Project Manager

Metal Toad is an award-winning AWS Consulting Partner and AWS Managed Services provider company based in the USA. We help our customers with their cloud adoption by providing architecture, migration, optimization, machine learning, and even 24x7 support. We are a professional services firm providing services in software engineering and the cloud. We do Technical consulting, Programming & Quality Assurance, DevOps, Applications, UX, Product management, and Project management.

Metal Toad is a fully remote organization with all employees having the option to work from home. The candidate must be able to work between 8 AM and 5 PM Pacific Time (PST) from Monday through Friday.

Advanced to fluent proficiency in English is a must for our positions since it is the language we communicate at the company.

Job description 

As Project Manager, you know a good Jira ticket when you see it. You understand our client’s business, and you know how products impact our clients’ organizations. You block and tackle developers, remove dependencies before they become problems, and can plug a rabbit hole before it swallows the whole sprint. 

You have a strong gut sense for which direction to head, and you’re always asking questions. You can identify risks, conceptualize multiple scenarios, and chart a path to success. You are goal-oriented, and you believe in continuous improvement.

The Project Manager primary goal is to help our clients succeed, learn, and innovate. You excel at communicating with stakeholders of all levels, inspire trust, and have a shared sense of purpose within the project team. While you can see the big picture, you are also detail-oriented and able to break down large tasks into manageable steps that are documented, monitored, and controlled. 

Metal Toad is a fully remote company, so our work model is online. The candidate must be able to work between 8-9 am and 5-6 pm Pacific Time (PST) from Monday through Friday.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership

• Maintain a positive and respectful tone in all interactions
• Avoid CYA like the plague and never say, "Not my job.”
• Ensure project success

Project Management

• Work closely with an agile development team throughout the entire project lifecycle
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies, including daily sprints, mid-sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Facilitate continuous improvements of the team and its processes using a servant leadership style
• Identify and resolve problems, questions, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions
• Track team velocity, health, and sprint progress and surface risks to the appropriate stakeholders
• Own budgets, timelines, scope, and risks 
• Act as the client’s primary contact on projects and radiate information and transparency.
• Provide high levels of client communication and customer service
• Take clear notes on action items and effectively disseminate information and tasks to the team
• Report weekly to the manager on project health (including budgets, schedules, and scope concerns)
• Report weekly/monthly status updates to clients

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• 1-2 years of experience in project management  or other applicable roles
• Certification in Scrum, SAFE, Agile, PMP, or other project management system
• Direct work experience in the digital realm and knowledge of development project life cycles
• Direct work experience with a variety of software development methodologies and project management tools, i.e., SCRUM/Agile and Kanban