Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to clients worldwide. They are seeking a Project Manager III to lead project planning and execution, ensuring teams meet their goals and timelines while promoting Agile best practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead and refine continuous planning, ensuring ongoing planning for and visibility to a rolling quarter + plan for the team/s you support
- Maintain engineering team schedules, ensuring proper resource planning and translation of estimates to key milestone dates
- Track project milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and timelines to ensure projects and programs stay on track and meet delivery timelines
- Remove obstacles that may hinder the team's progress
- Coordinate communication between different teams, departments, and stakeholders
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and PMO to manage and prioritize the product backlog
- Ensure engineers have necessary product requirements and UX designs to stay on track and meet deadlines
- Serve as the key liaison between software development teams and external stakeholders building advocacy and credibility
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog maintenance and refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Promote Agile best practices and educate team members to enhance team performance and productivity
- Support the JIRA management for teams they support and other tools as appropriate
- Provide burndown charts, velocity tracking, and other agile performance metrics to inform and resolve issues with the team and manager(s)
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, or related field
- 5+ years experience in an Agile environment with experience using Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
- Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
- Strong problem-solving skills and adaptability
- Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, and related tooling
Benefits
- Remote work
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