Hybrid Technical PM & Agile Coach (Cyber/Tech Ops)

Onward Search; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.

Life Insurance.

401(k) Program.

Commuter Benefit.

eLearning and Ongoing Training.

Education Reimbursement.

Job summary

Onward Search is seeking a Technical Project Manager / Agile Coach for a hybrid role in Irvine, California. You will coordinate technical delivery across cybersecurity and technology operations teams, improve planning, prioritization, and agile practices, and surface risks early.

This temporary opportunity emphasizes Jira proficiency and stakeholder collaboration. Responsibilities include maintaining Jira boards, facilitating planning ceremonies, defining priorities and acceptance criteria,

Qualifications

• Experience leading agile delivery for cybersecurity, infrastructure, platform engineering, technology operations, or similarly complex technical portfolios.
• Strong Jira administration and reporting experience, including workflows, boards, filters, dashboards, permissions, automation, and data-quality practices.
• Experience facilitating agile planning and delivery ceremonies across multiple teams and stakeholder groups.
• Experience facilitating product-management practices and coaching teams and stakeholders in agile ways of working.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, written communication, risk management, conflict-resolution, documentation, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Jira boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, and portfolio views.
• Facilitate planning sessions, backlog refinement, scrum check-ins, reviews, retrospectives, and dependency reviews.
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to define priorities, outcomes, acceptance criteria, estimates, ownership, dependencies, and target dates.
• Coach teams and stakeholders on agile practices, collaboration, role clarity, and continuous improvement.
• Track delivery progress, risks, blockers, dependencies, commitments, and improvement actions through resolution.

Skills

Agile delivery

Jira administration

Facilitation

Product management coaching

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Documentation

Organizational skills

Tools

Jira

Job description

Onward Search is seeking a Technical Project Manager / Agile Coach for a hybrid role in Irvine, California. You will coordinate technical delivery across cybersecurity and technology operations teams, improve planning, prioritization, and agile practices, and surface risks early.

This temporary opportunity emphasizes Jira proficiency and stakeholder collaboration. Responsibilities include maintaining Jira boards, facilitating planning ceremonies, defining priorities and acceptance criteria,