Remote Agile Project Manager | Scrum Lead & Delivery

MediaNews Group; Massachusetts; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; 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 an experienced Project Manager to guide an agile team through product development, ensuring adherence to SDLC and balanced scope, schedule, and cost. You will act as a servant leader, coaching the team and keeping stakeholders informed about progress and risks.

The role is remote with residency required in CO, FL, IL, MA, MN, OH, OK, PA, or TX; you will coordinate across programs and participate in agile ceremonies and Jira/Trello/Asana work streams.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Apply agile and occasional waterfall methodologies to initiatives from idea to launch and beyond, aligning 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, success measures, quality measures, risks, mitigation plans, issues, dependencies, schedules, and change control strategy.
• Report progress, risks, and issues to management and stakeholders; track risks, mitigation, known issues, change requests, and change impact; resolve blockers to completion.
• Contribute to quarterly planning, Scrum of Scrums, and other agile ceremonies; participate in the project management community of practice.
• Lead by facilitation using standard scrum and scaled agile methodologies.
• Enforce work priorities as determined with product owner, business owner, and stakeholders; obtain sign-off on key deliverables.
• Conduct post-project reviews, lessons-learned discussions, and retrospectives.
• Draft project archives and process improvement plans; add documentation to repository for future projects.
• Project management platform familiarity (Jira, Trello, Asana, etc.)

Skills

Agile methodologies

Project coordination

Stakeholder communication

Scrum Master experience

Tools

Jira

Trello

Asana

Job description

MediaNews Group is seeking an experienced Project Manager to guide an agile team through product development, ensuring adherence to SDLC and balanced scope, schedule, and cost. You will act as a servant leader, coaching the team and keeping stakeholders informed about progress and risks.

The role is remote with residency required in CO, FL, IL, MA, MN, OH, OK, PA, or TX; you will coordinate across programs and participate in agile ceremonies and Jira/Trello/Asana work streams.