Noodle
A new kind of education network. Our programs enhance student-faculty engagement, lower costs & leverage opportunities.
201 - 500
💰 $50M Series C on 2021-10
Technical Project Manager
May 3
Noodle
A new kind of education network. Our programs enhance student-faculty engagement, lower costs & leverage opportunities.
201 - 500
💰 $50M Series C on 2021-10
Description
• Partner with engineering and product management to help define a strategic roadmap and deliver on business initiatives and key metrics. • Oversee end-to-end execution and delivery for major deliverables which includes dependency management, risk assessment, and issue/conflict resolution. • Actively promote and enable consistent engineering processes and practices in alignment with Agile methodologies. • Coordinating the schedule of meetings to seek alignment and understand project blockers. • Assist Product Development Managers with product backlog maintenance and with making appropriate commitments to deliver business value through story selection, the definition of tasks, and estimation. • Track, measure and communicate team velocity and sprint progress within the agreed reporting framework. • Ensuring team members have access to the dashboards they need to monitor quality and progress towards our KPIs and OKRs. • Organize and facilitate scrum events such as sprint and release planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, demos and other meetings as needed. • Strong project management skills; organized, extremely high attention to detail, able to manage multiple time-sensitive projects. • Maintain project schedules. • Ensure that all project and training documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
Requirements
• BA or BS degree, or equivalent experience/certification in a directly related discipline. • 4+ years of project management experience working with technology or software development teams using Agile methodologies • Proven track record of success delivering software or technology development/implementation projects using Scrum, Kanban, or SAFE. • Availability to work US hours • Excellent written and oral communication skills • Comfort with public speaking; ability to run focused and productive meetings • Excellent organisational, problem-solving, data-gathering, and documentation skills • Proficiency in creating and tracking tickets and project plans using project management tools (Jira, Confluence, Trello, Portfolio, Smartsheets, Monday.com, MS Project) • Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy • Ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously • Ability to work independently; comfort with ambiguity • Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to work as a part of a team • The ability to set up systems that keep all parties informed, accountable, and clear on expectations • High emotional intelligence and the ability to work closely ‒ yet respectfully ‒ with a wide array of professionals • Experience using Atlassian products (JIRA, Confluence, Trello) (Beneficial) • Knowledge of or experience working in or with one or more of the following technologies/subject areas: Data Engineering, Data Analytics, AWS, Tableau, or Salesforce CRM (Beneficial) • Certified Scrum Master, CAPM, or PMP certification (Beneficial)
Benefits
• The position will be located in South Africa and travel is expected periodically for company/team events. • This is a full-time position. • Remote working (within South Africa). • Yearly education allowance for lifelong learning. • Gym Allowance. • Internet Allowance. • Contribution to either Medical Aid or Retirement Annuity.
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