Program Manager

Program Manager, Coinme 

Reporting to Sr Tech Project Mgr

Purpose

Proactively plan, prioritize, and coordinate project activities to ensure timely delivery of features and platform improvements to delight our customers.  This role will make  recommendations from the requirements phase through to deployment and plot the course that cross-functional teams follow to make sound decisions when business needs meet technical realities.  This role will “make the news”, not  just “report the news”, and will be hands-on, directly influencing the success of fast moving projects and agile development teams.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver features and improvements to the Coinme platform. 
• Proactively plan, prioritize and coordinate project activities from project requirements phase to deployment phase to ensure timely deliveries.
• Assess tradeoffs and provide recommendations on how to resolve tradeoffs between business needs and technical realities.
• Partner with and communicate to stakeholders from the executive team down to individual contributors to ensure common understanding on how problems are being solved and what issues are present.
• Perform resource allocation, workload assignment and schedule management activities to meet project milestones.
• Communicate project status regularly and maintain project documentation to keep the entire organization informed and aligned.
• Identify project risks and dependencies and develop appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.
• Manage escalation effectively with external and internal communications
• Oversee daily operations of project teams and provide direction whenever needed, including acting as the Scrum Master for multiple Agile teams. Running daily stand-ups, organizing sprints, working very closely with the PM, Design, Development and QA teams to ensure consistently successful sprint cycles that achieve desired team and organizational goals.
• Address queries from customers and management in a timely manner.
• Ensure that project deliverables meet quality standards and customer expectations.
• Identify areas of improvements and concerns and develop action plans.

Basic Qualifications: 

• 3+ years experience in project/program management for software projects.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle such as requirement, implementation, testing, and acceptance
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Prior experience of working in Agile Development Environment and exposure to basic scaled Agile practices
• Experience in Finance Technology is a plus

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