Senior Project Manager - LU5890

Nisum is a leading global digital commerce firm headquartered in California, with services spanning digital strategy and transformation, insights and analytics, blockchain, business agility, and custom software development. Founded in 2000 with the customer-centric motto “Building Success Together®,” Nisum has grown to over 1,800 professionals across the United States, Chile,Colombia, India, Pakistan and Canada. A preferred advisor to leading Fortune 500 brands, Nisum enables clients to achieve direct business growth by building the advanced technology they need to reach end customers in today’s world, with immersive and seamless experiences across digital and physical channels.

What You'll Do

• The Technical Project Manager (TPM) is responsible for planning, leading, organizing, and motivating agile scrum teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality in the delivery of outputs that provide exceptional value to end-users and customers. 
• The TPM may be responsible for managing several concurrent high-visibility initiatives using agile methods in a fast-paced environment that may involve multiple business units.
• Facilitate key ceremonies of Agile Scrum Framework from start to ends such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. 
• Play a consultative role to help put in process, and tools supporting the Agile framework and coaching members of the team as needed to optimize the efficiency.
• Act as a Servant Leader in establishing project management principles and practices with an Agile development approach to provide the right balance of business agility.
• Work with Product Owner/Product Manager to drive and facilitate decomposition of Epic Roadmaps into Product Backlog Items (PBIs) and ready it to handoff into team-level backlogs.
• Drive Quality and ensure the Definition of Done (DOD) is being followed; ensures each team member is fully engaged in the stories and making a meaningful contribution.
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or retribution, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving. 
• Facilitate getting the work done by practicing servant leadership and encourage discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assist in team development through holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work, and leveraging cross-functional team skills to improve product backlog throughput.
• Become a bridge between DevOps, QA, Engineering, and Product Management Teams
• Closely work with all stakeholders and Efficiently Manage release rollouts.
• Implement agile governance with key ceremonies, drives continuous improvement with constant assessments of velocity (team story point throughput), defect percentage improvements, etc.
• Assist with the team estimation/sizing exercise for both near-term and future initiatives.
• Create reports like burn-up & burn-down charts, sprints velocity, etc. to track project progress in real-time. 
• Assess problems/risks and develop mitigation plans to avoid impact on the project.

What You Know

• 10+ years of experience in Agile Project management with Digital background.
• Experience on Catalog or Item would be a plus.
• Proven leadership and project delivery experience with global teams for a large organization with the ability to manage cross-functional teams.
• Hands-on experience as a leader with strong people skills.
• Well-versed in the use of tools of software delivery e.g., MS OFFICE, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Ability to effectively communicate specialist information in an understandable format to all stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, focusing on core scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect.
• Willingness to operate in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Education

• 4-year degree (Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or relational functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience.

Benefits

• In addition to competitive salaries and benefits packages, Nisum US offers its employees some unique and fun extras:
• Professional Development - We offer in-house technical training and professional learning programs aimed at developing skills across a broad spectrum of topics such as technology, leadership, role-based training, and process expertise. We also offer an annual stipend for employees to attend external courses in order to maintain professional certifications
• Health & Wellness Benefits - We believe that your health and welfare are important, and we strive to ensure that you have affordable options available to you, including some plans that are subsidized for employees and their families by up to 90%. We also have dental and vision plans in the US where Nisum pays 100% of premiums for employees
• Volunteerism Pay - We believe in giving back and in the US, our employees are eligible for up to 40 hours of paid time off each year to volunteer towards the causes that they are most passionate about. This is in addition to personal PTO and paid holidays
• Additional Benefits - We offer all the other important benefits to keep employees and their families healthy and financially secure, such as 401(k) retirement savings with a company match, pre-tax parking and transit programs, disability insurance, and Basic Life/AD&D, alongside exclusive employee discounts on a wide variety of products and services

Compensation Band

• $120-130k per year

Nisum is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity and inclusion in the workplace.