Overview
Responsibilities:
- Drive multiple simultaneous projects from start to finish and deliver value to our end customers
- Perform Scrum Master duties including facilitating sprint planning, standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives and release planning
- Provide cross-functional visibility into status, resourcing needs, granular requirements, dates and escalations for projects
- Demonstrate stellar stakeholder management and executive presentation skills
- Create and enforce cross-functional accountability across all business and technical groups & levels using soft and hard levers
- Collaborate with colleagues within our TPMO and across all other functions
- Apply your hard-earned experience - battle scars and all - to creatively solve for the desired shared outcome each and every day
- Make the most of your chops to work with technical and not-so-technical counterparts
- Use a variety of tools like JIRA, Confluence and Google Apps
- Lead and inspire your team and contribute to our company culture
Required Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience working as a technical project manager, leading medium to large software development projects
- Project management, Agile development, process improvement/quality certifications are (e.g. PMP, CSM, Lean or Six Sigma)
- You have direct experience using Agile methodologies for managing projects and coaching teams
- Self-motivated. You have superior organizational skills, integrity and great follow-through on tasks. You don't get overwhelmed easily
- Persistent. When you take something on, you don't drop it, you are slightly obsessive about grinding away at issues.
- Communicative. Your team is always informed and on the same page of what's happening when
- Fun. You're a charismatic people person who can talk to anyone; you're flexible, fearless, and excited to help build something great
- Pragmatic. You understand the benefits and downfalls of Agile, and other methodologies, you know what to apply for each situation
- Positive. You bring a positive attitude to the table and you know how to motivate your team to stay positive during challenging situations
- Intuitive. You have a great intuition that helps you make decisions and know the right next steps to solve challenging problems
- Data-driven. You can collect the data you need to make informed decisions quickly
- Scrappy. You have an innate and entrepreneurial drive to get things done in a fast-moving environment where things can and often do change rapidly, priorities compete, and you may not always have all of the details up front
- A team player. You're willing to help out wherever needed
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Business, Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent
- Admin level proficiency and experience with JIRA is a huge plus
- Background managing web, mobile and front-end development projects preferred
