IT Project Manager

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Title: IT Project Manager

Location: Lehi. UT 84043

Duration:12 month Contract

Compensation: $40-$47hr

Work Requirements: , Holders or Authorized to Work in the US

• Mon- Fri 8am -5pm
• 4 days in the office
• Must have Jira Experience
  
  

VT Team Project Managers support development teams and guide projects through the entire project life cycle. This includes planning, prioritizing, scoping, gathering requirements, assigning resources, development, testing, and deployment.

They work closely with individual contributors and director-level staff, but they also interact with leaders across both technology and business teams.

The ideal candidate has proven experience as a technology project manager. They should enjoy working with business partners and engineers, be committed to improving processes and tools, and be highly organized, motivated, and creative. Understanding customer experience is also a plus.

What You Ll Do

• Drive relevant project management deliverables and facilitate effective user/customer conversations
• Transform requirements into feature specs /user stories
• Establish story acceptance criteria for the engineering team
• Actively address ambiguity and change in the product backlog
• Drive backlog grooming, sprint planning sessions with business and engineering teams
• Organize sprints, scrum meetings and delivery timelines
• Facilitate effective meetings with the engineering teams
  
  

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work closely with designers, engineers and quality assurance to ensure delivery against Revenue backlog and roadmap
• Identify risks, issues, and problems and escalate as appropriate, proposing mitigation plans to overcome obstacles
• Identify opportunities for usability testing and drive execution, measuring and report results
• Build and maintain relationships across organizations, with teams, and individuals
  
  

Required Skills, Experience & Education:

• Strong meeting facilitation, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to clearly communicate across levels of the organization and departments in writing, orally and interpersonally
• Effective problem solving and analytical skills
• Proven ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and manage priorities
• Effective planning and execution skills - ability to define and articulate a strong vision, create an actionable roadmap, and drive the team to execute
  
  

Preferred Skills, Experience & Education:

• Experience with Jira
• Experience using Smartsheets or other project management software
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite
  
  

What you need to succeed:

• Prior technical program management experience
• Effective communication with customers and remote team members is mandatory
• The ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial
• Strong negotiation and conflict-resolution skills
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Articulate in documenting product requirements, writing functional specs and user stories
• Adept at problem solving and driving the team towards solutions
• Ability to present convincingly to leaders, partners, and users/customers
• Show deep commitment to and empathy for the customer - design-thinking skills a plus
• Open minded, positive attitude and enjoy working in fun, high energy and fast paced environment
• Ability to craft clear, compelling recommendations supported by strong analysis and business logic, and articulate them to the organization to gain support for recommendations
• Ability to manage issue resolution and mitigate risk on the product roadmap
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle and agile development methodologies
• Experience in technology evaluations and proof-of-concept executions
  
  

Our benefits package includes:

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Competitive pay, 401(k)
• Retirement plan
• and much more!
  
  

About INSPYR Solutions

Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.

INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

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