Team Lead, Delivery Management

Element451 is building the AI-powered platform reshaping how colleges and universities recruit, enroll, and support their students - and delivery is how that platform reaches the institutions that run on it. This is a rare chance to lead a focused engineering team and still keep your hands in the work: own the delivery, build and grow the people, and stay close enough to the code to make real technical calls. If you became a leader because you love building and you don’t want to stop - you’ll feel at home here. The Role You’ll lead one of our delivery teams - Bolt or CRM and own what it ships. You’ll manage a team of up to eight engineers and be accountable for its delivery end to end: velocity, predictability, and quality, from planning until working software is live in production. This is deliberately a Team Lead role, not a hands-off manager role. It’s a player-coach job that flexes with team size: while the team is small, you’re expected to be genuinely hands-on — engaging in technical challenges, reviewing PRs, and joining incident response — and as the team grows toward full size, that hands-on share shifts toward leadership. The role reports into senior engineering leadership and sits a level below our Director, Engineering scope, with real ownership of a single team rather than a department. It’s also an explicitly AI-forward role. We expect you to use AI aggressivel...