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As a Senior Project Delivery Manager at MetaLab you’ll run one or more agile projects alongside your product, design, and engineering partners. You’re the superglue that holds it all together. Never losing sight of the big picture or the fine details, you successfully navigate any curve balls thrown your way. Your masterful communication and problem-solving impresses even the most challenging of clients. Balancing patience and empathy with diplomacy and determination, your leadership skills create an environment for high-performing teams. You understand the value of collaboration and have a vested interest in helping everyone across the finish line. You step in and up wherever support is needed, and you’re the fearless advocate that everybody loves to love.
Your responsibilities:
- Manage the successful delivery of digital product development through its lifecycle (branding, product strategy, user research, UX/UI design, development and deployment)
- Create and maintain the project plan: detailed schedule, milestones and dependencies, progress tracking, risk identification and mitigation, and definition of done
- In partnership with product, design and engineering leadership ensure that the technical and strategic vision are executed on time, at MetaLab quality standards and on budget
- Own the project scope, timeline, and budget, and re-evaluate with internal and client teams as needed
- Be responsible for regular forecasting, reconciliation, and reporting on implications to the project budget based on resourcing changes, scope, or timelines
- Communicate status reporting to clients including progress, risks, dependencies and blockers to milestones
- Work closely with the product design, and engineering leads to ensure that the backlog is maintained and groomed for development sprints
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint demos, and retrospectives
- Plan, track and evaluate capacity planning and velocity for the engineering team, monitoring sprint burndown to ensure successful sprint delivery
- Partner with product, design and engineering leads to evaluate the impact that client requirements, dependencies, scope changes, have to the project delivery.
- Ensure all disciplines within the team (product, design, engineering, research) are tracking towards our desired outcomes
- Regularly conduct risk assessments to evaluate issues that could compromise delivery and create mitigation plans to navigate them, ensuring key stakeholders are aware.
The must-have short list:
- Technical project management experience in software delivery methodologies, design and implementation of products
- Experience shipping consumer and/or b2b products. Must be able to showcase products that are in market
- Excellent understanding of software development process including gathering requirements and defining specifications, driving the QA process, and compiling and disseminating project documentation
- Ability to work within software development tools such as Jira, Confluence, Notion, ProductBoard and Smartsheet
- Appreciation for design and the ability to facilitate collaboration across design, development and product teams
- Experience running status meetings, team standups and comfortable presenting to senior client stakeholders
- Must be able to communicate both verbally and written to technical and non-technical stakeholder in a manner where no matter who it is they are able to quickly and easily understand things like project status, risks and suggested mitigations
- Very experienced in all things budget management – including estimation, revenue recognition reporting and implications to budget from things like resourcing or scope changes
- An overall very collaborative and positive attitude that is able to motivate a team during tough times and celebrate successes during good times
- Understanding of quality assurance processes and technologies for both manual and automated QA
- Excellent attention to detail when it comes to timeline, budget, scope, and technical specifications
Equal opportunity employer
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Originally posted on Himalayas