Director / AVP, Delivery Enablement, Operations & Excellence

League Inc.

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

League is seeking a Director / AVP, Delivery Enablement, Operations & Excellence to build and lead a new function responsible for delivery infrastructure, governance, operational excellence, and organizational transformation across the entire Delivery organization. This is a senior leadership and transformation role. You will own the systems, standards, and capabilities that enable League’s delivery teams to operate with consistency, predictability, and quality at scale. Your mandate spans four interconnected pillars: Delivery Enablement (methodology, training, knowledge management, and tooling), Delivery Operations (capacity planning, utilization, metrics, quality assurance, and vendor/offshore excellence), Financial Performance (delivery P&L, margin analysis, and resource supply/demand modeling), and Excellence & Transformation (talent development, competency frameworks, Centers of Excellence, and strategic transformation programs). You will take League’s delivery organization from reliance on individual heroics to a systematic, scalable, and repeatable operating model. This requires building a dedicated team from scratch, defining the standard delivery playbook, and driving organization-wide adoption through deliberate change management. The role has a direct and measurable impact on League’s margin improvement trajectory from 15% to 25%. Reporting to the Chief Delivery Officer with a dotted line to the CTO for technical standards, you will sit on the Executive Delivery Council alongside the VP Program Management, SVP Solutions Engineering & Delivery, VP, Client Solutions and SVP Member & Employer Services. You will also lead the Delivery Operations Review and Talent & Development Council governance forums.

Requirements

10+ years in delivery operations, program management, or engineering operations within a SaaS or digital platform environment, with progressive leadership responsibility.
Proven track record building delivery organizations “from chaos to order”—demonstrated success standing up new functions, defining standard operating models, and driving large-scale process transformation and adoption.
P&L management experience: ownership of or significant contribution to delivery financial performance, margin analysis, and resource planning.
Proven experience working closely with Software Engineering teams and credibly engaging with technical audiences on architecture, SDLC, and tooling decisions.
Experience operating in complex, multi-client or multi-workstream environments with both onshore and offshore delivery teams.
Enablement and training experience: ability to build and deliver scalable training materials, onboarding programs, and certification curricula.
Organizational change management expertise with demonstrated success driving adoption across cross-functional teams at scale.
Experience building and managing high-performing teams as well as coordinating matrixed resources across multiple functions.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in digital health, health tech, or highly regulated environments is a strong asset.

Responsibilities

Define, implement, and continuously refine the Standard Delivery Playbook covering the end-to-end delivery lifecycle from discovery through deployment and post-implementation optimization.
Establish scalable intake, planning, estimation, and release governance processes.
Drive consistency in Agile practices, sprint hygiene, dependency management, and release readiness across all delivery teams.
Develop playbooks, templates, checklists, and documentation to enable repeatable execution across squads, client programs, and external partners.
Own onboarding and continuous training programs for all delivery staff including engineers, project managers, product managers, designers, and QA testers.
Develop and deliver role-based training on product and business context, scoping and discovery, technical standards, project management methodology, and client communications.
Build a tiered certification program (Associate, Professional, Expert) to formalize competency development across the delivery organization.
Reduce time-to-productivity for new hires (target: 30 days to 60% productivity).
Extend enablement programs to SI partners and Developer Program customers to ensure consistent operational standards.
Own the standard Jira process: define the desired workflow, then configure the tool to match delivery needs. Drive 100% adoption.
Build and maintain a centralized platform knowledge repository organized by audience (engineer, PM, customer developer) with tiered content.
Own and maintain shared code libraries and design component libraries to promote reusability and consistency.
Drive adoption of AI tooling and workflows within the delivery organization; develop an AI-native delivery framework.
Establish and manage a formal operating agreement with R&D covering platform documentation, dedicated SME access, and release readiness commitments.
Translate R&D documentation into delivery-focused training materials and maintain feedback loops on common implementation challenges.
Implement a Release Enablement gate in the R&D release process ensuring training materials, documentation, team briefings, and customer communications are ready before GA.
Own resource capacity planning and allocation across the delivery organization.
Manage utilization and billability targets (target: 75%+ sustainable utilization with quality maintained).
Identify systemic bottlenecks impacting velocity, throughput, or quality and implement structural improvements.
Drive resource supply/demand modeling to support pipeline forecasting and hiring decisions.
Establish clear delivery health indicators and stage-gate governance where appropriate.
Standardize release readiness criteria and go-live controls.
Conduct delivery audits to ensure process compliance and identify improvement opportunities.
Lead post-implementation retrospectives and systemic improvement loops.
Own offshore/nearshore operations excellence and vendor management for delivery partners.
Define and maintain standardized reporting dashboards for leadership visibility into delivery health, risks, and trade-offs.
Develop executive-ready reporting for the CDO and senior leadership team, including Board-level materials.
Improve traceability from business requirements to engineering execution and drive automation of reporting.
Support strategic planning by surfacing trends across squads and initiatives.
Own delivery P&L management and forecasting in partnership with Finance.
Conduct project margin analysis and drive optimization initiatives toward the 25% target.
Quantify expected impact of enablement initiatives on utilization efficiency, rework reduction, and delivery velocity.
Support commercial model development, pricing discipline, and cost management.
Develop delivery competency frameworks and career pathing for all delivery roles.
Partner with VPs and SVPs on hiring plans, performance management, and team capability building.
Lead the Talent & Development Council governance forum with all Delivery VPs.
Drive employee engagement and retention within the delivery organization.
Own the strategic transformation program to move the delivery organization from current state to target operating model.
Establish and evolve Centers of Excellence for specialized domains.
Manage Board reporting and strategic communications related to delivery transformation progress.
Design and execute a change management strategy (ADKAR framework) to drive adoption of new processes and standards.
Build a coalition of champions across Engineering, PM, Design, and QA to evangelize new approaches.
Implement a graduated adoption approach—voluntary to strongly encouraged to mandatory—with documented exceptions.
New customer implementation methodology development.
Onboarding playbooks and acceleration frameworks.
Commercial delivery strategy including packaging/pricing models and service catalog development.
Partner ecosystem development for delivery models.