onboarding so that new colleagues can become familiar with the product, codebase, tools and ways of working more quickly.

• Delivery Coordination: Coordinate delivery dependencies across Product Management, Engineering, QA and SaaS Operations, ensuring that risks, blockers and ownership are visible.
• Delivery Readiness: Work with Product and technical stakeholders to ensure that incoming work is sufficiently clear, prioritised and supported by the necessary requirements, estimates and dependencies before implementation begins.
• Planning Partnership: Provide Product and leadership with a realistic view of capacity, delivery impact and sequencing, while Product Management retains ownership of product direction and prioritisation.

• Experience: 5+ Years of experience in software delivery, engineering management or a comparable leadership role within a product software organisation.
• People Leadership: Demonstrated experience directly managing software developers, QA professionals or comparable technical teams, including performance management, career development, coaching and employee engagement. Experience with distributed or hybrid teams is valuable.
• Technical Background – Preferred: Previous experience as a software engineer, QA professional or in another technical software role is an advantage. Candidates should in all cases be comfortable working with technical teams, understanding software-delivery challenges and engaging in discussions about dependencies, quality and technical constraints.
• Methodology Expertise: Strong understanding of agile and flow-based delivery principles, combined with the judgement to adapt practices to the needs of the team rather than applying a framework rigidly. Comfortable using Jira or comparable delivery-management tools to maintain workflow visibility, support planning and produce useful delivery insights.
• Developer Empathy & DX: Strong empathy for the day-to-day experience of software development and QA teams, with a practical focus on removing process, tooling and organisational friction. Curiosity about modern engineering and productivity tools, including the thoughtful use of AI-assisted development tools where appropriate.

• Analytical Mindset: Strong data-driven approach to capacity planning, resource forecasting, and performance metrics. Comfortable working with delivery and capacity data to support realistic planning, identify bottlenecks and improve predictability.
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to create alignment, make complex delivery issues understandable and challenge priorities or assumptions constructively.

• Full professional fluency in English is required, with additional fluency in Dutch being a significant advantage.

• A high-impact leadership role: You will have genuine ownership, autonomy and the mandate to improve how our Product Engineering organisation works. Your ideas will be heard, and you will have the opportunity to make a visible and lasting contribution.
• A pragmatic environment: We care more about outcomes than rigid methodologies. You will have the freedom to retain what works, challenge what does not and introduce improvements that genuinely help our teams.
• A global, close-knit team: Work with talented colleagues around the world who take ownership, support one another and care about delivering high-quality work.
• Trust and flexibility: Our informal culture gives you the space to do your best work without unnecessary hierarchy or micromanagement.
• Room to grow: We value initiative, curiosity and continuous improvement. As the organisation evolves, you will have opportunities to shape both the role and the way we work.
• A flexible hybrid model: Work remotely up to four days per week, with one regular office day. You are always welcome to spend more time in the office, but it is not required.
• A competitive package: We offer a competitive salary, a company car with charging card, meal vouchers, group and hospitalisation insurance, net allowances, a mobile phone subscription and additional benefits.

Ready to help our Engineering and QA teams do their best work?

Apply with your CV and a short introduction explaining what interests you about the role and how your experience could contribute to NGDATA.

We value relevant experience and potential over a perfect checklist. Even if you do not meet every preferred qualification, we encourage you to apply if you believe this role is a strong match for your background and ambitions.