Senior Project Leader & Scrum Master — Remote

Eliassen Group; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead complex, cross-functional technology initiatives in a remote, contract role. You will drive delivery across digital platforms from planning through deployment, coordinating engineering, product, finance partners, vendors, and leadership to align on delivery goals.

This role requires strong communication, governance discipline, and leadership in fast-paced environments; W2 benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401k

Qualifications

• 5–8 years in digital project management for consumer-facing products.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, and hybrid delivery models.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience developing requirement roadmaps and aligning teams on digital transformation efforts and best practices.

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 Scrum

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Tools

Jira

Asana

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead complex, cross-functional technology initiatives in a remote, contract role. You will drive delivery across digital platforms from planning through deployment, coordinating engineering, product, finance partners, vendors, and leadership to align on delivery goals.

This role requires strong communication, governance discipline, and leadership in fast-paced environments; W2 benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401k