Senior Agile Project Manager

Our Customer is a leading global, diversified information, services and media company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include various financial services, medical information and services businesses, and lastly, ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; 33 television stations; 24 daily and 52 weekly newspapers; digital services businesses; and nearly 250 magazines around the world.

Our Customer is seeking a Senior Agile Project Manager on a contract basis to help support their business needs. This role is hybrid in New York, NY or Charlotte, NC.

This role will work with teams in a fast-paced technology organization. The primary objective is to help the teams they are supporting to accomplish their product roadmaps by promoting communication and collaboration, organizing their prioritized work, and promoting continuous improvement.


Qualifications:

• Prior positions as either a Project Manager or Scrum Master
• Optional certifications are a plus: Certified Scrum Master (or equivalent), Project Management Professional or other related certification1.
• Experience project managing CRM transformation initiatives
• Practical experience working with multiple project management methodologies including at least one of the following: Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, SAFe
• Working with any project management organizational or visualization tools; examples could be Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Asana, Monday.com, Trello, SmartSheet, Wrike, or Rally
• Experience scheduling projects by breaking down large plans into smaller tasks
• Ability to lead technical conversations and work with teams to prioritize work based on value delivered, and highlight risks to delivery and support of a product
• Skills to work with business and technology stakeholders to understand and document objectives and requirements, translate technical requirements and solutions into business language and back
• Managing the flow of information to all stakeholders of the project from sponsors to users impacted
• Experience developing, maintaining and distributing (as appropriate) standard project management deliverables including: requirements, project schedules, issues & action items log, and meeting minutes
• Remove impediments for the team to execute on work
• Experience leading large-scale technology projects with strategic importance (preferred)
• Experience participating in both development and infrastructure teams (preferred)
• Being a champion of user experience (preferred)

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)

Benefits: Medical, Dental, and 401k (no match)

Please note: In order to to create a safe, productive work environment, our client is requiring all contractors who plan to be onsite to be fully vaccinated according to the CDC guidelines. Prior to coming into our offices, contractors will be required to attest that they are fully vaccinated.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.