Full-Time Project Manager
First American Financial Corporation is hiring a remote Full-Time Project Manager. The career level for this job opening is Manager and is accepting USA based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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HOW YOU'LL CONTRIBUTE
- Organize scrum ceremonies including daily standup, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Partner with Product Owners and Software Development teams to achieve business objectives.
- Assist with refining and maintaining product backlog, as needed.
- Act as a liaison between the team and others, minimizing interruptions to the sprint, keeping the team focused on delivering a quality product.
- Plan and execute within the commitments and roadmap developed.
- Assist the team through maturity of agile and scrum processes, improving delivery and confidence in commitments.
- Independently oversee small to large projects.
- Coordinates project deliverables, plans and status reports.
- Identifies appropriate resources needed and coordinates schedules to ensure timely completion of project
- Creates project plans specifying goals, strategy, and staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, budgets, and allocation of available resources.
- Facilitates status and milestone meetings with cross functional groups.
- Conducts risk monitoring and controls during a project's duration to ensure ability to achieve expected outcomes, on time and on budget.
- Works closely with end users, business technologies and others to understand and prioritize business goals and information needs related to the project.
- Monitors project budgets including project cost estimates and forecasting.
- Prepares project status reports and keeps team, management and clients informed of project status and related issues.
- May be required to perform duties outside of normal work hours based on business needs.
- Other duties as assigned
WHAT YOU'LL BRING
Required Education, Experience, Certification/Licensure
- Generally, requires BS Degree in a business field or equivalent work experience.
- Typically have 4-7 years of directly related experience
- 2-5 years of using Scrum agile methodology
- PMP Desirable
- CSM (Certified Scrum Master) Preferred
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification preferred
This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.