Product Manager

Company Description:
We are a company that is 100% focused on delivering digital information and solutions to our customers all around the world. Our dev projects are at the core of our organization – and so is our dev team. We aren’t code monkeys here. We’re creators.

Job Description:

The Scrum Master is responsible for the day-to-day management and smooth operation of software development projects. You will manage multiple projects simultaneously spanning all aspects of the project lifecycle (discovery, planning, development, QA, closure of the project). You will be in charge of development project planning, deadline, and budget management, daily project monitoring, and task delegation. You will collaborate with customers, our management team, and the engineering team (UX, BA, QA, Developers). This position requires significant multitasking, strong communication ability, and extensive organization & documentation skills.

Requirements

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Be the Agile champion and guide one or more teams in the adoption of agile/scrum principles
• Monitor team activity and guide workload commitments
• Remove ambiguity by connecting with external teams or individuals so sprint progresses stays on schedule
• Shield the team from external interferences that can jeopardize sprint goals
• Keep team members engaged, involved and informed
• Maintain data integrity, completeness, and accuracy in team tools for work tracking and reporting
• Facilitate and create a collaborative space for Scrum and other meetings, such as stand-ups, grooming, sprint planning, release planning, and retrospectives
• Ensure the team understands and commits to specific sprint goals and follows through accordingly
• Provide consistent and periodic project status to senior management
• Escalate impediments that cannot be resolved by the sprint team
• Occasionally assist in managing project for the product and engineering teams
• Coordinate cross-functional meetings to create project plans, release plans and other artifacts
  as needed
• Document functional requirements, process models, and use cases.
• Work closely with senior developers to create a tailored project plan.
• Document all communication: meetings, project progress, backlog, overages, and change requests for each project.
• Act as the primary point of contact for client communication.
• Escalate any projects that are not meeting or exceeding client's expectations. This involves reviewing communication to ensure the client is and has been getting a confirmation from our team within a few hours of any communication, following-up to show progress to the client as well as setting and proactively managing reasonable client expectations.
• Diligently track time spent by all resources on the project and provide metrics
• Ability to manage people and processes to success through leading without using excessive authority.
• Maintain positive image when dealing with customers and all internal departments.
• Practice a high level of integrity and honesty in maintaining confidentiality.

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of Scrum Master experience within web engineering and familiar with product launch cycles
• Highly motivated, self-driven, and passionate about delivering great experiences
• Structured and efficient in planning and coordination of projects and sprints
• Ability to be the agile leader for the sprint and extended team, focusing on best practices and principles
• Mentor sprint teams and external members on agile/scrum principles
• Expertise with various agile and software development tools (e.g. JIRA/Asana)
• Demonstrable history of leading various agile/scrum projects for cross-functional and highly matrixed organizations
• Able to influence and coach senior leadership on continually growing the agile practice

Annual Salary

15,000 to 25,000 USD

Benefits

Our current benefits can be found here -->http://newrich.com/careers