Program / Project Manager

rattletech; Ventura (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

rattletech is seeking an experienced lead to bridge business stakeholders and development teams, ensuring alignment through effective communication and prioritization of backlogs. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years' experience in similar roles with a strong background in leading agile teams and managing large-scale projects.

This position requires solid leadership skills, advanced project management tool expertise, and a knack for client relationship management.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience in a similar functional role within a software development team.
• 6+ years leading agile development teams.
• Experience in managing large-scale data migration projects.

Responsibilities

• Serve as team liaison for business stakeholders.
• Break down business requirements into a consumable backlog.
• Work with clients and internal organization counterparts.

Skills

Project Management

Agile Development

Leadership

Communication

Customer Service

Education

Scrum Master Certification or Product Owner Certification or PMP Certification

Tools

Jira

Rally

TFS

Job description

The opportunity:

• Serve as team liaison for business stakeholders and become a product expert as it relates to market direction and user feedback.
• Break down business requirements into a fully consumable backlog of scope for the development team or teams.
• Prioritize backlog and interpret regular feedback from stakeholders to adjust this prioritization and scope.
• Work with client and internal organization counterparts to remove impediments for the team.
• Synchronize team activities and coordinate amongst multiple teams.
• Provide organizational oversight and escalate issues as appropriate.

This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.

What you need:

• 7+ years’ experience in a similar functional role within a software development team.
• Strong leadership skills with at least 6 years leading agile development teams.
• Experience in managing and leading custom development projects.
• Experience in managing large-scale data migration projects.
• Advanced level skills with one or more project management tools such as Rally, TFS, Jira, etc.
• Certification for either Scrum Master or Product Owner or Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
• Strong technical knowledge/awareness with 1 or more web technology stacks.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong professional services/customer services skills.
• Self‑motivated, self‑directed, and influential with customers.
• Proven ability to be prompt, dependable, trustworthy.
• Ability to quickly understand relevant business knowledge.
• Strong team leadership and management skills. Ability to lead other business analysts and project managers.
• Ability to elicit high level business requirements from stakeholders and break those down into consumable components for one or multiple development teams.
• Ability to organize and lead one or potentially multiple software development teams simultaneously.
• Solid leadership and client relationship skills, as this individual will be representing the team to the customer.
• Ability to take on manager responsibilities for all team members.
• Ability to influence client stakeholders, specifically to attain an agile development mindset.