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Stamford, CT Full Time Posted by: Meredith Corporation Posted: Friday, 19 March 2021
 
 

If you are obsessed and excited about providing an amazing Agile environment for your teams and you want to bring the technical to Technical Project Manager, then this is the role for you!
The teams have a total of 25 onshore and offshore folks who build top quality products and services, integrations with partners, as well as customer care tools
Youll work with an exceptional group of software engineers, QA, product managers, operations, and other technical project managers to take the business to the next level
This is a mature organization that is also in the midst of a transformation. Youll be able to have an impact throughout the organization by advocating for and implementing meaningful change

Role and Responsibilities (What Youll Do)

Leverage your expertise to constantly raise the bar and ensure the team delivers extraordinary results - focusing on creating value, continuous improvement and collaboration
Strive to thoroughly understand customer, business, stakeholder and engineering needs to facilitate solutions to meet those needs
Build real partnerships among team members and throughout the company
Help define the teams vision, strategy and roadmap
Harness the Agile process to ensure priorities are met, while focusing, empowering and coaching the teams to success
Maintain excellent software development processes including Agile best practices such as release planning, estimation, daily meeting, problem management, risk management, and retrospectives
Manage cross functional company initiatives of all sizes and complexity from end to end
Resolve obstacles through strong partnerships, data driven judgement, clear action plans, and creative problem solving
Support project metrics, analytics and reporting

Professional Qualifications (What You Have)

You have 5+ years of hands-on experience with Agile software practices such as Kanban, Scrum, or other Agile methodologies
You have a strong track record of project management success on complex technology projects
You are able to understand high-level technical discussions and contribute meaningfully
You listen, communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, and facilitate solutions with actionable plans
You have strong analytical skills and are results-driven
You care deeply about customers, technology, process, and quality
You love developing and growing people and have demonstrated the ability to do so
You have people management experience or are interested in learning
You know many of these technologies and are eager to learn the rest quickly - Jira, Aha!, Confluence, and other relevant project management tools
B.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent degree or work experience)

Personal Characteristics (Who You Are)

Highly effective at creating collaborative relationships across an entire organization
High energy, accountable, and action-oriented with a history of getting things done in complex environments
Results oriented, tenacious, but with the ability to know when to push harder and when to look for alternative approaches - knowing when it matters and when it doesn't
Both accepting of other people's ideas and confident in your own
Values integrity, humility, creativity, open-mindedness, collaboration, creating value and continuous improvement


Stamford, CT, United States of America
IT
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3/19/2021 6:00:09 PM

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