Senior Project Manager - Guidewire

Join a recognized team as a Senior Project Manager driving agile projects, with responsibilities including project planning, team motivation, and risk management. The role may involve serving as a Scrum Master and requires experience in agile methodologies.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: USD $101,167.00 - USD $204,439.00 /Yr.

Responsibilities

• Lead project planning, resource allocation, and monitoring to ensure projects stay on schedule and within budget, utilizing agile principles.
• Motivate cross-functional teams to meet deadlines and deliverables, fostering a collaborative and agile working environment.
• Accountable for delivering technical projects on time, within budget, and with successful outcomes according to business objectives.
• Develop comprehensive project plans encompassing scope management, deliverables, milestones, resource management, finance, and quality management, in an agile context.
• Manage multiple projects/scrum teams simultaneously, ensuring effective adherence to Agile practices.
• Facilitate backlog grooming sessions with cross-functional teams to ensure clear priorities, understanding, and dependencies before sprint planning.
• Appropriately engage all organizations to ensure effective adherence to completing PDLC governance.
• Maintain and prioritize the requirements backlog, ensuring alignment with technical and operational needs.
• Collaborate with Product Management to help drive sprint planning sessions to set development teams up for success in meeting their commitments.
• Proactively remove impediments for project teams to ensure continuous workflow.
• Monitor and communicate project health, managing interdependencies, and defining critical milestones.
• Conduct retrospectives, drive continuous improvements, and share best practices within the organization.
• Uphold the company's commitment to risk management and data integrity.

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of Agile, Scrum, project management, or related experience with a software development team that applied Scrum principles, practices, and theories.
• Proven track record of leading agile transformations by successfully coaching and transitioning teams, programs, and portfolios at all organizational levels, including senior leadership.
• Proficiency with MS Project, Jira and Confluence.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions
• Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, 9 paid Company holidays, volunteer hours)
• Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance
• 401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match
• Engaging work environment
• Promotional opportunities
• Education assistance
• Professional and personal development opportunities
• Company recognition program
• Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more