Scrum Lead/Project Manager - AI/ML or Digital Supply Chain

Milestone Technologies, Inc.; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 117,096 - 126,050; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Glendale, CA seeks a Scrum Lead / Project Manager for a 24-month onsite contract. The role involves leading Agile ceremonies, coaching teams on best practices, and managing project timelines. Candidates should have a minimum of 4 years in program management, experience as a Scrum Lead, and familiarity with Jira/Confluence. The position offers a pay range of $85.00/hr - $91.50/hr and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years in technical program management and software application development.
• Experience as a Scrum Lead for cross-functional agile teams.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead agile ceremonies and provide servant leadership.
• Coach teams in their Agile journey and support self-organization.
• Communicate delivery timelines and project status.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Communication

Project management

Scrum coaching

Technical knowledge

Education

BS/BA

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Atlassian Suite

Job description

Overview

Scrum Lead / Project Manager - AI/ML or Digital Supply Chain

24 Months Contract · Onsite role in Glendale, CA (4+ days/week)

Description: The Scrum Lead / Project Manager will be an integral part of the Content Production and Distribution Global Program Management team. This role will work with Product and various Engineering teams to facilitate and support Agile ceremonies and coach scrum teams on Agile best practices and principles to enable the delivery of high value product increments to our users. Successful candidates must be proactive, detail-oriented, and able to autonomously work on concurrent implementations across matrixed teams. They must communicate schedules, risks, issues, and processes to a variety of business, creative, and technical audiences and partner with other project managers and technical leads to coordinate work, deliverables, and schedules.

Responsibilities

• Lead agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinements, retrospectives, and demos.
• Provide support using a servant leadership style, facilitate discussions and decision making, and resolve impediments at multiple levels of the organization.
• Coach teams in their journey to Agile, support self-organization and agile knowledge growth.
• Use tools and techniques to support the team in shipping high quality software increments (User Stories, TDD, CI, CD, Automated Testing, Burndown charts).
• Maintain metrics to provide visibility to stakeholders on program progress and quality, and leverage those metrics to identify program needs.
• Communicate delivery times and scope to other software engineering teams that depend on timely delivery.
• Manage projects affecting the scrum team, including developing project plans and timelines for projects and deliverables.
• Hold functional managers accountable for their teams’ deliverables.
• Identify and manage issues and risks and drive decision making.
• Communicate team and project status and schedule updates.

Basic Qualifications

• A minimum of 4 years of experience in technical program management and software application development.
• Demonstrated experience as a Scrum Lead for cross-functional agile teams.
• Working knowledge of Jira/Confluence supporting agile methodologies.
• Experience with the software development life cycle.
• Desire to learn and take on additional responsibilities as appropriate.
• Ability to work with teams across East or West Coast hours, with flexibility to accommodate meetings in different time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical knowledge of UI, metadata management and software development practices.
• Advanced knowledge of tools including Atlassian Suite (Jira/Confluence).
• Experience with digital content supply chain systems supporting content operation functions (title/content metadata, inventory/asset management, distribution, packaging, asset comparison by technical specs).
• Prior knowledge managing Machine Learning and AI projects, data scientists and ML engineers in media and entertainment.

Education

BS/BA

The estimated pay range for this position is USD $85.00/hr - USD $91.50/hr and is an Exempt role. Exact compensation and offers of employment are dependent on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, licenses or certifications, and location. We also offer comprehensive benefits. The Talent Acquisition Partner can share more details about compensation or benefits for the role during the interview process.