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Senior Agile Programme Manager - Digital & Mobile

Eingestellt von Lorien

Gesuchte Skills: Support, Engineering

Projektbeschreibung

Senior Agile Programme Manager - San Francisco based 2 year contract - required for leading mobile money company

Position Summary
Product Development Planning & Delivery, the Senior Agile Program Manager provides a wide variety of product development and release planning, program/project management, business analysis, process definition and improvement, reporting and metrics, and facilitation support. The Senior Program Manager ensures the Digital & Mobile Products product development scope and product development projects and processes are effectively planned, aligned for delivery, monitored, and reported across multiple development organizations employing both Agile/Scrum and waterfall development methodologies. The team is responsible for defining, socializing, implementing, and program managing an adaptive, multi-level, Agile product and release planning process for each market release in collaboration with Product Strategy, Product Development, and other technology and business partners. The team also plays a significant role in supporting program governance, producing market release and program progress reporting, providing business relationship management to the Product organization, and leading end-to-end process definition and improvement activities.

Responsibilities:
* Collaborate with Product and technology partners to support product and technology planning required to guide the product roadmap and development initiatives required to support each market release. Ensure business priorities and product changes are incorporated into program release plans, dependencies are identified and tracked, and planning and status is communicated to stakeholders.
* Provide program leadership, strategic planning, and project management support to the Digital & Mobile Products program and market releases comprised of multiple, interrelated, highly-complex projects in a very fast paced, dynamic environment with a heavily matrixed, cross-organizational delivery team.
*Define, implement, or improve upon program level forums, processes, and practices for planning, executing, tracking, and reporting to ensure market release goals are achieved.
*Provide project management and business analysis support, facilitate and direct program activities, conduct reviews, manage risk mitigation and change control processes, and communicate status to senior management and cross-functional stakeholders across both technology and business organizations.
*Develop and deliver a wide variety of stakeholder and executive presentations representing the business and technical teams. Create, maintain, and publish a variety of tools, templates, schedules/timelines, and training materials.
*Build and maintain effective working relationships with counterparts in other business and technology organizations to ensure our program deliverables align other programs and development groups.

Qualifications
* A strong and solid background with progressively more responsible experience in directly relevant roles such as Program/Project Manager, Management Consultant, Product Developer/Manager, Business Analyst and/or Strategist. Solid experience supporting development and management of products in the online/E-commerce, payments technology and processing, and/or financial industry space.
* Solid understanding of the software/product development life cycle (SDLC/PDLC) and program and project management techniques, methodologies and best practices, with a strong preference for candidates with significant experience in an Agile/Scrum environment. Equally effective working with both engineering/technical team and product/business team members.
* Strong portfolio/program/project management skills, as demonstrated through experience leading and managing complex, large-scale, cross-organizational, multi-stakeholder projects with a successful track record of delivery. Ability to identify, plan and track multiple workstreams across technology functions.
* Outstanding written communication, analytical and problem-solving skills. Proven ability to create executive level reports, dashboards and presentations. Highly skilled in the creation of PowerPoint presentations, presenting text, diagrams, and metrics in visually compelling ways. High attention to detail with ability to synthesize information from multiple sources and distill it in crisp, clear language appropriate for executive audiences. Demonstrated ability to consistently produce top-quality deliverables appropriate for an executive audience.
* Strong verbal communication, presentation, collaboration and teamwork skills with demonstrated ability to gain trust, secure buy-in and influence change at all levels. Highly effective facilitation skills in both small and large-group settings.
* Strong process orientation and demonstrated ability to define and document new or improved product/program planning, development, and project management processes and workflows. Ability to diagram and document existing and proposed new business/technical processes using Visio and other tools.
* Highly collaborative, flexible, diplomatic and persistent,. Comfortable with ambiguity, open to change, and able to thrive in a "startup" environment within a large, established company.
* BA/BS required with concentration in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields preferred.
* Advanced proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, SharePoint) required.
* Working knowledge of Agile application life cycle management and development tools (Rally, Confluence Wiki, JIRA) highly preferred.
* Project Management Professional (PMP®), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), and/or Certified Product Owner (CPO) certifications are preferred.

Projektdetails

  • Einsatzort:

    San Francisco, Vereinigte Staaten

  • Projektbeginn:

    asap

  • Projektdauer:

    24 months

  • Vertragsart:

    Contract

  • Berufserfahrung:

    Keine Angabe

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