Position: Program ManagerExperience: 8+ Years
We are looking for a Program Manager with excellent project management skills. Ideal candidate would also have:
- Background / experience in Agile scrum
- Background / experience in supporting technical projects
- Knowledge of software development processes and best practices.
Duties/Responsibilities
Sprint Planning:
- Facilitate and coordinate agile ceremonies for example sprints, stand ups, and sprint reviews.
- Monitor Sprint progress and flag challenges to scrum team as needed (e.g., overallocation, or failure of team member to update progress on assigned tasks)
- (Ideally) Monitor and report on Agile performance metrics such as velocity and burndown.
Backlog Management:
- Review product backlogs in Taskflow and align with team members on prioritization.
- Conduct backlog grooming sessions and ensure tasks/stories have all information to start the work
Project Management:
- Create work breakdown structures and create tasks in Buganizer.
- Work with team members to ensure tasks are tracked in appropriately in SmartSheet.
- Document process guides for the team.
- Work with TPgMs (Technical Program Managers) to coordinate analysis and data deep dives to inform decision making.
- Generate project plans and work with TPgMs to coordinate milestone check-ins, project kickoffs, and other project tasks.
- Work on team website and knowledge base, and help curate content with the help of TPgMs, TSCs and TSEs.
- Ensure team prepare documents (Comprehensive User guide/Playbooks, Developer Guides, Release documents) & Review the same.
- To have a outstanding stakeholder Mgmt
- Create RAID logs for program.
Required:
- Scrum experience, or experience in a software development team in a program/project management role
- Excellent project management and communication skills
- PMO experience (preferably with PMP certification)
- Google experience preferred
Nice to have:
- Previous experience working in an Operations team
- Web content