Project Manager
Sprint Execution & Backlog Management
Own the day-to-day health of the Data Products sprint board in Azure DevOps, ensuring tickets are current, clearly described, and accurately pointed.
Facilitate biweekly sprint planning, backlog grooming, end-of-sprint reporting, and retrospective sessions.
Maintain a well-structured, prioritized backlog in close collaboration with Product Managers, ensuring the team always has a clear and ready queue of work.
Track sprint velocity, burndown, and scope changes—surfacing issues and blockers proactively rather than at the finish line.
Partner with Product Managers and engineering to enforce consistent story pointing standards.
Planning & Roadmap Coordination
Collaborate with Product Managers to ensure initiatives and epics are translated into well-defined, actionable stories at the appropriate time.
Maintain forward visibility into upcoming work, flagging when stories are not sprint-ready or when dependencies remain unresolved.
Prepare biweekly leadership status updates and sprint reviews that clearly connect completed work to measurable business impact.
Cross-Team and 3rd Party Coordination
Support leadership in tracking the work of external engineering partners within Azure DevOps, ensuring their contributions are story pointed, sprint-tracked, and visible across the team.
Assist in facilitating vendor-related status updates in coordination with the Director of Engineering and other team leaders.
Cultivate effective working relationships across engineering, analytics, and product functions to keep work moving and communication clear.
Accountability and Continuous Improvement
Maintain a retrospective log each sprint in coordination with Product Managers, documenting what slipped, root causes, and corrective actions.
Help reinforce a team culture in which deadlines are treated as commitments and blockers are surfaced early—with proposed paths forward.
Identify opportunities to streamline processes, reduce friction, and continuously improve team effectiveness.
Stay current on evolving project management tools and methodologies, including AI-powered workflow solutions, and bring innovative ideas to the team.