Project Manager, Principal - Agile
Blue Shield of CA | |
United States, California, Oakland | |
601 12th Street (Show on map) | |
Oct 04, 2024 | |
Your Role The Marketing and Digital Program Management Office is seeking a Principal Agile Project Manager to manage and drive delivery of strategic and operational initiatives. This position supports the Marketing and Digital Portfolio and will report to the Director, Project Management Office. Initiatives are complex and delivered using Agile practices with people, process, technology, and multiple stakeholder impacts. Proven history of delivering complex implementations in digital and data disciplines is required. The Agile Principal Project Manager acts as a technical and business initiative leader. This role partners with the technical and business drivers and product owners/managers to deliver required capabilities (business value), including management of schedule, scope, IT and business resources, financials, benefit tracking, and issue/risk identification and mitigation to ensure successful completion of initiatives. This role is the single point of accountability for delivery and status within an assigned initiative or product area, including matrix management of business teams, systems, digital, data, infrastructure, and multiple vendor delivery teams. The Agile Principal Project Manager partners with multiple delivery portfolios and product teams to drive initiative-based activities to achieve required business value. Accountable for developing, managing, and monitoring estimates, budget, forecasts, and accruals, this role is also responsible for managing and maintaining Jira records and dashboards throughout delivery and representing and advocating for delivery team during intake and quarterly delivery planning. The Agile Principal Project Manager provides direct management of schedule, sprint planning issues/risks, budget, and resources, managing initiatives of $10M+ or larger. With the Owner and Driver, you will define initiative/product delivery governance, product, and Agile team structure. This role makes sure epics are created in Jira, manages updates and dependencies within initiatives, and documents and maps enabling epics. The Agile Principal Project Manager tracks initiative and product capability, and delivery against major milestones, business outcomes, and quarterly key metrics. This role defines, implements, and facilitates change management, ensures compliance, and business and operational readiness. This role works with Scrum Master(s) to make sure initiative communication is effective and Agile practices are followed (e.g., Daily Stand Ups, Demos, Retrospectives). Communication competency is key as you will lead and facilitate initiative meetings and executive and senior leadership briefings and demos. The Agile Principal Project Manager may directly manage or perform duties as a Project Manager, Product Manager, and/or Scrum Master on an initiative. Accountable for monitoring the teams' work and completion progress in PlanView, this role may also perform matrix management for initiative and product staff. Your Work In this role, you will:
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