Agile Product /Project Manager

Olberding; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Contract-to-full-time potential

Job summary

Olberding is seeking an Agile Product / Project Manager in Chicago to lead planning, delivery, and adoption of enterprise applications and workflows. You will bridge business needs with technical teams, manage backlogs, and drive measurable outcomes across multiple initiatives.

The role blends product management, project delivery, and process analysis, requiring strong facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and ability to balance long-term direction with scope and risk.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of relevant experience in product management, project management, product ownership, or Agile delivery.
• Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, digital products, or business process improvements.
• Experience managing work from discovery and requirements through delivery, adoption, and ongoing improvement.
• Strong facilitation skills, including the ability to lead workshops, engage stakeholders with different levels of technical knowledge, and drive clear decisions.
• Practical knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and the software development lifecycle, with the judgment to adapt delivery methods to the work.
• Experience creating product roadmaps, managing backlogs, and writing user stories with testable acceptance criteria.
• Ability to manage schedules, scope, dependencies, risks, and competing priorities across multiple teams.
• Experience using Jira, Azure DevOps, or comparable work management tools, along with collaborative documentation platforms.
• Sufficient technical understanding to work effectively with engineers on APIs, integrations, data flows, and application dependencies.
• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to explain tradeoffs and escalations.
• Demonstrated ownership, follow-through, and ability to influence outcomes without direct reporting authority.
• Relevant education, professional training, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and technology leaders to define business problems, outcomes, direction, and priorities.
• Lead discovery sessions and workshops to understand workflows and opportunities for improvement.
• Facilitate discussions among diverse stakeholders, capturing requirements and resolving priorities.
• Develop and maintain roadmaps, backlogs, release plans, and project schedules aligned to business objectives.
• Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process docs.
• Lead Agile ceremonies: backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily coordination, reviews, retrospectives.
• Manage scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues across concurrent initiatives using Agile or hybrid delivery.
• Coordinate delivery across configuration, development, integrations, testing, deployment.
• Hold teams and partners accountable for commitments and quality.
• Challenge unnecessary customization and scope expansion; evaluate standard platform capabilities and value.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing, training, and release communications for adoption.
• Gather feedback and analyze adoption, workflow performance, and business results for improvements.
• Provide reporting on progress, forecasts, risks, and decisions needing leadership.
• Coach teams in Agile methods, shared ownership, and continual improvement.

Skills

5+ years experience in PM/PMO/Agile

Enterprise apps deliver

Discovery to delivery

Facilitation & stakeholder management

Scrum/Kanban knowledge

Roadmaps & backlogs

Schedule/scope/risk management

Jira/Azure DevOps usage

APIs/integrations knowledge

Communication/analytical skills

Ownership & influence

Education or training

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Documentation platforms

Job description

Position:Agile Product /Project Manager

Location: Chicago, IL

Job Id:804

# of Openings:1

Agile Product / Project Manager

Position Summary

Olberding Brand Family is seeking an Agile Product / Project Manager to lead the planning, delivery, and adoption of enterprise applications, integrations, and digital workflow improvements.

This hands-on role combines product management, project delivery, and business process analysis. You will work with business stakeholders, technical teams, and external partners to identify needs, establish priorities, translate requirements into actionable backlogs, and deliver measurable business outcomes.

We are looking for an effective facilitator who brings structure to ambiguity, encourages meaningful participation, and keeps teams moving toward decisions and delivery. Success requires balancing long-term product direction with the practical management of scope, schedules, dependencies, and risk.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business and technology leaders to define business problems, desired outcomes, product direction, and delivery priorities.
• Lead discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and process workshops to understand current workflows and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Facilitate productive discussions among business users, subject-matter experts, technical teams, and external providers, drawing out requirements and resolving competing priorities.
• Develop and maintain product roadmaps, prioritized backlogs, release plans, and project schedules that connect business objectives to executable work.
• Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process documentation.
• Lead appropriate Agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily coordination, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Manage scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues across concurrent initiatives, using Agile, traditional, or hybrid delivery approaches as appropriate.
• Coordinate delivery across application configuration, software development, integrations, testing, and deployment.
• Hold internal teams and implementation partners accountable for commitments, deliverable quality, and timely resolution of issues.
• Challenge unnecessary customization and scope expansion, helping stakeholders evaluate standard platform capabilities and business value.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing, business readiness, training, and release communications to support successful adoption.
• Gather user feedback and analyze adoption, workflow performance, and business results to guide ongoing improvements.
• Provide clear reporting on progress, delivery forecasts, risks, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
• Coach teams and stakeholders in practical Agile methods, shared ownership, and continual improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Five or more years of relevant experience in product management, project management, product ownership, or Agile delivery.
• Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, digital products, or business process improvements.
• Experience managing work from discovery and requirements through delivery, adoption, and ongoing improvement.
• Strong facilitation skills, including the ability to lead workshops, engage stakeholders with different levels of technical knowledge, and drive clear decisions.
• Practical knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and the software development lifecycle, with the judgment to adapt delivery methods to the work.
• Experience creating product roadmaps, managing backlogs, and writing user stories with testable acceptance criteria.
• Ability to manage schedules, scope, dependencies, risks, and competing priorities across multiple teams.
• Experience using Jira, Azure DevOps, or comparable work management tools, along with collaborative documentation platforms.
• Sufficient technical understanding to work effectively with engineers on APIs, integrations, data flows, and application dependencies.
• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to explain tradeoffs and escal...
• Demonstrated ownership, follow-through, and ability to influence outcomes without direct reporting authority.
• Relevant education, professional training, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting ERP, CRM, workflow management, or other commercial enterprise platform implementations.
• Experience coordinating third-party software vendors, consultants, and implementation partners.
• Background in business process analysis, user research, user experience, or digital adoption.
• Experience defining success measures and using dashboards, user feedback, and operational data to evaluate results.
• Experience helping organizations establish product ownership and ongoing improvement practices.
• Certified ScrumMaster, Certified Scrum Product Owner, PMP, PMI-ACP, or a comparable credential.
• Familiarity with creative services, graphics, packaging, prepress, or production operations.

What Success Looks Like

Business priorities translate into clear, achievable delivery plans. Teams understand what they are building and why, stakeholders make timely decisions, and risks surface early. New capabilities are adopted by users and produce measurable improvements in efficiency, quality, and business performance.

This role initially is a hourly Contractor position, with the intent to transition to a full time regular employee after 3-6 months.

The Olberding Brand Family is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes individuals of diverse talents and backgrounds.

Salary range for this role as a regular employee is $110,000 - $130,000