Position: Technical Project Manager
Company: Freelance
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 2y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-08-01T00:00:00+03:00

Snowball Money app, a decentralized mobile application that provides global users access to high-yield investment opportunities based on decentralized finance protocols on the Ethereum blockchain.

The Technical Project Manager, Scrum Master is chief responsible is to effectively and efficiently manage the development sprints from planning to execution to review in an agile development environment. Your role will include running daily scrums, managing the product backlog, collaborating on requirement documentation, managing support tickets and unblocking barriers to keep the team moving. You will be responsible to communicate and collaborate primarily with the engineering, customer success and senior management teams. 

The ideal candidate will be able to collaborate with cross-functional teams, demonstrate strong leadership abilities and have the desire to be part of a fast-growing startup company where you’ll have the opportunity to guide the development of our portfolio of products.
 
Responsibilities:
Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective
Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines
Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance
Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
Able to do post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their
practices to ensure maximum productivity
Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program
Implement and support principles, rules and processes
Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow
Maintain team data in project management software (i.e. JIRA, Confluence, etc.) to support estimates and execution
Presents high level project readouts for senior management
Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
Manage other special projects as assigned
Other duties as needed

 
Qualifications:
BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
Advanced level of English
Minimum 3 years of project management experience and 1 years leading sprints
Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum
Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices
Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’ needs.
Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and size story/epics
Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audience
Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning
Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email
Self-motivated, organized

We offer:
Competitive salary based on prior experience; 
Opportunities for professional and career growth;
Opportunity of business trips to other offices in Bali (Indonesia), San Francisco, Puerto Rico; 
Corporate celebrations and fun activities;