Project Manager/Scrum Master - A6419

Nisum is a leading global digital commerce firm headquartered in California, with services spanning digital strategy and transformation, insights and analytics, blockchain, business agility, and custom software development. Founded in 2000 with the customer-centric motto “Building Success Together®,” Nisum has grown to over 1,800 professionals across the United States, Chile,Colombia, India, Pakistan and Canada. A preferred advisor to leading Fortune 500 brands, Nisum enables clients to achieve direct business growth by building the advanced technology they need to reach end customers in today’s world, with immersive and seamless experiences across digital and physical channels.

• Responsible for program/projects, portfolio, planning, and execution of Digital projects.
• Lead and manage programs with cross-functional project teams, demonstrate a sense of urgency to drive programs and projects to completion, and be successful in a collaborative environment.
• Develop plans and track the progress of projects to successful completion.
• Track dependencies across complex strategic projects
• Work closely with Business, Product management, and IT teams to collaborate on roadmap planning, dependency mapping, intake and change request process, and tracking status.
• Ability to handle multiple projects at any given time.
• Ability to do project planning, budget estimation and management, resource /capacity planning and assessment, financial planning, and audit tracking.
• Driving engineering metrics and best practices for the portfolio
• Adoption of existing Project Management best practices, including the proficient use of industry-standard tools, technologies, and methodologies
• Well-organized, detail-oriented, has great communication skills, and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Communicate status, issues, and risks to executive-level stakeholders.
• Partner with the Program/Portfolio Lead, Customer and Digital Leadership Team, and others to prepare presentations and other communications for leadership/business reviews, steering committee meetings, and other forums.
• Lead ad hoc special projects as needed for the leadership team.
• Performs the role of the owner of the financial position of all managed projects.
• Flexibility and ability to work collaboratively within a matrix, 'virtual' environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work with external vendors.

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in project planning, scheduling, and execution of large IT transformation projects
• Strong
• Proven ability to solve problems creatively
• Extensive experience with Agile Methodologies
• Experience leading Scrum Teams involving multiple stakeholders
• Experience with Quarterly Planning, Budgeting, planning and estimations
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management
• Can adopt to fast pace work environment

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Applications, or related field.

• In addition to competitive salaries and benefits packages, Nisum US offers its employees some unique and fun extras:
• Professional Development - We offer in-house technical training and professional learning programs aimed at developing skills across a broad spectrum of topics such as technology, leadership, role-based training, and process expertise. We also offer an annual stipend for employees to attend external courses in order to maintain professional certifications
• Health & Wellness Benefits - We believe that your health and welfare are important, and we strive to ensure that you have affordable options available to you, including some plans that are subsidized for employees and their families by up to 90%. We also have dental and vision plans in the US where Nisum pays 100% of premiums for employees
• Volunteerism Pay - We believe in giving back and in the US, our employees are eligible for up to 40 hours of paid time off each year to volunteer towards the causes that they are most passionate about. This is in addition to personal PTO and paid holidays
• Additional Benefits - We offer all the other important benefits to keep employees and their families healthy and financially secure, such as 401(k) retirement savings with a company match, pre-tax parking and transit programs, disability insurance, and Basic Life/AD&D, alongside exclusive employee discounts on a wide variety of products and services

• $110-115k per year

Nisum is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity and inclusion in the workplace.