Senior Project Manager & Scrum Master — Remote Contract

Eliassen Group; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with company match

Life insurance

Job summary

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

The role requires clear communication, governance discipline, and the ability to lead in fast-paced settings.

Qualifications

• 5 to 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.
• 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

Scrum

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Delivery tracking

Problem solving

Tools

Jira

Asana

Job description

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

The role requires clear communication, governance discipline, and the ability to lead in fast-paced settings.