Technical Project Manager, Senior Scrum Master
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Technical Project Manager, Senior Scrum Master

Location: San Francisco, CA- United States

Job ID: 18WD30387

Position Overview

Do you want to create engaging, helpful, and attractive websites that are frequented by millions of visitors worldwide? Autodesk's Web Platform Engineering team is looking for a talented technical project manager/scrum master who is passionate about technology and agile practices to join our globally distributed team and help us develop beautiful, personalized web and ecommerce experiences.

You will lead the agile/scrum practice along with other scrum masters/TPMs to lead sprint teams into successful completion of sprints. You will also work with product owners and product managers to facilitate conversations within and outside of the sprint teams. Reporting to Manager of technical project management, you will also manage the project once the WPE team accepts it until we deliver it to the business.

Responsibilities

* Be Agile champion and guide one or more teams in adaption of agile/scrum principles
* Monitors team activity and guides workload commitments
* Remove ambiguity by connecting with external teams or individuals so sprint progresses as schedule
* Shield the team from external interferences that can jeopardize sprint goals
* Keep team members engaged, involved and informed
* Maintain data integrity, completeness and accuracy in team tools for work tracking and reporting
* Ensures effective and efficient meetings such as stand-ups, sprint planning, release planning and retrospectives
* Promotes collective ownership of story completion and sprint goals
* Ensure team understands and commits to specific sprint goals and follows through accordingly
* Provide consistent and periodic project status to senior management
* Escalate impediments that cannot be resolved by the sprint team
* Manage project for the engineering team, partnering closely with external program and project managers
* Coordinate cross-functional meetings to create project plans, release plans and other artifacts as needed

Minimum Qualifications

* Highly motivated, self-driven and passionate about delivering great experiences
* Structured and efficient in planning and coordination of projects and sprints
* Ability to be the agile leader for the sprint and extended team, focusing on best-practices and principles
* Mentor sprint teams and external members on agile/scrum principles
* Strong written and oral communication skills
* Expertise with various agile and software development tools (e.g. JIRA)
* Demonstrable history of leading various agile/scrum projects for cross-functional and highly matrixed organizations
* Able to influence and coach senior leadership on continually growing the agile practice

Preferred Qualifications

* Familiarity and experience with Adobe AEM (CQ) and related technologies
* PMP certification
* Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Certified Scrum Professional(CSP)

The Ideal Candidate

* You are someone who gets excited about creating great experiences for customers
* You are excited about technology (web) and believes in doing the right thing for the customers
* You don't get flustered by ambiguity and helps to resolve and simplify and isn't afraid of reaching out to the right person to get answers

About Autodesk

With Autodesk software, you have the power to Make Anything. The future of making is here, bringing with it radical changes in the way things are designed, made, and used. It's disrupting every industry: architecture, engineering, and construction; manufacturing; and media and entertainment. With the right knowledge and tools, this disruption is your opportunity. Our software is used by everyone - from design professionals, engineers and architects to digital artists, students and hobbyists. We constantly explore new ways to integrate all dimensions of diversity across our employees, customers, partners, and communities. Our ultimate goal is to expand opportunities for anyone to imagine, design, and make a better world. '316970