Sr. Project Manager

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At Valtech, you’ll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact, and professional growth.

Whether you're pioneering new digital solutions, challenging conventional thinking or building the next generation of customer experiences, your work will help transform industries.

The ideal Sr. Project Manager is innovative, working as a servant leader of their team, leading the team through refinement, planning and delivery of scope. Focused on facilitating the successful delivery of CMS Platform experiences that serve the needs of authors and end users. Working closely with client stakeholders, business users, and cross-functional delivery teams over the lifecycle of a project to gather and document solution requirements and to drive solution design in partnership with product ownership, UX design, and technical leadership.

This role manages in partnership with client product ownership.

• A disciplined organizer who thrives on keeping projects on track
• Skilled at managing scope, budget, and timelines in fixed-fee engagements
• Comfortable leading distributed teams across multiple time zones and locations
• Adept at building trust with clients through transparency, consistency, and delivery excellence

Role responsibilities

• Manage CMS Platform projects from UXR through Design and Build
• Understand CMS Platform and lead with platform knowledge driving UI / UX best commerce experience.
• Driving system demonstrations and training to client business users.
• Facilitating all necessary team meetings (sprint planning, dailystandups, sprint reviews/retrospectives, etc.)
• Facilitating Agile release planning and helping the PO manage the release backlog.
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to defining and prioritizing the product backlog
• Ensuring transparency in the team’s work through the Sprint Backlog, Burndown Chart and other Agile metrics
• Leading by example - knowing when, and how, to push for more results
• Proactively identifying and removing impediments that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver Sprint commitments
• Being the coach and all around advocate for Agile delivery methodology amongst project team and client stakeholders
• Influencing software development lifecycles (plan, design, development, testing, and deployment) and work with both the business and technology teams
• Facilitating necessary team meetings including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews & Retrospectives, along with ensuring effective backlog refinement
• Conducting business analysis and translating business requirements to customer experience and development needs
• Providing recommendations catered to client industries and their customers

Must have qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a delivery lead role within a software development Agile environment, product experience is a plus
• 5+ years of experience with a Content Management System; Optimizely, Contentful, etc.
• Experience leading global Agile team of 8+ developers and designers to develop the client’s prioritized features with product owner responsibility of feature sign-off and approval
• Demonstrated success in iterative release of software systems
• Demonstrated experience implementing AI on delivery software solutions
• Experience managing project budgets of $5 million+
• Deep understanding of empirical data needed for stakeholder reporting and team measurement.
• Proven ability to manage budget, forecast, margin and utilization of project team in a Fixed Fee or Time & Material setting
• Experience working with Rally/Jira or a similar project management software

Nice to have qualifications

• Knowledge of traditional SDLC
• Prior experience in the Financial Services industry
• Proven ability to bring transparency to the business team about development; growing trust while demonstrating your commitment to deliverables to the business team.
• Experience with identifying delivery issues and risks, and a sense of urgency for removing blocks and driving continuous improvement
• PMP & CSM or other Agile certifications

This is a full-time position based in Canada.

The offered salary range is $89,000-$132,000 annually, depending on experience and location.

• Flexibility, with remote and hybrid work options (country-dependent)
• Career advancement, with international mobility and professional development programs
• Learning and development, with access to cutting-edge tools, training and industry experts
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, plus employer contribution to Health Savings Accounts