Why you? 

You are looking for something more from your job. Maybe a bigger problem to solve with both immediate and long term impact, or perhaps you just need a mission you can believe in every day. You are scrappy and collaborative while looking to join an inclusive and supportive culture with a bias for action. You dig a balanced startup life and can wrestle challenges with grace. You love big, interesting problems and bringing solutions to the masses while making sure it feels personal, authentic, and connected. If this sounds like you, we'd like to talk.

Why us? 

The Mom Project is a pioneering, remote-first venture-backed startup with roots in Chicago & Cincinnati. We are backed by some of the best investors in the world and are lucky to be surrounded by an incredible team of advisors, including Serena Williams. The Mom Project is a platform and community leading a movement that matches companies with diverse talent. This critical match drives businesses forward while expanding professional opportunities for women.

Our team is growing as we push to rewrite the narrative for working women at every stage of life. We believe women should be able to choose both a successful family life AND career aspirations without sacrificing one over the other. Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience drives us and our mission forward every day. We strive towards inclusion and that means everyone is comfortable bringing their authentic and best self to work every day. 

What you'll do:

General Project Management

• Manage projects throughout entire execution to ensure success as defined by adherence to standards of scope, budget, and timeline.


• Aid in developing comprehensive project plans that merge customer requirements with company goals


• Coordinate with various managers and technical personnel during all project phases, from initial development through implementation.


• Monitor project progress continuously and make detailed scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables.


• Communicate proactively with all involved personnel to provide encouragement, identify problems, create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements.


• Review proposed modifications on project plans, including meeting with interested parties to approve and implement beneficial changes.


• Have a strong grasp on project finances and create reports


• Strong ability to coach the team on Agile practices and communicate the workflows and principles to the stakeholders.


• Establishing and refining feedback loops with customers and stakeholders. Develop intelligent tools for collecting and aggregating customer feedback.


• Amplify impact and velocity by coordinating with cross-functional internal stakeholders


• Analyze data to help product management make better-informed decisions


• Manage and facilitate internal and external communication

 Technical Project Management

• Help run the software development planning and delivery process


• Responsible for actively engaging with cross-functional technical and product management teams to prioritize tasks/work effort by understanding scope, requirements, level of effort, and pipeline, and clarify trade offs when changes are made to that plan


• Create and monitor active work, backlog, priorities and risks to team members, internal and external stakeholders


• Organize & coordinate team ceremonies such as Release Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning & Retrospective. 


• Manage project documentation and report on project status, backlog, and resources


• Resolve and/or escalate issues in a timely fashion


• Implement, measure and report on key performance indicators and ensure project dashboards are up to date.


• Adhere to enterprise-wide project management methodology standards


• Providing assistance in building multiple high-performing Agile teams

 Job Skills & Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in the relevant field


• Minimum 3+ years of experience required with experience leading and managing cross-functional agile teams


• Experience managing teams that are co-located or distributed


• Strong communication and problem-solving skills


• Good understanding of technology for solutioning and to help coordinate with technical teams 


• Self-motivated to learn new tools, technology, & process, and be forward compatible. 


• Agile experience

Preferred:

• Background or experience in operational or process-heavy roles


• Working knowledge of structured query languages for reporting such as MySQL


• Experience working in a startup environment