Senior Agile PM & Scrum Master - Remote

Eliassen Group; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 135,000 - 156,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead cross-functional technology initiatives on a contract basis. This remote role requires coordinating engineering, product, and stakeholders, driving delivery from planning through stabilization, and maintaining governance across programs.

The ideal candidate will facilitate Agile ceremonies, manage dependencies, and ensure clear acceptance criteria and backlog readiness, enabling on-time, high-quality outcomes in a

Qualifications

• 5 to 8 years in digital project management for consumer-facing products.
• Background supporting media, entertainment, sports, or consumer technology organizations.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, and hybrid delivery models.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Proven management of cross-functional teams in fast-paced enterprise environments.
• Executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile Scrum ceremonies and serve as main point of contact for sprint activities, velocity tracking, and cross-team dependencies.
• Translate business requirements for technical partners and communicate technical constraints to business stakeholders.
• Identify and manage dependencies and capacity constraints to keep projects on track.
• Anticipate roadblocks and implement real-time solutions.
• Partner with Product Management to prioritize and maintain the product backlog with clear acceptance criteria, definition of ready, and definition of done.
• Oversee ticket refinement to ensure work items are actionable and measurable for capacity and velocity per sprint and program increment.
• Lead enterprise-scale digital initiatives from initiation through post-launch stabilization.
• Manage cross-functional programs with engineering teams, third-party partners, and internal clients.
• Develop and maintain detailed plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and delivery roadmaps.
• Coordinate multiple concurrent workstreams across internal teams and vendors.
• Maintain PMO governance standards, frameworks, status reporting, and change management processes.
• Drive portfolio transparency with executive dashboards, planning reports, and milestone tracking.
• Facilitate risk identification, mitigation planning, escalation management, and dependency coordination.
• Serve as liaison among business leadership, technology teams, vendors, and stakeholders, leading status reviews and decision forums.
• Translate technical initiatives into business-aligned outcomes and actionable plans, building alignment across product, engineering, and operations.
• Coordinate deployment planning, migration sequencing, operational readiness, and stabilization activities.
• Support Agile and hybrid delivery methodologies as required.
• Demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Problem-solving

Tools

Jira

Asana

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead cross-functional technology initiatives on a contract basis. This remote role requires coordinating engineering, product, and stakeholders, driving delivery from planning through stabilization, and maintaining governance across programs.

The ideal candidate will facilitate Agile ceremonies, manage dependencies, and ensure clear acceptance criteria and backlog readiness, enabling on-time, high-quality outcomes in a