Job Description:
Remote working is the new norm. It's not just for pandemics. Do you want to avoid a daily commute, reduce stress, achieve a work-life balance, spend more time with your family/friends, be more creative and improve your productivity? At RemoteStar, we follow a remote-first work policy. If you're passionate about working from wherever you want, helping lead start-ups and scale-ups, RemoteStar can be a great fit. At RemoteStar we help both employers and employees to build a great remote-team culture, reduce overheads and improve productivity while doing very cool work.
About Role - Remote Agile Project Manager
A UK-based digital product company is looking for a dynamic, creative, Agile Project Manager to help produce financial/investment data, charts, and dashboards for their clients.
This is a fully remote role and requires fluency in written and verbal English.
As an Agile Project Manager, you will be coordinating activities across multiple projects and teams to drive client projects, and complex financial data project success. This is a full-time permanent role for a true self-starter, someone who wants to build something from the beginning.
As our Remote Agile Project Manager you will be responsible for :
- Tracking down all the requirements in JIRA and governing managing project documentation.
- Managing projects towards successful completion, Create, track and report on project timelines.
- Facilitating across multiple teams, bridging the gaps between Product Owners and Technical Leads.
- Ensuring formalized Project, Schedule and Resource management.
- Creating and managing project documentation such as project charter’s, requirements gathering documents.
- Producing and distributing status and tracking reports for internal and external team members and senior management.
- Managing resource work logs and managing capacity & Maintaining project management information and tracking systems.
- Meeting with team members on a regular basis regarding project tasks to ensure project milestones are met
- Leading problem solving and resolution efforts. & Driving Agile process improvement.
- According to the "Inspect & Adapt" principle, you use your technical knowledge to continuously analyse and increase the efficiency of the development processes and monitor the quality of the work results by suitable agile measures.
- Ensuring development teams are following the core agile principles.
- Removing impediments that would prevent the team from achieving its sprint goals (internal to the team as well as external, dealing with all crossfunctional teams as appropriate)
- Actively communicate with the stakeholders, team members, and clients.
What do we value
- Degree educated in a relevant subject.
- Substantial related experience( 3+) in technical project management.
- Several years (3+) of proven experience working in agile.
- Knowledge of Scrum/Agile.
- Strong software and computer skills, including MS Office applications, JIRA, Confluence
- Demonstrated ability to deliver results to the appropriate quality and timeline metrics
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills
- A thorough understanding of business requirements and the requirements gathering process
- The ability to lead from within the team, able to make people follow you.
- Excellent customer service skills
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, managers and clients
- Creative problem-solving skills.
- A results-focused mindset.
- Ability to work in a diverse, multi-cultural, remote-team environment.
- Great English communication skills as well as collaboration skills and strong teamwork. mentality. - You must be fluent in English.
- Able to proactively communicate with non-technical stakeholders, manage expectations, and explain the value of addressing technical debt.
What do we offer?
- Participate in open, fun, entrepreneurial and creative company culture and work with unique and innovative clients.
- Be part of a global, distributed organisation with international opportunities.
- Work from the location of your choice with remote and flexible working — we trust you to work whenever and wherever you feel most productive.
- Competitive compensation.
- Project and feature ownership — you get to contribute and own parts of apps and/or products.
- Unlimited annual leave; we do our best work when we’re feeling refreshed so take the time you need to relax!
- Found a great book, meetup or conference? We support your continued learning!
- It’s important to stay healthy, so we have a wellness benefit towards your total health.
- BYOD – You are welcome to work from your own choice of laptop and we will contribute towards that.
About Company
We are RemoteStar, a team of experienced engineering and people leaders on a mission to transform how we work.
Were not your typical workplace. At RemoteStar, we believe in data-driven decision making and the importance of flexibility, fun, passion, personal growth, and transparency. And were doing everything we can to make sure you’re enjoying every minute you spend with us.
Here at RemoteStar, we’re passionate about creating an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. Everyone is welcome. We don’t discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic including race, religion or belief, gender or gender reassignment, age, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability. We want to facilitate everyone in bringing their best selves to our interviews, so if there are any adjustments we can make for our process to be more inclusive, please let us know.
