Project Delivery Manager

Job Description

In this role you’ll play a crucial role in steering and nurturing teams towards enhanced productivity, excellence, and ingenuity. Your focus will be on elevating the team’s proficiency in project delivery utilizing Kanban or Scrum methodologies. You’ll collaborate closely with client leadership to ensure our alignment with client expectations and signed Statements of Work. Additionally, you’ll be responsible for overseeing project timelines, budget, and overall quality.

Requirements:

• Expertise with Agile development processes
• 5 years experinece in a technical software development environment
• Experience working with large organization on large scale projects
• Experience blending Kanban/Scrum and technical practices to come up with the right approach for engineering teams
• Presentation skills from C-suite to engineering teams
• Develop and maintain project scope, timeline, and budget
• Organize project meetings with clearly defined agendas and track resulting actions items
• Define and support the team rules
• Facilitate team meetings – Daily stand-ups, iteration planning, iteration review, and iteration retrospectives
• Identify blockers and eliminate impediments
• Communicate with management and outside stakeholders and protect the team from uncontrolled expansion of work
• User Stories creation and Product Backlog prioritization
• Release and iteration planning
• Velocity and capacity estimating and planning
• Quickly come up to speed and develop a strong understanding of our clients’ business
• Encourage, support, and guide continuous improvement of the team, its products, and processes
• Able to resolve conflict through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, or escalation
• Identify problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and facilitate quick resolution

Location: Portland, OR