Forty8Fifty Labs is looking for a Project Manager passionate about managing key client projects. The Project Manager participates in the execution of solutions meant to drive the way their business teams collaborate and create value. Forty8Fifty Labs customers are both large and small with name brands recognized around the world.
In this role, you’ll be partnering with the professional services team and product partners to oversee all aspects of projects. Project management responsibilities include the coordination and completion of projects on time within budget and within scope.
Essential Functions:
•Manage multiple fast-paced custom projects
•Provides ongoing support to the Atlassian Solution and Support teams and clear
communication to clients
communication to clients
•Set deadlines, assign responsibilities and monitor and summarize progress of project
•Prepare reports for upper management regarding the status of projects
•Act as a client advocate internally and an advocate with the client
•Monitor project resource allocation, hours and burn reports and provide on-going project
budget, status, and risk management reports to clients and project management
budget, status, and risk management reports to clients and project management
•Facilitate meetings, such as daily stand up, solution pre-planning, demos, retrospectives,
etc.
etc.
•Ensure all work is represented in Jira, sized appropriately, with proper issue type,
descriptions, dependencies/relationships, acceptance criteria, story points, and consistent
standards
descriptions, dependencies/relationships, acceptance criteria, story points, and consistent
standards
•Minimize gaps between planned work represented in JIRA, and actual work done
•Ensure day-to-day changes to scope are properly documented within the user stories in Jira
and accurately estimated by the team and communicated to the client
and accurately estimated by the team and communicated to the client
•Ensure cross functional teams work together to have stories ready for sprints, and close sprints cleanly with issues properly closed out and minimal carry over
•Make sure the team goes through agile meetings with the right objectives and sets up achievable goals with necessary acceptance criteria
•Provide accurate, understandable, and useful metrics/reporting on sprint performance and progress toward release and launch plans. Utilize metrics to provide feedback, demonstrate performance, and drive progress
•Be an integral part of a delivery team that is responsible for the quality, budget, and timeliness of all products and projects
Job Requirements:
•5+ years traditional project management experience, Agile project management or scrum master
•Experience with traditional project management practices including: Project planning, budget tracking, scope management, managing estimate to complete
•Solid experience in creative problem-solving and critical thinking
•Familiar with both Agile Project Manager and Waterfall Project Management
•Experience with medium-to-large scale development projects including planning,
organizing, scheduling, estimating and budgeting
organizing, scheduling, estimating and budgeting
•Experience managing both internal and external Project preferred
•Knowledge of requirements gathering and technical documentation best practices,
including design sprints, user story mapping, etc.
including design sprints, user story mapping, etc.
•Understand how to leverage agile product management processes and how they translate
into scope management and project success to include user story mapping, design sprints,
clear acceptance criteria, etc.
into scope management and project success to include user story mapping, design sprints,
clear acceptance criteria, etc.
•MS Project, Excel, and Word experience
•Excellent interpersonal and written and verbal communications skills
•Team player, energetic personality, quality minded, focused, committed, able to work
independently in a fast paced, changing environment
independently in a fast paced, changing environment
To apply for this job, email your details to careers@verinext.com
