Project Manager III

Your opportunity to join a leading provider of Group Benefits. The US Group Benefits organization is a diverse team, all working towards the common goal of ensuring the customer is at the center of everything they do!

Project Manager III

• Location: Cary, NC Hybrid or Remote
• Contract Duration: 3 months ( Extension or Conversion to FTE possible)

About the Project Manager Role:

• Work with Product Managers to understand customer needs and business objectives that inform features and stories.
• Ensure work focuses on those stories with a maximum value, aligned with product strategy, roadmap, and key milestones.
• Help define, refine, prioritize, and accept the work delivered by an Agile team to ensure the outcome meets the defined feature acceptance criteria while the team works at a sustainable pace.
• Answer questions from the agile team so the team’s work flows without delay.
• Collaborate with POs on other teams to help the ART achieve its shared objectives.
• Make decisions to solve product related problems, trade-off discussions, to stay on track to committed outcomes.

Experience Required:

• Experience working in a Scaled Agile Framework (5 Years).
• Experience translating customer and business needs into technology solutions. (5 Years).
• Defining and prioritizing work for agile team so that it aligns with ART priorities and objectives (5 Years).
• Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders such as Product Managers, Release Train Engineers, Dev Leads, System Architects and Scrum Leads (5 Years).
• Strong advocate of promoting strong business owner and stakeholders collaboration (5 Years).

Skillsets:

• Effective feature writing (5 Years)
• Ability to work under minimal guidance (5 Years)
• Ability to write effective OKRs for team and contribute to ART level OKRs (5 Year)
• SAFe POPM and/or SAFe APM certification (strongly preferred)
• Tools Knowledge on Azdo and Target Process (Preferred but not required)
• Working knowledge of collaboration Tools MS Whiteboards, MIRO (5 years)

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Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Experience level:

• 3 years
• 5 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to Relocate:

• Cary, NC 27518: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Cary, NC 27518