Remote Agile Program Lead

MediaNews Group; Florida; Remote; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

MediaNews Group is seeking a Project Manager to drive agile development, balancing scope, schedule, and cost while keeping stakeholders informed of progress. You will lead scrum teams and coach the organization on agile practices in a remote-capable role.

You will run projects on larger programs, facilitate SDLC standards, and collaborate with product owners and business partners to deliver value across media publications and digital services.

Qualifications

• Agile project management training and at least 2 years of experience.
• Previous project management experience.
• PMP or CSM certification preferred.
• Web technology platform knowledge preferred.
• Experience in digital media strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Apply agile and occasional waterfall methodologies and SDLC practices from idea to launch and beyond.
• Lead all aspects of the project, including planning, execution, timely delivery, functionality, quality, issue tracking, and communication.
• Maintain accountability for project delivery to the PMO, business owner, and stakeholders.
• Create initial project planning documentation, including assumptions/constraints, measures of success, quality measures, risks, mitigation plans, issues, dependencies, schedules, and change control strategy.
• Report progress, risks, and issues to management and project stakeholders; track risks, risk mitigation, known issues, change requests, and change impact in writing, and resolve blockers to completion.
• Contribute to quarterly planning, Scrum of Scrums, all agile ceremonies, and the project management community of practice.
• Lead by facilitation using standard scrum and scaled agile methodologies.
• Enforce priorities of the work with product owner, business owner, and stakeholders; obtain sign-off on key deliverables.
• Conduct post-project reviews, lessons-learned discussions, and retrospectives.
• Draft and create project archives and process improvement plans from lessons learned; add documentation to repository for future use.
• Project management platform familiarity (Jira, Trello, Asana, etc.)

Skills

Agile PM training

2+ years experience

Project management experience

PMP/CSM

Web technology knowledge

Digital media experience

Tools

Jira

Trello

Asana

Job description

MediaNews Group is seeking a Project Manager to drive agile development, balancing scope, schedule, and cost while keeping stakeholders informed of progress. You will lead scrum teams and coach the organization on agile practices in a remote-capable role.

You will run projects on larger programs, facilitate SDLC standards, and collaborate with product owners and business partners to deliver value across media publications and digital services.