AI Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master

**Primary responsibilities** - Actively identify, manage, and resolve external dependencies and impediments across teams and stakeholders to ensure the squad remains focused and unblocked in its delivery - Leverage tools such as JIRA and Roadmunk to provide clear, transparent visibility into delivery status, risks, issues, and dependencies, enabling effective prioritization and decision‑making by Product Owners - Ensure deliverables, expected outcomes, roles, and responsibilities are clearly defined and communicated, while remaining adaptable as priorities and team structures evolve - Serve as a Scrum Master where appropriate, facilitating agile ceremonies and practices in a pragmatic way that supports delivery rather than imposing rigid process - Partner closely with Product Owners and Tech Leads to incrementally improve planning discipline, backlog clarity, and delivery predictability over time - Use metrics and tooling to surface trends and risks, focusing on actionable insights that help the team improve flow and execution - Maintain lightweight but effective project documentation and stakeholder reporting aligned to the pace and maturity of the team - Foster a collaborative, transparent team culture that encourages continuous improvement, learning, and shared ownership of outcomes - Support the team’s gradual evolution toward mature, effective agile delivery, introducing structure and best practices incrementally as the team’s context and readiness evolve **Required Skills** - Demonstrated experience driving delivery in complex, fast‑changing environments - Strong grounding in Scrum and agile principles, with the judgment to apply them flexibly - Proven ability to manage dependencies, remove blockers, and improve delivery flow - Ability to provide clear, concise communication of status, risks, and issues to Product Owners - Deep expertise in JIRA and delivery tracking tools - Ability to influence behavior and outcomes without formal authority - Proven experience operating across siloed organizations, building alignment and cohesion to enable effective end‑to‑end delivery. - Familiarity with GenAI, data, and compute infrastructure concepts - Hands‑on experience acting as a Scrum Master or agile delivery lead **Desired Skills** - Experience supporting teams as they evolve toward agile maturity, rather than operating only in fully mature agile environments - Hands-on GenAI development experience - Financial services or large‑scale transformation experience **Qualifications** - 4-6 years working as a technical project manager Rate range -$60-$65