Agile Project Manager - Expert

Mindlance; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic investment management firm seeks an Agile Project Manager in Toronto. Responsibilities include leading data initiatives and facilitating Agile ceremonies while ensuring project delivery meets business objectives. The ideal candidate has over 7 years of experience in project management, strong proficiency with JIRA and Confluence, and excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years of successful project delivery as Project Manager or Agile Project Manager.
• Strong background in supporting multiple teams and initiatives simultaneously.
• Excellent prioritization and decision-making abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of data and analytics initiatives across teams.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and support Data Product Managers.
• Ensure effective planning and alignment across initiatives.

Skills

Project delivery

Agile methodology

Communication

Stakeholder management

Prioritization

Problem-solving

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

SharePoint

Job description

Job Title: Agile Project Manager
Location: Toronto, ON (4-5 days onsite)
Duration: 12 months

Daily Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of multiple data and analytics initiatives across several cross-functional teams in a dynamic investment management environment.
• Ensure projects meet business objectives and stakeholder expectations through effective planning, prioritization, and delivery execution.
• Establish and maintain effective project routines, facilitate, and plan ceremonies aligned with Client’s EIMF (Enterprise Initiative Management Framework), and ensure clear, concise, and timely communication and reporting across initiatives’ deliverables on Confluence, Jira, Asana, Planview to leadership and stakeholders. Monitor team progress through JIRA, creating transparency on team performance.
• Support Data Product Managers in backlog refinement, intake process, helping them prioritize work. Help the program lead manage the discovery backlog and triage new intake requests. Ensure discovery work has clear outcomes, ownership, and timelines and transitions cleanly into development.
• Facilitate key agile ceremonies, e.g. product demos, sprint planning, retrospectives, scrum of scrums to ensure alignment across the teams.
• Champion continuous improvement by identifying and addressing bottlenecks.

Must Have Skills:

• This role is in-person with option to work remotely 1 day per week. Non-negotiable.
• Proven track record of minimum 7+ years of successful project delivery as Project Manager, Program Manager or Agile Project Manager, with strong background in supporting multiple teams and initiatives simultaneously. Proven strength in building relationships, navigating matrixed environments, and influencing across diverse teams.
• Proficiency in tools as Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint.
• Excellent prioritization and decision-making abilities, with a strong focus on delivering business value.
• Proven ability to embrace diverse responsibilities, proactively step in where needed, and contribute beyond defined roles, while maintaining a strong focus on supporting team members.

• Mindlance is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to inclusive, equitable, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes, and work environment in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). We will be happy to work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process.