Salary
💰 $164,991 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Act as the primary customer point of contact for a multi-team development effort, proactively communicating significant status updates as well as risks and impediments to delivery
- Make regular updates to a risk register and review the register with delivery teams and VA stakeholders
- Contribute to the coordination of multiple interdependent workstreams by providing input into high level project plans and Gantt charts maintained by VA program stakeholders
- Ensure that delivery teams are staffed adequately and appropriately for effective delivery, raising concerns and advocating for changes when the team is not properly staffed
- Establish strong, trust-based relationships with stakeholders while fostering an exceptional first impression of Agile Six’s culture and delivery effectiveness
- Work with teams to ensure they are creating and regularly reviewing team working agreements and norming documents
- Communicate clearly, honestly, and effectively, both with team members and with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Work with delivery teams to fulfill all reporting and contractual requirements
- Establish feedback loops, ensuring teams are aligned, responsive to input, and continuously improving delivery
- Proactively identify and remove impediments and/or guide the team to remove them, addressing complex challenges with minimal guidance
- Help the team maintain a pace of delivery that is effective for the customer and sustainable for the team within a complex environment
- Support the practice of delivery within the larger company as needed
- Responsibilities may shift and grow organically over time based on candidate strengths and delivery environment
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience as a Program Manager, Delivery Manager, and/or Project Manager
- 4+ years of experience stewarding large scale and/or multiple-team software delivery efforts
- In-depth knowledge and demonstrated application of Agile principles and practices
- Demonstrated ability to successfully lead delivery teams at Agile Six or at like minded organizations within the civic tech space
- Demonstrated ability to coach teams in Agile practices and support self-organization
- Demonstrated experience supporting newly formed teams on complex projects
- Demonstrated ability to independently remove impediments to team progress and maintain alignment and productivity across different team structures
- Demonstrated ability to build and manage complex stakeholder relationships and ensure smooth collaboration and alignment across multiple teams or organizations to ultimately ensure successful delivery
- Has lived and worked in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years
- Some clients may request or require occasional travel
- We participate in E-Verify and are unable to sponsor visas at this time