Project Manager-Entry Level

Responsibilities

• Mentor Assistant Scrum Masters (SMs) and coach team members to reinforce Agile principles and practices.
• Coach Product Owners (POs) on building Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), roadmaps, and refining product backlog items for QRP (Quarterly Roadmap Planning).
• Facilitate Pod-level ceremonies, including Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, and Sprint Reviews.
• Co-facilitate OKR (Objective and Key Results) planning discussions and roadmap reviews for Pods.
• Lead Sprint 0 setup, ensuring proper team readiness, ceremonies, and board configurations.
• Partner with POs to support ongoing backlog refinement sessions, ensuring backlog items are ready for planning and aligned with OKRs.
• Align sprint goals with roadmap objectives and promote the creation of well-defined user stories.
• Support Agile training delivery for Pod members, including onboarding and continuous learning.
• Monitor Pod metrics, track performance trends, and facilitate problem-solving discussions to drive continuous improvement.
• Lead retrospectives to identify improvement opportunities and support the team’s Agile maturity.
• Encourage adoption of technical best practices like BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) and TDD (Test-Driven Development).
• Effectively identify, document, and monitor dependencies, risks, and issues across Pods and work with relevant stakeholders to mitigate or resolve them.
• Remove impediments or escalate issues that may hinder progress.
• Facilitate team alignment, manage ceremony cadence, and influence without authority to drive successful delivery.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams on release planning and visibility, ensuring that Agile processes are in place for integration and testing stages.
• Guide ADO (Azure DevOps) use within the Pod, maintaining sprint boards, queries, dashboards, and reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 1 years of experience working as a Scrum Master or in Agile project management roles, including facilitating Agile ceremonies and mentoring team members.
• 2 years Experience DevOps practices and tools such as ADO (Azure DevOps), and continuous integration/testing processes.
• Preferred or equivalent combination of education and/or experience
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or equivalent Agile certifications (e.g., PMI-ACP, SAFe Scrum Master, PSM 2, CSPO)