Senior Project Manager

Your day-to-day activities:

• Managing the teams of 20+ people (Scrum Masters, Architects, Tech Leads, DevOps, Developers, QAs)
• Leading the People Management process (as a team with HR, Program Manager ): one-on-one meetings, managing employees retention risks, maintaining high motivation, team building etc.
• Identifying risks and issues, working on the mitigation strategies and communicate to stakeholders
• Coaching of individual team members and teams to make sure constant development
• Setting clear goals to individuals, helping with impediments
• Providing regular feedbacks to team members (3-month, half-year, yearly)
• Monitoring and managing team dynamics. During the “turbulence” help the teams to find the constructive ways to deal with the root-causes
• Auditing SDLC, Scrum process with further communication of discovered gaps to stakeholders on client side
• Helping engineering leaders from client side with observations, team management, initiatives, stimulation, communication on Newfire Team
• Working closely with Customer Success Manager to report the status and proactively identify & remove roadblocks
• As a Senior team member, you will be expected to actively participate in our hiring processes by serving on interview panels for future roles across the company.

You’re a perfect match if you have:

• Experience in project management (or/and SM experience)
• Deep understanding of SDLC/PDLC
• Deep understand of QA tools, practices and methodologies
• Experience with Jira, Confluence or similar
• Understanding of Agile philosophy and experience with frameworks (Scrum/Kanban) and scaled frameworks (SAFe, Less, Nexus)
• English level: Advanced
• Executive communication skills
• Previous experience with healthcare, ideally US-based

• Experience in product management
• Experience in VUCA environments
• Technical background