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About the Role
A Project Manager at MediaNews Group acts as a servant leader and coach for an agile team, responsible for the flow of work through product development. You will lead the team via agile practices, ensuring adherence to the agreed-upon process, removing impediments, and fostering high-performing team dynamics. In a larger project management context, you will balance competing needs of scope, schedule, and cost, while monitoring risks. You will keep stakeholders informed of project status and maintain high visibility throughout the organization. We seek a confident leader who thrives in dynamic environments, embraces change, and enjoys solving complex problems. You will run a scrum team and potentially serve as project manager on a larger program. The ideal candidate is deadline-oriented, assertive when necessary, and proactive in addressing issues. This is a hands-on role.
Responsibilities
- Apply agile and occasional waterfall methodologies and SDLC practices to initiatives from idea to launch and beyond, ensuring alignment with SDLC standards and company strategy.
- Lead all aspects of the project, including planning, execution, timely delivery, functionality, quality, issue tracking, and communication.
- Maintain accountability for project delivery to the PMO, business owner, and stakeholders.
- Create initial project planning documentation, including assumptions/constraints, measures of success, quality measures, risks, mitigation plans, issues, dependencies, schedules, and change control strategy.
- Report progress, risks, and issues to management and project stakeholders; track risks, risk mitigation, known issues, change requests, and change impact in writing, and work to resolve blockers to completion.
- Use tracking tools to provide status and progress updates.
- Contribute to quarterly planning, Scrum of Scrums, all other agile ceremonies, and the project management community of practice.
- Lead by facilitation using standard scrum and scaled agile methodologies.
- Enforce the priorities of the work to be performed, as determined with the product owner, business owner, and project stakeholders; obtain product manager and client sign-off on key project deliverables.
- Conduct post-project reviews, lessons-learned discussions, and retrospectives.
- Draft and create project archives and process improvement plans based on lessons learned and retrospectives; implement approved plans.
- Add project documentation to the repository for use in future projects.
Requirements
- Candidates must reside in CO, FL, IL, MA, MN, OH, OK, PA, or TX.
- A full pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process.
- Must be willing to submit and pass the necessary required checks.
Skills
- Project management platform familiarity (Jira, Trello, Asana, etc.)
- Web technology platform knowledge preferred
- Experience in digital media strongly preferred
- Agile project management training
- Previous project management experience
- PMP or CSM certification preferred
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- At least 2 years of experience in agile project management
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000 - $125,000
Benefits
- Medical, dental, life and disability insurance
- 401k
- Paid time off
- Select paid holidays
About the Company
- MediaNews Group is a leading local news provider and digital marketing partner with a 175+ year history.
- The company delivers impactful journalism and advertising that informs, inspires, and engages readers across diverse, local communities.
- With a portfolio of 77 daily and over 150 weekly publications nationwide, their products reach 47.2 million readers monthly.
- The Product & Technology team's mission is to create people-centric digital technology that empowers local news and partners by putting people, product, and performance first.
- The team builds product experiences across MediaNews Group's entire digital portfolio, including local news publications and the Adtaxi digital marketing agency.
- At MediaNews Group, you’ll join a team that values expertise, continuous learning, and autonomy, while embracing business agility through decentralized decision-making and scaled agile principles.
- 4x Built In Best Places to Work Winner - 2023-2026
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
- All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.