Job Description
iTalent Digital is seeking a Technical, Agile Project Manager to join our dynamic team of professional technology consultants. This is an exciting role and the individual selected will help our leading retail client reach their strategic initiatives.
You will join our Digital Transformation and PMO Group. 90% of your work will be client focused. 10% of your work will be internal.
Remote is ok with Pacific time zone working hours
OR - Bay Area preferred for 1-3 days in the SF client office
The internal responsibilities will be as follows:
- Attend regular internal practice community meetings.
- Collaborate with your iTD practice team on industry thought leadership.
- Complete client case studies and learning material. (Blogs, media material).
- Build out material to contribute to Digital Transformation practice.
- Attend internal iTD networking events (in person and virtual).
- Work with leadership on career fast-track opportunities.
As a Project Manager, you'll have excellent relationship building, leadership, project and team management skills and the ability to deliver business results with quality. You will bring a breadth of experience that will make you a valuable contributing member of the project team and not just a task driver and status provider. This is an exciting area of the company delivering cutting edge solutions.
- Leverage your stores, retail technology, and POS (preferred) experience to roll out initiatives at brick and mortar stores.
- Run Scrum teams using Agile methodologies using JIRA.
- Work with both internal and external stakeholders ensuring all milestones are tracked and reported.
- Communicate clearly possess strong business acumen and ability to influence cross-collaborative teams are essential for these roles.
- Plan, schedule, estimate, coordinate, manage, and deliver the projects within our waterfall and agile hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Ensure development and project processes are followed for successful implementations (for planning, implementation, testing) and ensure that exceptions to the process be transparent with risks understood and approved at appropriate organizational levels.
- Oversee the daily progress of the store digital projects with regard to time, budget, scope, and quality.
- Understand downstream impact of issues and effectively and proactively inform and escalate to key stakeholders.
- Proactively and aggressively manage project risk and issues defining mitigation efforts.
- Represent the PMO and PMO expectations within the project team.
Required qualifications and skills:
- Be able to clearly articulate the stages of a project you have led, including your specific contributions, stakeholders involved, and the business outcome.
- 4+ years in project management. Preferably in the Retail store digital space (store technologies). Delivery of technology solutions in retail stores, working with merchants payment services and processing a huge plus.
- Experience in Agile and scrum master and sprint planning, well organized, with solid communication.
- JIRA experience.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience ability to quickly identify critical decision points and any potential project risks, provide solutions to team.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and excel in a dynamic and fast paced environment with critical deadlines to meet.
- Effectively collaborate and influence in a highly-matrixed organization.
- Strong communication skills and proven ability to communicate at all organizational levels.
Education
Company description
You will be a valued team member in joining an established client team, the Retail Industry group and PMO Practice community at iTalent Digital.
About iTalent Digital:
We are part of a new generation of consulting and software development company that blends diversity, innovation, and integrity with real business results. Our structure rejects any strong hierarchy, empowering us to deliver excellent results. We are a woman- and minority-led firm. Every day, we challenge ourselves to be considerate, fair and to re-think what great outcomes mean for our customers. This permeates down to how we approach every interaction, on every project, for every client. You’ll thrive here if you are a dynamic self-starter, a difference-maker or someone who wants to deliver great results, without constraints.
The iTalent Digital Experience:
Joining us means you’ll be part of our global community, you have a say about your own career journey, and you’ll get a chance to give back to causes that matter. You will experience working with Fortune 500 companies and high-performance teams across numerous industries.
iTalent Digital offers our employees excellent benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, PTO, 401K + matching, networking & career learning and development programs. We are growing and we want to see you grow!
Visit https://www.italentdigital.com/careers to learn more about what working at iTalent can mean for you.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
iTalent is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact us at recruiting@italentdigital.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
