Senior Project Manager

Summary

Join Nava, a consultancy and public benefit corporation, as a Senior Project Manager. You will support the delivery of complex projects and products using agile methodologies, acting as a liaison between clients and the project team. Responsibilities include facilitating communication, managing sprints, removing roadblocks, and ensuring project quality. You will work with product managers to define roadmaps and prioritize tasks for cross-disciplinary teams. The role requires strong communication, agile experience, and leadership skills. Nava offers competitive benefits, including generous time off, bonuses, parental leave, and a comprehensive wellness program.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a Project Manager with 2-3 years (minimum) direct experience with agile development practices
• Experience with both the use and management of ticketing systems
• Experience managing client relationships (managing milestones and dependencies, stakeholder awareness of goings on within the team, stakeholder communication)
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Trello, and/or other industry-standard tools
• Experience leading complex projects, including managing milestones, dependencies, and integrations with significant risk, uncertainty, or scale
• Previously worked with product, design, and engineering teams as a cohesive unit and maintaining open lines of communication in a multi-disciplinary environment
• Previous experience using agile frameworks like scrum, kanban, or SAFe and familiarity with agile development practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Scrum Master or Product Manager in a complex software development environment with multiple stakeholders
• Highly skilled in facilitating communication and managing the psychological safety of a team
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States and meet any other requirements for government contracts for which they are hired
• Candidates offered a job at Nava must have work authorization that does not require visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future. Please be aware that most of our positions require U.S. citizenship or a green card
• May be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearances

Responsibilities

• Facilitate communication and information exchange between external partners and the project team
• Facilitate all sprint ceremonies in accordance with agile development practices, such as sprint planning, daily standup meetings, sprint review, sprint retrospective
• Manage and facilitate the epic life cycle for a product feature
• Remove roadblocks from the team's path to keep project work on track
• Facilitate the artifacts and documentation of an epic lifecycle
• Depending on the project, this role may require on-call duties
• Communicate with client stakeholders to determine project requirements and objectives
• Contractual deliverables: reporting project status, such as budget, resources, technical issues, or user testing results, to client stakeholders
• Assess and identify risks that come up and escalating these concerns to the appropriate parties to mitigate them
• Ensure that the project is staffed appropriately to complete the work required
• Ensure that the team is on track to deliver on the scheduled deadlines
• Manage the team's capacity against their workload — ensuring that time off is marked on the calendar, and ensuring that for each sprint, each individual does not take on too much work
• Run reports to ensure that the project stays on track to meet deliverables schedule and quality standards
• Meet with direct reports on a regular basis
• Guide direct reports when they are stuck in their IC duties
• Mentor direct reports, helping them with their career path
• Manage time off, expenses, administrative work

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with project management in a government context (state or federal)
• Experience working on iterative projects using prototypes, product pilots, and user research
• Track record of introducing and expanding agile transformation and pursuing best practices in project management with clients and stakeholders
• Ability to create training materials
• Experience launching new production systems with high public visibility in a fast-changing regulatory environment
• Experience working with development teams building custom software

Benefits

• Competitive benefits: We prioritize your well-being, offering highly competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Generous time off: Enjoy 20 days of accrued PTO, 12 paid federal holidays, 5 prorated floating holidays, and unlimited sick leave
• Annual discretionary bonus: Paid annually to eligible employees. When Nava does well, you do well
• Parental leave: Receive 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave and weekly meal deliveries during your leave
• Employee wellness program: Access our comprehensive Employee Wellness Program
• Virtual doctor visits: Enjoy zero copay virtual doctor visits through UHC
• Fertility support: Benefit from fertility support and treatment options
• Sabbatical leave: We offer a sabbatical leave program
• 401k contributions: We match 4% of your salary in 401k contributions
• Flexible work arrangements: We offer flexible work arrangements to suit your needs
• Home office setup: Receive assistance with your home office setup and a monthly phone allowance
• Utilities reimbursement: Get a monthly partial reimbursement for utilities (where applicable)
• Learning and development: Access our comprehensive learning and development program
• Tuition and Professional development budget: Receive a prorated annual tuition and professional development budget and a LinkedIn Learning license
• Equity stock options: Benefit from equity stock options
• Employee referral program: Participate in our employee referral program
• Commuter benefits: Enjoy commuter benefits
• Insurance coverage: Receive short and long-term disability insurance, as well as life and accidental death insurance
• Inclusive culture: Join our diverse, inclusive, highly collaborative, and vibrant culture that supports remote work