Agile Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Project Tracking & Risk Management
• Work with the Product Owner to build out project plan.
• Prioritize and coordinate resources among various teams through in-person meetings.
• Track all project requirements, ensuring clarity, feasibility, and alignment with business goals.
• Identify, review, and proactively mitigate risks, bottlenecks, and blockers that impact execution.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure timely resolution of project impediments.
• Use sprint metrics including velocity, burndown/burnup, cycle time, carryover work, defect trends, and predictability to identify improvement opportunities and support delivery forecasting.
• Collaborate with other Agile Project Managers and leadership in continuously improving agile SDLC best practices and standards (e.g. training, communications, SharePoint, MS Teams, etc.).
• Project Documentation & Reporting
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including timelines, dependencies, scope changes, and decision logs.
• Prepare and deliver clear and concise project updates for stakeholders at various levels.
• Ensure all documentation is up to date and accessible to relevant teams.
• Collaborate with other Agile Project Managers and leadership in continuously improving agile SDLC best practices and standards (e.g. training, communications, SharePoint, MS Teams, etc.).
• Agile Process Leadership
• Lead and facilitate Agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Facilitate the Scrum of Scrum across Product Areas for prioritizing and resource alignment across different teams.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration within Agile teams.
• Coach Agile teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Scrum principles, roles, and effective Agile ways of working.
• Support capacity planning, sprint planning, and forecasting based on team availability, historical delivery data, and upcoming dependencies.
• Stakeholder Coordination & Meeting Management
• Schedule and manage project meetings, ensuring the right participants are engaged.
• Take detailed meeting notes, capturing key decisions, action items, and deadlines.
• Distribute meeting summaries and ensure accountability on the next steps.
• Follow up with team members to track progress, resolve blockers, and drive execution.
• Facilitate agile team development, mediate conflicts, and encourage healthy team dynamics that empower the team to solve its own problems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Agile project management, preferably in technology-driven initiatives.
• Strong understanding of Agile, waterfall and hybrid methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and ability to drive Agile best practices.
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams.
• Strong problem-solving skills to proactively identify and resolve execution bottlenecks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex project details into clear, actionable updates in fast-paced environment.