About Mighty Acorn

At Mighty Acorn, we make it easier for governments to deliver world-class digital services. From renewing a fishing license to applying for unemployment benefits, we build digital services that enhance public trust and satisfaction.

Our vision is a world where “good enough for government work” returns to its pedestal: fast, reliable, and frustration-free. We achieve this by empowering people, increasing transparency, breaking down silos, and moving together toward a shared goal.

Specializing in modern software development, DevSecOps, and scalable infrastructure, we focus on leveraging automation to manage complexity, accelerate transformation, shorten feedback loops, and reduce risk to build a world where government programs run reliably, smoothly, and efficiently.

While our team averages 10+ years of experience in the industry, we are a relatively new (formed in 2023) professional services company. Our government clients engage us to improve their digital products and services in a way that ensures better outcomes for their users and stakeholders. That means our clients hire us for our expertise, which we bill our time for.

Delivery Managers at Mighty Acorn

This position is contingent, pending contract award.

At Mighty Acorn, our work sits at the intersection of technology and public service. We partner with government agencies to design new services, launch modern platforms, and modernize legacy systems that support programs relied on by millions of people.

Delivery managers play a critical role in ensuring that this work moves forward effectively. Working closely with product managers, engineers, designers, analysts, and government stakeholders, delivery managers help create clarity, maintain delivery momentum, and ensure teams can operate successfully in complex environments.

Serving as operational leaders on agile teams, delivery managers focus on coordinating work across projects and stakeholders, managing delivery risks, and maintaining visibility into progress across engagements. They help translate strategic goals into coordinated execution, ensuring teams have the structure, communication, and support needed to deliver high-impact outcomes.

Delivery managers help teams navigate complex environments where multiple stakeholders, systems, and priorities intersect. They bring strong organizational skills, proactive communication, a bias toward action, and a service-oriented mindset to help teams navigate ambiguity while maintaining forward progress.

This is a unique opportunity to join a growing consultancy and contribute to shaping how Mighty Acorn approaches delivery leadership across engagements.

On a day to day basis, you will be responsible for:

Client partnership and engagement

• Building trusted relationships: Develop strong working relationships with agency partners and cross functional stakeholders and maintain regular communication to ensure alignment and transparency.

• Maintaining situational awareness: Stay informed about priorities, risks, and developments within the client environment to anticipate challenges and support effective decision making.

• Supporting stakeholder alignment: Facilitate collaboration across teams, ensuring stakeholders remain aligned on goals, timelines, and expectations.

• Representing the team’s work: Communicate progress, blockers, and risks clearly to partners while ensuring the value of the team’s work is understood.

Delivery Coordination

• Maintaining delivery momentum: Coordinate planning and delivery activities across projects or workstreams within a client engagement.

• Managing dependencies: Track milestones, risks, and dependencies across teams to ensure work progresses smoothly.

• Facilitating team flow: Support team ceremonies such as standups, retrospectives, and planning sessions to maintain clarity and momentum around work in progress and what’s coming up next.

• Removing blockers: Proactively identify and address issues that may slow progress or disrupt team productivity.

Operational leadership

• Structuring work: Help translate high-level initiatives into organized workstreams, milestones, and deliverables.

• Resource coordination: Support staffing coordination and workload management across projects.

• Ensuring accountability: Maintain visibility into commitments and timelines to ensure the team delivers on expectations.

• Contract and delivery alignment: Track project deliverables and milestones to ensure alignment with contractual commitments.

Continuous improvement

• Improving delivery practices: Identify opportunities to improve workflows, collaboration, and delivery processes.

• Supporting team health: Foster an environment where cross-functional teams can collaborate effectively, solve problems together, and proactively give and receive feedback.

Learning and adaptation: Encourage teams to reflect, learn, and adapt their practices as projects evolve.

Qualifications:

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience managing work delivery in a similar capacity to what’s described above, specifically in highly regulated or complex industries.

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.

• Delivering results in ambiguous environments.

• An ability to ask insightful questions and embrace change, particularly about client needs and capabilities.

• Bachelor's degree.

It’d be nice if you also have

• Experience working in consulting services or government digital services.

• Experience building products and services for all users, regardless of ability, backed by knowledge of accessibility standards (Section 508 Refresh/WCAG 2.1 A and AA).

• Familiarity with the administration of popular web development technologies, third-party applications, and platforms.

• Experience with ticketing / issue management systems such as Github and Atlassian Jira / Confluence, or similar.

• Familiarity with popular productivity tools, such as Google Workspace, Slack, and Notion.

Other requirements:

• An ability to work efficiently, sometimes under tight deadlines.

• A preference for transparency and an ability to be direct and transparent in your own communication.

• An ability to adapt quickly and cope with temporarily ambiguous situations as requirements change.

• This role requires work be performed from within the contiguous United States.

• Candidates must either hold active US citizenship or a green card, and should possess work authorization that does not require any present or future visa sponsorship by Mighty Acorn Digital.

• Candidates selected for the role must pass a criminal background check prior to their start date.

• Candidates must have a fast (>100Mbps) and reliable internet connection and have a dedicated workspace with background noise at an appropriate level for audio calls.

If you don’t meet every requirement but believe you’d be great in this role, we’d love to hear from you! We’re committed to building diverse teams, and research shows that women and underrepresented groups often hesitate to apply unless they meet every qualification. Don't let that hold you back—let’s talk!