Project Manager III

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Facilitate productive Agile and SAFe team events that enhance planning, delivery, inspection, adaptation, and ongoing improvement.

• Guide teams in adopting Agile practices that foster ownership, collaboration, transparency, and efficient delivery flow.

• Assist with PI Planning and release planning by clarifying capacity, goals, risks, dependencies, and readiness requirements.

• Coordinate priorities, project scope, handoffs, dependencies, schedules, and delivery commitments across teams and stakeholders.

• Provide clear delivery updates that include progress, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and subsequent steps.

• Advocate for high-quality Jira and reporting data to ensure visibility into work, capacity, delivery health, and emerging trends.

• Convert team-level delivery insights into communications for stakeholders.

• Identify, monitor, and assist in resolving impediments, risks, issues, and inter-team dependencies.

• Elevate concerns that involve impact, ownership, mitigation strategies, and timing considerations.

• Aid in ensuring release readiness, checkpoints, demos, testing preparations, follow-ups, and delivery communications.

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Project Managers, Engineering, Quality, Business, Application Leadership, vendors, and technology teams.

• Foster continuous improvement through retrospectives, data-driven insights, and practical enhancements.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field is preferred, or equivalent professional experience.

• Over 5 years of experience in roles such as Scrum Lead, Agile Delivery Lead, Project Manager, or similar technology delivery positions.

• In-depth knowledge of Agile, Scrum, and SAFe methodologies.

• Proven experience in supporting planning and execution of delivery.

• Familiarity with Jira or similar Agile work management tools for tracking delivery, reporting, and team visibility.

• Strong communication skills to interact effectively with technical teams, business partners, vendors, and senior-level stakeholders.

• Excellent facilitation, organizational, problem-solving, prioritization, and influence abilities.

• Agile certification such as CSM, PSM, SSM, SASM, or equivalent is preferred.

• Experience in a scaled Agile environment, including PI Planning and cross-team dependency management, is preferred.

• Background in supporting enterprise applications, modernization projects, HR or Finance technologies, cloud platforms, data platforms, or shared service solutions is preferred.

• General understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, AWS, or contemporary application delivery concepts is preferred.

• Successful completion of a background check is required as a condition of employment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Group health insurance benefits (medical, vision, dental).

• FSA and HSA healthcare accounts.

• Life and accident insurance.

• Adoption and fertility assistance.

• Paid parental leave of up to 6 weeks.

• Short/long term disability coverage.

• Paid time off for vacations, personal needs, and sick days.

• Up to 17 days of Choice Time Off (CTO) per calendar year for new hires.

• Up to 11 paid holidays annually.

• 401(k) savings and investment plan or deferred compensation plan (if eligible).

• Employer match of 100% on the first 3% of contributions for eligible employees.

• Discretionary annual bonus.

• Reasonable accommodation assistance.