Job description
REMOTE - EMEA Region
- Azarc is looking for a highly-skilled, self-motivated, and well-organized Agile Project Manager to join our world-class global team in delivering solutions to the logistics industry and beyond.
- Azarc develops digital threading software that enables inter-business and inter-sovereign collaboration in a secure and decentralized environment with an emphasis on transparency, security and fair value exchange. Azarc's Verathread platform creates distributed workflows where multiple companies with legacy systems and disparate data can work together to provide more efficient and reliable end-to-end automation.
- Our platform can leverage both legacy systems and cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain to provide our clients with all the tools they need to automate end-to-end business processes across organizational and geographical barriers.
The ideal candidate has:
- A track record of project management in a software design, development, or digital design environment
- An understanding of what it takes to build great web and mobile applications
- Ability to manage multiple work streams and galvanize the team to pull together and reach challenging milestones on time
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, can communicate complex, technical concepts at the right level for the intended audience.
- Attention to detail
- A minimum of 4 years of hands-on relevant software project experience
- A mindset that thrives in an environment where everyone pulls together toward a common goal, actively contributing their talent and experience
Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain and monitor project plans, project schedules, and work hours
- Lead and deliver projects and products that exceed client expectations within the project budget
- Facilitating sprint ceremonies (Grooming, Pre-planning, Planning, and Standups)
- Plan, execute, manage, and deliver large projects from strategy and design to implementation.
- Run daily standups
- Manage and facilitate stakeholder meetings and project deadlines
- Provide detailed reporting at the end of Sprints
- Create a project management calendar for fulfilling each project goal and objective
- Facilitate meetings and present during them to communicate project status
- Document and follow up on important actions and decisions from meetings
- Proactively ensure important tasks and decisions are taking place on schedule
- Support requirements gathering facilitation by preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings
- Undertake project tasks and assist with project strategies through the implementation
- Ensure documentation is maintained and organized appropriately for each project
Key Skills & Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in business, IT, or a related field of study
- 3+ years of experience managing business strategy and technical projects that require client/ stakeholder interaction
- Experience working in the different stages of the SDLC.
- Comfort with navigating ambiguity and rapidly evolving client needs.
- Ability to quickly learn new technical concepts with minimal guidance
- Manage and mentor team members
- Experience working with Agile teams and familiar with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
Preferred Skills and Experience
- PMP certification
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Familiarity with project management tools (ie- Trello, JIRA, etc.)