Project Strategist

Work With Us
At Experient Group, we value community, collaboration, and people who are willing to roll up their sleeves to get the job done. While functional and technical skills are critical, we place a priority on hiring people who match our values. Our philosophy is simple: we attract and hire talented people, then provide them with a supportive community, career opportunities, and guidance from our experienced leadership so they can thrive. In short, we strive to serve our people better than anyone else.
What You’ll Do

• Fill a role blending technical delivery management, digital product ownership, and account leadership.
• Lead a team comprised of a couple of small pods/projects with 20+ employees, client personnel, and contractors including software engineers, technical business analysts, quality assurance testers, and production support analysts.
• Manage project scope, risks & issues, stakeholders & communications, resources, finances, schedule, and quality.
• Work directly with client project sponsor and other senior stakeholders.
• Advise the client on best practices for digital product ownership and delivering software solutions in an agile manner.
• Enable and improve the team’s operating model, ways of working, information sharing, and collaboration.
• Balance run activities related to production support with build activities related to quarterly business objectives.
• Own and facilitate client meetings and sprint ceremonies.
• Provide scrum teams (pods) with delivery guidance.
• Accountable for project administration and various recurring reports.

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years of digital product and software engineering experience.
• 10+ years of technology, management consulting, professional services, and/or Big 4 consulting experience.
• Leads and drives sprint ceremonies, backlog refinement, user story creation, epic/feature design, PI planning activities, engineer assignments and deadlines tracking & reports.
• Assists client’s product owners with process improvements and standardization to help mature client’s overall digital product maturity.
• Strong project management experience
• Strong stakeholder management experience working with senior management and vendors.
• Experience advising clients on best practices.
• Ability to guide a team and keep positive morale.
• Experience managing or designing production support teams.
• Process improvement mindset.
• Passion for learning and solving business problems with technology.
• Experience with JIRA and ADO is a plus.
• Experience leading projects where digital technology is impacting a physical environment (e.g. restaurant, store, doctor office, etc.) is a plus.

Location: Atlanta, GA
About Us
Experient Group is an Atlanta-based business + IT consultancy that offers flexible and innovative solutions tailored to our clients' business environment, culture, and budget. We don't assume anything - we set out to continually prove ourselves by going above and beyond in every client engagement. We work collaboratively to understand our clients' business and provide guidance that enables them to achieve results.