* Sr. Project Manager (Agile) (387)

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Amplify Consulting Partners is a data-first consulting company trusted by Fortune 500 businesses to deliver high-impact professional services across the technology ecosystem—from data engineering and visual analytics to data-driven marketing and program management

We build and empower high-performing people by promoting growth and connection across our company culture. We don't just hang core values on the wall, we make every decision with them in mind—developing trusted, long-term relationships on a foundation of transparency and accountability.

DEI STATEMENT

We hold ourselves accountable for creating an authentic workplace where every person feels heard and experiences a sense of belonging.

We believe that organizations can be an instrument for positive human impact when they champion a diverse, inclusive, and equitable environment. We do this at Amplify by enacting programs and policies that promote DEI—and with humility, if we miss the mark, we rigorously amend our practices to better achieve our targeted outcomes.

Simply put, we turn our words into action.

Sprint Management:  

• Act as lead team spokesperson on delivery related items with responsibility for communicating the “story of the sprint”, including delivery stats, overall trends, etc.  
• Maintain accurate and projected capacity plan at all times. 
• Ensure appropriate backlog refinement activities are taking place – to maintain at least 1 sprints worth of groomed stories at all times.  
• Ensure Epics/Features are reflected accurately for a specific piece of work so that status tracking can be done accurately. 
• Facilitate specific agile ceremonies:  

• Team Demo’s 
• Retro’s 
• Daily Standups 
• Scrum of Scrums 
• Sprint Planning Meetings 
• Etc.

• Capture, track and remove team blockers, escalating as needed. 
• Capture, track and manage funnel and/or initiative specific RAID (risk, agreement, issue, decision) items.  Escalate as needed. 
• Capture, track and coordinate dependencies across all funnel related work items in advance of sprints actual start.
• Ensure backlog health is maintained and ticket refinement ceremonies are consistent and effective (working with the aligned Business Analyst).
• Update directly or ensure maintenance by others of Jira and Confluence data at all times, ensuring accuracy of data leveraged within the Scrum master dashboard.  
• Leverage the Scrum master dashboard metrics for decision making activities, presenting the information to others as required.  Continue to provide feedback and ideas on improving the dashboard and driving a fact-based approach to decision making.
• Maintain initiative specific timelines and report initiative level status updates as appropriate 
• Ensure communication occurs with all key stakeholders when sprints are defined (i.e sprint plans are set).  
• Ensure all funnel specific quarterly planning activities are handled within a timely manner and in a way that ensures the teams are able to develop, represent and finalize their plans during the QPR cycle.  

 Team Performance/Advocacy:  

• Key advocate for team members as needed and as it relates to sprint work.  
• Safeguard the team and their efforts to ensure delivery health and performance meets expectations without burn out.  
• Maintain a pulse on overall team vibrations, sharing with others as appropriate.
• Ensure teams processes are being followed, identifying areas where developing individual team members would increase overall team effectiveness.  
• Partner effectively with the Product Manager along with the full team, to ensure successful enrollment occurs across all team members.

 Delivery Management: 

• Account for production support efforts within the Capacity Plans and subsequent Sprint Plans developed with the team.  
• Provide inputs to aligned tech managers of trends or blockers associated with Dev team.  
• Develop and manage milestones and task level activities to ensure visibility and adherence to target schedule.
• Communicate and engage with key stakeholders, keeping them informed on delivery activities, timelines and blockers.
• Manage RAID items, escalating to leadership as needed to ensure delivery activities continue as planned.
• Ensure performance against quarterly plan, escalating blockers or impacts to delivery per plan as needed.  Update quarterly plan as required, sharing with key stakeholders when changes occur. 
• Partner with Product Managers on quarterly plan activities, as appropriate. 
• Protect the Sprint, once finalized, negotiating as needed when new items come in at the last minute. 
• Manage unplanned incoming items, ensuring Intake processes are followed as appropriate. Work with the Product Manager, shifting work as needed while ensuring communication or quarterly plans are updated as needed. Draft Quarterly Plan Change Requests as required.
• Work with Project/Program Managers on resource/work activities as if appropriate.
• Establish and track team working agreements. 
• Manage dependencies across teams or dependencies coming from other teams that need to be delivered by your team
• Coordinating projects/initiatives that are being delivered by the team, ensuring that critical project meetings are happening and the project is being delivered successfully by the team

 Process Improvement (PI):  

• Ensure a continual process improvement focus exists across the team, supporting an environment of experimentation and new practice trials.
• Contribute to and lead Process Improvement activities as appropriate.   
• Partner with peer Scrum Leaders to share and leverage lessons learned, fostering a PI culture at all times. 

 Team Culture:  

• Celebrate and communicate team successes including calling out positive team behaviors or individual contributions.  
• Partner closely with the Product Managers and team members to identify opportunities to work closely/collaboratively within the team and across teams. 
• Build time for fun time with the team. 
• Identify and address with individuals or the group those behaviors that run counter to positive team culture. 
• Maintain regular 1:1 contact with each team member.
• Foster collaborative and productive culture. 
• Foster trust within the team, people speaking up at meetings, etc., etc. 

OUR HIRING PRACTICES 

At Amplify, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. We are committed to creating a diverse and welcoming workplace that includes all employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We believe it enables us to better meet our mission and values while serving clients throughout our communities. People of color, women, LGBTQIA+, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal state and local ordinances. Amplify is committed to offering reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].