Project Manager

Aditi Consulting; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Health savings accounts

10 paid days off

Bereavement leave 3 days

401(k) employer match

Life and disability insurance

Commuter benefits

Dependent care FSA

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Aditi Consulting is seeking a seasoned Agile Project Manager/Delivery Lead in the United States to facilitate ceremonies, coach teams on Agile and Scrum practices, and partner with Product Managers to decompose work in Azure DevOps. You will ensure clear user stories, acceptance criteria, estimates, and dependencies while removing blockers and elevating risks to deliver ERP capabilities.

The role demands strong facilitation, cross-functional collaboration, and a servant leadership mindset, with

Qualifications

• No degree, they must have 8+ years exp as a PM.
• Degree (preferred), they must have 5+ years exp as PM.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies across multiple teams and sprints.
• Coach teams on Agile principles and Scrum practices.
• Coordinate decomposition and prioritization in Azure DevOps to align with delivery commitments.
• Ensure user stories, acceptance criteria, estimates, and dependencies are defined.
• Remove impediments, resolve blockers, and elevate risks as needed.
• Coordinate execution across teams to drive alignment and delivery predictability.
• Support PI Planning, sprint planning, and release planning.
• Manage milestones, risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Coordinate release readiness activities and deployment planning.
• Develop and maintain Azure DevOps dashboards and reporting.

Skills

Agile ceremonies

Scrum practices

Backlog management

Stakeholder communication

Facilitation

Cross-team coordination

Azure DevOps

SAFe knowledge

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

8+ years PM experience

Tools

Azure DevOps

Teams

SharePoint

Microsoft 365

Miro

Job description

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Coach teams on Agile principles, Scrum practices, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, and technical teams to decompose and prioritize work in Azure DevOps, ensuring a healthy, execution-ready backlog aligned to delivery commitments.
• Ensure user stories, acceptance criteria, estimates, and dependencies are clearly defined and understood.
• Remove impediments, resolve blockers, and elevate risks and issues as needed.
• Coordinate execution across multiple teams and workstreams to drive alignment and delivery predictability.
• Facilitate cross-team dependency identification, management, and resolution.
• Support Program Increment (PI) Planning, sprint planning, and release planning activities.
• Manage and track project milestones, delivery commitments, risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Coordinate release readiness activities, deployment planning, and execution support across teams.
• Develop and maintain Azure DevOps dashboards, metrics, and reporting to provide visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes.
• Prepare and communicate delivery status, milestones, risks, and key decisions to stakeholders and leadership.
• Foster collaboration, accountability, and effective communication across business, product, engineering, and vendor teams.
• Drive adherence to Agile standards, delivery best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure successful delivery of ERP capabilities.

Typical Task Breakdown:

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Coach teams on Agile principles, Scrum practices, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, and technical teams to decompose and prioritize work in Azure DevOps, ensuring a healthy, execution-ready backlog aligned to delivery commitments.
• Ensure user stories, acceptance criteria, estimates, and dependencies are clearly defined and understood.
• Remove impediments, resolve blockers, and elevate risks and issues as needed.
• Coordinate execution across multiple teams and workstreams to drive alignment and delivery predictability.
• Facilitate cross-team dependency identification, management, and resolution.
• Support Program Increment (PI) Planning, sprint planning, and release planning activities.
• Manage and track project milestones, delivery commitments, risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Coordinate release readiness activities, deployment planning, and execution support across teams.
• Develop and maintain Azure DevOps dashboards, metrics, and reporting to provide visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes.
• Prepare and communicate delivery status, milestones, risks, and key decisions to stakeholders and leadership.
• Foster collaboration, accountability, and effective communication across business, product, engineering, and vendor teams.
• Drive adherence to Agile standards, delivery best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure successful delivery of ERP capabilities.

Payrate:

$62.00 - $65.00/hr

Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law.

Pay Transparency:

The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $62.00 - $65.00/hr

• medical, dental, and vision benefits
• health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment
• 10 paid days off
• 3 days paid bereavement leave
• 401(k) plan participation with employer match
• life and disability insurance
• commuter benefits
• dependent care flexible spending account
• accident insurance
• critical illness insurance
• hospital indemnity insurance
• accommodations and reimbursement for work travel
• discretionary performance or recognition bonus
• Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law

Qualifications:

• No degree, they must have 8+ years exp as a PM.
• Degree (preferred), they must have 5+ years exp as PM.

Required Technical Skills:

• Azure DevOps expertise, including backlog management, work item decomposition, sprint planning, tracking, dashboards, and reporting.
• Strong Agile and Scrum knowledge with experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and coaching teams. SAFe experience a plus.
• Project and program management experience, including milestone tracking, dependency management, RAID management, and stakeholder communications.
• Experience coordinating work across multiple teams and managing delivery against commitments.
• Technical understanding of the software product development lifecycle and digital product delivery practices.
• Proficiency with Microsoft collaboration tools, including Teams, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365.
• Miro experience (nice to have).

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication.
• Strong facilitation and meeting leadership skills.
• Relationship building and stakeholder management.
• Cross-functional collaboration.
• Servant leadership mindset.
• Conflict resolution and negotiation.
• Organizational and prioritization skills.
• Critical thinking and problem solving.
• Ability to build alignment and gain buy-in.
• Results oriented and outcome driven.