Senior Project Manager, Scrum Master

Summary

Join RainFocus, a rapidly-growing software company in Utah's Silicon Slopes, as a Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master. This role leads the implementation of software development efforts and requires strong project leadership skills combined with business acumen and analytical skills.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience in project management/scrum master role leading business system projects (CRM, ERP, Middleware, etc)
• Demonstrated ability to manage Director+ level internal project stakeholders
• Demonstrated conflict management, escalations, executive communication and leadership skills
• Outstanding and effective interpersonal skills; along with strong communication skills both verbal and written
• Ability to weigh business and technical requirements to identify dependencies, produce project plans and estimates
• Ability to proactively identify and manage project risks
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and/or Information Technology or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies such as daily stand up meetings, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews/demos and sprint retrospectives
• Manage day-to-day execution of project implementations. Assist with the planning, tracking, documentation and status updates for the project
• Provide leadership with metrics necessary to make decisions
• Protect the team from outside distractions
• Remove obstacles in order to continue to deliver
• Exercise solid project leadership skills combined with strong business acumen and in-depth analytical skills
• Assist the scrum team to become a self-organized, cross-functional, and highly efficient team that delivers high-quality products
• Lead conversations regarding budget, resources and timeline and formally capture and communicate outcomes of those meetings
• Help to facilitate requirements gathering and assist with the creation of project deliverables, as needed
• Facilitate the creation of technical design documents for complex projects, by interfacing with Technical Architects and Developers, as needed
• Able to manage one or two large projects or a couple of small to medium sized interrelated projects requiring complex cross-functional collaboration and management at the program level
• Track utilization of project resources and manage this against the resource allocation and budget
• Lead in end to end implementation planning including project management, issue management, communication and change management
• As necessary, write and review QA and UAT test scripts. Assist testing efforts when required
• Manage UAT with end users including coordination and user acceptance sign-off
• Prepare user documentation and training documentation as necessary
• Facilitate documenting and executing the team's continuous improvement plan, based on retrospectives
• Help to define and adopt a standardized development lifecycle methodology for all projects

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Competitive benefits
• 401k
• Generous PTO