Agile Program Manager

The Agile Program Manager is the team role responsible for ensuring the team lives agile values and principles and follows the processes and practices that the team agreed they would use. The primary responsibilities are to serve the team in turning requirements into the working software, track progress and help the team achieve their commitments and goals. The APM will act as the Scrum Master to facilitate scrum events, supporting the team in following the Scrum framework. This role may also handle some traditional project management duties including scope definition, resource balancing, communication of status to executives, clients and partners, budget oversight and risk/issue management.

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Required Skills & Experience

Bachelors degree and 7 years of product/project development experience on an Agile Team
Must have first level PM and Scrum Master certification (CSM ) (PSM), PMI-ACP , PMI-PMP
Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
Excellent skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, collaboration, increasing transparency, and root cause analysis.
Extensive knowledge of program and project management principles and methods.
Knowledge of multiple PPM and agile frameworks (i.e. Waterfall, Hybrid, Scrum, XP, Kanban, LeSS, etc..),
Clear understanding of software development life cycle models
Adept at understanding requirements, refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection.
Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams.
Solid understanding of and demonstrated experience in using appropriate tools, such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Visio, ServiceNow and all MS Office Tools
Understanding of financial controls needed in project management and consulting work, experience with budget tracking.
In-depth understanding of how to scope and estimate work.
Understanding of execution metrics and how to leverage for teams continuous improvement and reporting.
Experience working with multiple teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc)
Proficient in MS Excel, PowerPoint and other Office applications to build process flows and presentations.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

Lean Six Sigma certification a plus.
PMI- PgMP®
Second or Third level Scrum Master certification (A-CSM, PSM II, PSM III, CSP, CTC)
CSPO or equivalent
Track record of continued and recent education in Project/Program Management and Agile/Scrum, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.