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Technical Project Manager - Remote

Location: preferred: Short Hills, NJ/Austin, TX/Jacksonville, FL

What You'll Do:

• Facilitate daily stand-ups, iteration planning, sprint reviews, and iteration retrospective.
• Manage the engineering development projects and facilitate sprint releases.
• Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines.
• Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional).
• Manage project conflicts, challenges, and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance.
• Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks.
• Conduct postmortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity.
• Lead team efforts in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program.
• Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow.
• Maintain team data in project management software (ie JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support estimates and execution.
• Present high level project readouts for senior management.
• Support product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope.

Requirements (Must Haves):

• 3 or more years of experience as a Project/Program manager.
• 2 or more years experience leading sprints.
• Must have Jira, confluence hands on experience and demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• Well developed interpersonal skills and the ability succeed in a matrixed organization, and in a high energy, time bounded environment.
• Excellent presentation, analytical and organizational skills, and experience presenting to executive management.
• Self-starter, critical thinker who can prioritize multiple initiatives. Must be skilled at anticipating problems, creating contingency plans, managing multiple priorities, problem solving and organizing logistics