Project Manager/Scrum Master

Company: Take Command

Position: Project Manager/Scrum Master

Location: Dallas or Austin, TX

Compensation: $90,000-$110,000 + 5% bonus

About the Project Manager/ Scrum Master role:

The Project Manager at Take Command is a dual role that reports to the CTO. Primarily, this person acts as the servant leader to the scrum team - making sure that ceremonies are productive, the team is adhering to their charter and metrics, KPIs are reported out to the organization, and continuous improvements are made.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitates ceremonies: daily stand-up, planning, sprint review and the retrospective
• Manages the technology team’s projects and facilitates release plans
• Creates or analyzes business requirements documents and project timelines
• Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
• Drives team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, and protect the team from the uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated and intentional!)
• Manages project conflicts, challenges, and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance
• Works with team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
• Conducts post-mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity
• Leads team effort in relentless improvement, defines and implements improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program
• Implements and supports principles, rules and processes
• Proactively identifies and eliminates impediments and facilitates flow
• Maintains team data in project management software (JIRA, Confluence, Monday, etc.) to support estimates and execution
• Presents high-level project readouts for senior management
• Supports product owners with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
• Manages other special projects as needed/assigned

Working at Take Command

We’re excited to build a team and culture that reflects our values! We offer competitive pay and health benefits to share with this position. 

• A generously funded ICHRA for medical, dental, and vision premiums and medical expenses. You get to use our own product and we think that’s so exciting and rare!
• Unlimited personal vacation in addition to regular company holidays.
• 401(k): 90-day eligibility for 2% match that vests immediately!
• Access to LinkedIn Learning.
• We have two beautiful offices conveniently located near The Hill (Dallas) and Holly Commons (Austin). The kitchen is well stocked and we've designed the space to have lots of different areas to work--lounge on the couch, stand near your colleague at a kiosk desk or hole up in one of our phone rooms!
• Paid parental leave for new parents.
• Flexible on where you work – we hope to see you around the office on average 3 days a week especially when white boarding or building relationships with your colleagues, but you also have the ability to work from home or wherever you'd like when you need to get focus work done.

About Take Command

Take Command is a start-up on a mission to improve the healthcare system, starting with health insurance. Pragmatically speaking, we help employers reimburse employees for individual insurance instead of offering a traditional one-size-fits-all group plan. We believe this model can empower employees (when they have the right support) to be savvy healthcare consumers and have a transformative impact on the entire healthcare system.

Let’s be honest—health insurance is usually a confusing, frustrating, and even emotional experience for people. We want to fix that with a new model, great technology, and a superior user experience. We have made a great start, but we need your help to fully realize our long-term vision.

More About Us

We recently secured our Series A funding and are thrilled to be able to expand our team. The health insurance industry needs some disruption and despite being a small startup, we’re the recognized industry leaders for the reimbursement model.

We’ve been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Dallas Morning News, and other publications around Texas and are excited about our growth opportunities.

Take Command knows diversity and inclusion among our teammates is integral to our company’s success and growth. Our vision is to recruit, develop, and retain the best team from a diverse candidate pool.

*Take Command is an equal opportunity employer! We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.