Job Description :
Job Title: Digital Project Manager
Location: Detroit,Mi
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Summary:
We’re looking for an experienced, talented, creative and adaptable Digital Project Manager who’s familiar with Agile and wants to help us create a great customer experience.
The Project Manger oversees several tracks of high-profile work.
On a daily basis, he or she will be planning resource allocation, overseeing sprint planning and execution, and providing our leadership with visibility into our digital team’s progress.
He or she will be a great relationship builder and will serve as a primary contact for our stakeholders and help them prioritize their requirements. In addition, the Digital Project Manger should be able to facilitate team meetings, review sessions, stand ups and retrospectives.
He or she should be able to guide our analysts as they write great user stories and also be able to work with the business lead in grooming and managing the project backlog.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Understanding of how to run an Agile team within a waterfall company
Leading all sprints to successful implementation
Developing and maintaining a list of features and product backlog
Ability to easily manage multiple streams of work
Oversee functional requirements and user stories prepared by our digital analysts.
Facilitate client and project team meetings
Lead estimation/sizing and sprint reviews with development teams
Work with business lead to prioritize backlog prioritization
Keep business units/stakeholders informed of progress and changes throughout project lifecycle
Act as communication liaison between business, technology and all supporting teams
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred
Three (3) to five (5) years of project management experience
SCRUM certification is desired but not required
PMP certification is desired but not required
Other Requirements:
Passion for great customer experience
High familiarity with web best practices
Strong attention to detail and a rigorous focus on delivering quality output
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to talk knowledgeably with members of both the commercial and development teams
An outgoing personality, a can-do attitude and a great sense of humor
Solid understanding of web development environments, sufficient to understand the implications of issues within web-based applications
Ability to lead and contribute to process improvement projects involving online applications and tasks
Superb written and oral communication skills
Preferred Requirements:
Experience using JIRA and Greenhopper
Experience using Microsoft Project
Experience working on a corporate web team or within a digital agency
OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
May be required to work after normal business hours including weekends.
Other requirements may be necessary to perform this