Project Manager / Product Owner

• Effectively applies our methodology and enforces project standards and minimizes our exposure and risk on Agile projects.
• Takes responsibility for product and project vision
• Collects and implements technical (functional and non-functional) requirements and creating backlogs; continuously prioritizes user stories
• Organization of sprint planning and retrospectives
• Monitors cost, quality and deadline of projects
• Prepares for engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures.
• Develops a test protocol for functional and technical testing
• Reviews deliverables prepared by team before passing to customer
• Ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately
• Participates in project team meetings when necessary to address critical issues and advice
• Recommends strategies for resolution of issues and provides direction and support to project team
• Ensures that all key decisions, feedback, questions and/or issues with customer have been thoroughly researched and communicated
• Can independently write a technical requirements specification or a technical concept
• Demonstrates leadership and confidence by proposing solutions to the customer; suggesting what should be done, how we will go about doing it, describing our assumptions and asking for feedback – rather than first asking the client for suggestions
• Shows insight into the root-causes of problems.
• Generates a range of solutions and courses of action with benefits, costs, and risks associated with each
• Effectively communicates relevant project information to superiors and resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion and with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions
• Customer consulting and design of solution approaches
• Customer communications, mind mapping, logging, results summary
• Prepares time estimates and quotes for new projects or larger changes of a project together with the sales team
• Cost estimation and preparation of proposalsUnderstands basic revenue models and cost-to-completion projections and makes decisions accordingly
• Accurately forecasts revenue, profitability, margins, bill rates and utilization.
  
  

• 3+ years work experience
  
• Experience in Scrum and other Agile methodologies, a plus
  
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; bilingual fluency in English
  
• Quality-oriented mindset, attention to details
  
• Self-motivated and goal-oriented; able to work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced
  production environment, with a high-energy, proactive style; brings well developed sense of
  urgency to all work
  
• Strong interpersonal skills; able to establish and maintain effective work relationships
  
• Sound judgment and decision-making ability; highly proficient in organization and planning
  
• Commitment to Web Essentials' values and mission
  

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