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Job Description
LOCATION: Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Position Overview
- The Project Management Office is seeking a Project Manager who will plan, execute, manage and deliver complex, multi-dimensional projects in an Agile environment.
- You will support our Content Management teams, who are responsible for critical editorial platforms that power digital content across our suite of products.
- As the Project Manager, you will be directly accountable for managing cross-functional projects that enable and support business goals. You will lead, guide and motivate your agile teams to deliver strategic initiatives with operational excellence.
- This role requires strong communication, collaboration, and relationship building skills to effectively manage projects in a matrix environment with diverse teams, key stakeholders, and senior executives.
Job Responsibilities
- Facilitate and lead Agile ceremonies – daily standups, iteration planning, retrospectives, sprint reviews
- Coach teams on Agile practices and principles, delivering high quality products and services to our customers
- Resolve impediments and build consensus when conflicts arise
- Manage, assess, communicate, and improve project and team health using qualitative and quantitative measures
- Understand, advocate, and execute against business goals, driving projects and OKR delivery
- Collaborate with cross functional team members (product, design, engineering) to define goals and align strategy
- Identify project timelines, milestones, owners and manage execution against of milestones and key targets
- Coordinate with multiple teams (and project managers), driving alignment on project delivery
- Ensure transparency through communication and collaboration with all levels of business and technology
- Communicate project status and relevant information (including project meeting notes, decisions)
- Create and maintain project and team artifacts/documentation
- Manage project and sprint scope and unplanned requirements
- Identify and manage project risks, implement mitigation plans to minimize impact
- Evoke an appropriate sense of urgency around priorities within and across teams
Qualifications
- 5+ years of direct experience in a Project Manager role directly involved with managing and delivering technology projects
3+ years of experience in a Scrum Master capacity with Agile methodologies
3+ years of coaching teams on Agile best practices
- Must be willing to adhere to all Company COVID-19 workplace safety policies and protocols.
- In select work settings or where jurisdictionally mandated, must submit an attestation disclosing your COVID-19 vaccination status and be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or adhere to enhanced protocols.
Desired Qualifications
- Technical background
- Experience with JIRA and Confluence
- Excellent oral and written communications; ability to adapt messaging for diverse audiences
- Industry experience in new/interactive digital media and publishing tools
- Experience in establishing Agile and Project Management processes in forming environments
- Strong problem-solving/facilitation skills
- Strong dependency management skills
- Experience operating and influencing others in a matrix organization
Desired Characteristics
- Resourceful, self-motivated, proactive, self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit who takes initiative, works autonomously, anticipates issues, and identifies areas for improvement
- Detail-oriented, with a proven ability to deliver high quality products and polished deliverables
- Strong time management and organizational skills, able to multi-task multiple assignments
- Superior team building, networking and relationship-building skills, fostering a culture of collaboration throughout the organization
- Strong emotional intelligence and ability to empathize with others
- Excellent communication skills, effectively liaising and facilitating dialogue with diverse team members
- Inspires others through strong leadership skills and a positive attitude toward challenges and opportunities
- Strong critical and independent thinking and creative problem-solving skills
- Excellent negotiation skills and able to resolve conflicts judiciously, brokering win/win resolutions
- Ability to identify and apply structure to ambiguous and complex problems
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability in self, and instilling this in others through leading by example, setting expectations, and motivating others
- Pragmatic, data centric approach to decision making, problem solving, and continuous improvement
- Take your job seriously, but not yourself
Additional Information
NBCUniversal’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.
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