A major client of ours is looking for a Junior Project Manager for their Midtown NYC office. This is a hybrid, contract opportunity.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitation & Ceremonies: Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Ensure these events are productive, collaborative, and strictly time-boxed.
- Servant Leadership: Support the Scrum team by identifying, tracking, and actively removing blockers or impediments to their progress (technical, organizational, or interpersonal).
- Product Owner Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Owners to help manage and refine the product backlog, ensuring user stories are well-defined, estimated, and ready for upcoming sprints.
- Agile Metrics & Reporting: Track and communicate team velocity, burndown/burnup charts, and other relevant metrics to help the team plan predictably and transparently communicate progress to stakeholders.
- Shield the Team: Protect the development team from external distractions, scope creep, and unvetted interruptions during active sprints.
- Continuous Improvement: Facilitate meaningful retrospectives that result in actionable, continuous improvement items for the subsequent sprint
• Experience in the IT industry, including development work and customer interaction
• PMP Certification
• Cyber Security Knowledge
• 1-4 years of experience
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