Delivery Manager

About Lifecheq

Lifecheq is a leading financial technology company that partners with distribution businesses and product providers to deliver holistic, advice-led solutions to end consumers. It operates the largest digital financial advice platform in South Africa, with over 7,000 advisers onboarded, and is currently expanding through strategic partnerships across Africa and Southeast Asia.

About the Role

We are looking for a highly capable Delivery Manager to join our fast-paced fintech environment. This role is critical in driving end-to-end delivery of technology initiatives, ensuring alignment across product managers, business stakeholders, and external partners.

You will be responsible for overseeing the execution of projects that involve adding new products to our stack, API integrations, platform enhancements, and overseeing execution on key strategic partnerships. This includes driving go-to-market strategies and coordinating legal and operational readiness.

While a formal engineering qualification is not required, a deep technical understanding — particularly of APIs, system integrations, and software development life cycles — is essential. The ideal candidate is someone who thrives in a scaling environment and brings both operational discipline and adaptability to dynamic priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Delivery Ownership: Own and manage the delivery roadmap across one or more product squads, ensuring initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with strategic goals.
• Cross-Squad Coordination: Manage interdependencies across squads and ensure efficient collaboration between internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Project Execution: Translate the product roadmap into actionable delivery plans, implement and manage delivery frameworks, and ensure timely identification and execution of external dependencies.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineers, QA, Legal, Compliance, Dev Ops, Key