As a Sr. TPM you will act as the Scrum Master for one agile team consisting of around 12 developers. You will be part of the discovery services team/backend API group responsible for features and recommendations and search. There is not one specific project, there is a series of projects supporting ongoing feature enhancements to the Pluto TV Application. This is an important role with a wide range of responsibilities, including:
– Manage day-to-day agile ceremonies at the team level.
– Drive cross-team communication and maintain healthy cross-team relationships by providing accurate and proactive project tracking to the larger organization.
– Participating in quarterly big-room planning, balancing dependencies with the Program Management Office, and setting delivery dates.
– Implementing agile best practices to govern the team.
– Actively identifying and removing impediments that may impact team velocity or deliverables.
– Working as a servant-leader within the team, using leadership skills to cultivate healthy and productive working relationships.
Required Skills & Experience
– 5+ years experience as an agile project manager/scrum master and knowledge of Agile principles (Scrum and/or Kanban). Specific experience implementing agile with new teams and acting as an organizational change agent.
– Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent certification required. Agile certifications such as PMI-ACP, CSP, SPC4 (or higher), or SA are recommended.
– Solid understanding of agile software development methodologies, with demonstrated success driving those teams to higher levels of productivity and efficiency.
– Experience working as part of a larger PMO to deliver complex solutions, working through an agile process to call out issues, remove impediments, and manage risk.
– Experience resolving conflicts within the development team and coaching teams to become better-aligned and higher functioning, with an eye on leveraging those team skills to increase the speed and quality of software delivery.
– Experience managing expectations, negotiating compromises, and interfacing between a technical team and business partners.
– Familiarity with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), REST JSON APIs, and client side integrations are a plus.
Experience with the Google Suit and Atlassian suite – Jira
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.