Serves as project leader of standing agile teams who work across the Technology organization from development teams through all functional / shared service areas to plan, coordinate, and execute value delivery of various business and technical initiatives; manages dependencies across teams as needed for successful delivery of cross-team initiatives.
Effectively manages, plans for, and mitigates risk to projects; relentlessly tracks down resolutions to critical issues or escalates when necessary.
Works closely with product owners to ensure the team strives to achieve shared understanding of deliverables’ scope from the project / release planning level to work item level in the teams’ product backlogs. Also ensures a healthy product backlog that is continuously being refined and prioritized through collaboration with our business partners.
Coaches and guides teams on the importance of agile values and principles to build culture of self-organization, collaboration, empowerment, transparency, and how the scrum framework should be adopted in practice.

Requirements

4+ years of proven experience serving as Project Manager and/or ScrumMaster role working with agile and traditional software development life cycle models, managing large complex projects
3+ years of IT / technical experience across various roles
Familiarity with basic software development technologies and tools, as well as Agile Project Management tools such as Jira
Proficient knowledge of Agile project management practices and frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban
Must have excellent communication skills – verbal, written, and listening skills
Ability to negotiate with stakeholders of all types

Benefits

Health Insurance
Retirement Plan
Disability benefits
Paid Time Off program

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

Agile project managementScrumKanbanproject managementsoftware development life cyclerisk managementdependency managementissue resolutionproduct backlog managementcollaboration

Soft Skills

communicationnegotiationcoachingleadershipself-organizationempowermenttransparencycollaborationproblem-solvingstakeholder management