Remote Agile Project Lead - Delivery, Strategy & Coaching

MediaNews Group; Massachusetts; A distancia; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Descripción de la vacante

MediaNews Group seeks an experienced Project Manager to guide agile teams through product development, balancing scope, schedule, and cost. You will serve as a servant leader, coaching the team and ensuring adherence to the SDLC and agile ceremonies.

Based in a remote role with residency in MA or neighboring states, you will coordinate planning, risk management, and stakeholder communications across the program. This role emphasizes collaboration and continuous improvement.

Formación

• 2+ years of agile project management experience.
• PMP or CSM certification preferred.
• Experience leading scrum teams.
• Knowledge of SDLC practices.
• Experience in digital media is preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Apply agile and occasional waterfall methodologies to initiatives from idea to launch and beyond, ensuring alignment with SDLC standards and company strategy.
• 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 work to resolve blockers to completion.
• Contribute to quarterly planning, Scrum of Scrums, all other agile ceremonies, and the project management community of practice.
• Lead by facilitation using standard scrum and scaled agile methodologies.
• Enforce the priorities of the work to be performed; obtain product manager and client sign-off on key project deliverables.
• Conduct post-project reviews, lessons-learned discussions, and retrospectives.
• Draft and create project archives and process improvement plans based on lessons learned and retrospectives; Add project documentation to the repository for use in future projects.
• Project management platform familiarity (Jira, Trello, Asana, etc.)

Conocimientos

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Project management

Risk management

SDLC knowledge

Digital media experience

Remote collaboration

Herramientas

Jira

Trello

Asana

Descripción del empleo

MediaNews Group seeks an experienced Project Manager to guide agile teams through product development, balancing scope, schedule, and cost. You will serve as a servant leader, coaching the team and ensuring adherence to the SDLC and agile ceremonies.

Based in a remote role with residency in MA or neighboring states, you will coordinate planning, risk management, and stakeholder communications across the program. This role emphasizes collaboration and continuous improvement.