Overview
Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - 104 week(s)
Skills
Agile
Jira
Job Details
Scrum Lead / Project Manager
Burbank, CA - must be local
On-site 4 days per week (Remote on Fridays)
Estimated pay range for this position is USD $85.00/hr - USD $91.50/hr
W2 ONLY - NO C2C, Sponsorship, or 3rd Parties
MUST HAVE:
Successful candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, and able to autonomously work on concurrent implementations across matrixed teams both inside and outside the department. Must be capable of clearly communicating schedules, risks, issues, and processes to a variety of business, creative, and technical audiences. They must be able to partner with other project managers and technical leads outside their area to coordinate work, deliverables, and schedules.
Responsibilities
Lead agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinements, retrospectives, and demos.
Provide support using a servant leadership style, facilitate discussions and decision making in meetings, and resolve team impediments at multiple levels of an organization.
Coach teams in their journey to Agile, support their self-organization and agile methodology knowledge growth.
Use tools and techniques to support the team in shipping high quality software increments such as User Stories, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing and Burndown charts.
Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program progress and quality and know how to leverage those metrics to identify program needs.
Communicate delivery times and scope to other software engineering teams that depend on a timely delivery.
Manage projects that impact the scrum team, including developing project plans and timelines for projects and project deliverables.
Holds functional managers accountable for their teams’ deliverables.
Identifies and manages issues and risks and drives decision making.
Communicates team and project status and schedule updates.
Basic Qualifications
A minimum of 4 years of experience in technical program management and software application development.
Demonstrated experience as a Scrum Lead for cross-functional agile teams.
Working knowledge of Jira/Confluence supporting agile methodologies.
Experience with the software development life cycle.
Desire to learn and take on additional responsibilities as appropriate.
Anticipate working with teams on East or West Coast hours, with flexibility to work outside of regular office hours to accommodate important meetings in different time zones.
Preferred Qualifications
Technical knowledge of user interface, metadata management and software development practices.
Advanced knowledge of tools including Atlassian Suite (Jira/Confluence)
Education
BS/BA
The estimated pay range for this position is USD $85.00/hr - USD $91.50/hr and is an Exempt role. Exact compensation and offers of employment are dependent on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, licenses or certifications, and location. We also offer comprehensive benefits. The Talent Acquisition Partner can share more details about compensation or benefits for the role during the interview process.
Burbank, CA - must be local
On-site 4 days per week (Remote on Fridays)
Estimated pay range for this position is USD $85.00/hr - USD $91.50/hr
W2 ONLY - NO C2C, Sponsorship, or 3rd Parties
MUST HAVE:
- 6+ years of Technical Project Management Experience
- 6+ years experience as a Scrum Master/Lead
- Recent entertainment industry experience
- Established experience with digital content supply chain systems that support content operation functions (e.g., title and content metadata, inventory/asset management and storage, digital content distribution and packaging, asset comparison based on technical specifications such as frame rate, file formats and conformance standards)
- Prior knowledge and experience managing Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence projects, data scientists and ML engineers in the media and entertainment industry.
Successful candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, and able to autonomously work on concurrent implementations across matrixed teams both inside and outside the department. Must be capable of clearly communicating schedules, risks, issues, and processes to a variety of business, creative, and technical audiences. They must be able to partner with other project managers and technical leads outside their area to coordinate work, deliverables, and schedules.
Responsibilities
Lead agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinements, retrospectives, and demos.
Provide support using a servant leadership style, facilitate discussions and decision making in meetings, and resolve team impediments at multiple levels of an organization.
Coach teams in their journey to Agile, support their self-organization and agile methodology knowledge growth.
Use tools and techniques to support the team in shipping high quality software increments such as User Stories, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing and Burndown charts.
Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program progress and quality and know how to leverage those metrics to identify program needs.
Communicate delivery times and scope to other software engineering teams that depend on a timely delivery.
Manage projects that impact the scrum team, including developing project plans and timelines for projects and project deliverables.
Holds functional managers accountable for their teams’ deliverables.
Identifies and manages issues and risks and drives decision making.
Communicates team and project status and schedule updates.
Basic Qualifications
A minimum of 4 years of experience in technical program management and software application development.
Demonstrated experience as a Scrum Lead for cross-functional agile teams.
Working knowledge of Jira/Confluence supporting agile methodologies.
Experience with the software development life cycle.
Desire to learn and take on additional responsibilities as appropriate.
Anticipate working with teams on East or West Coast hours, with flexibility to work outside of regular office hours to accommodate important meetings in different time zones.
Preferred Qualifications
Technical knowledge of user interface, metadata management and software development practices.
Advanced knowledge of tools including Atlassian Suite (Jira/Confluence)
Education
BS/BA
The estimated pay range for this position is USD $85.00/hr - USD $91.50/hr and is an Exempt role. Exact compensation and offers of employment are dependent on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, licenses or certifications, and location. We also offer comprehensive benefits. The Talent Acquisition Partner can share more details about compensation or benefits for the role during the interview process.
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