Remote Agile Project Manager (Digital Media)

California Newspaper Partnership; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

MediaNews Group is seeking a Project Manager to drive agile product development and coach an agile team. You will lead the Scrum team, remove impediments, and ensure process adherence while balancing scope, schedule, and cost.

You will report to stakeholders and guide the project through iterations in a dynamic, high‑visibility environment. Although remote, candidates must reside in CO, FL, IL, MA, MN, OH, OK, PA, or TX.

Qualifications

• Apply agile and occasional waterfall SDLC practices from idea to launch.
• Lead all aspects of the project, including planning, execution, delivery, quality, issue tracking, and communication.
• Report progress and risks to management and project stakeholders; track risks and blockers to completion.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, execution, delivery, quality, issue tracking, and communication.
• Maintain accountability for project delivery to PMO, business owner, and stakeholders.
• Create initial project planning documents with assumptions, constraints, risks, mitigation plans, schedules, and change control strategy.
• Report progress, risks, issues, and changes; resolve blockers to completion.
• Use tracking tools to provide status and progress updates.
• Contribute to quarterly planning, Scrum of Scrums, and agile ceremonies.
• Lead by facilitation using standard scrum and scaled agile methodologies.
• Enforce priorities with product owner and stakeholders; obtain sign-off on key deliverables.
• Conduct post-project reviews and retrospectives; implement improvement plans.
• Add project documentation to repository for future projects.

Skills

Agile PM

PM Tools

Tools

Jira

Trello

Asana

Job description

MediaNews Group is seeking a Project Manager to drive agile product development and coach an agile team. You will lead the Scrum team, remove impediments, and ensure process adherence while balancing scope, schedule, and cost.

You will report to stakeholders and guide the project through iterations in a dynamic, high‑visibility environment. Although remote, candidates must reside in CO, FL, IL, MA, MN, OH, OK, PA, or TX.