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The Steely Group
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Project Manager
Remote, CA US
Posted: 01/19/2026
2026-01-19
2026-02-24
Employment Type:
Contract
Job Category: Operations and Development
Job Number: 4825
Job Description
Our client is looking to add a Project Manager to their team on a contract basis. Length of Contract: 12 months.
Responsibilities:
Agile Delivery & Project Leadership:
Requirements / Qualifications:
Responsibilities:
Agile Delivery & Project Leadership:
- Lead Agile ceremonies (planning, reviews, retrospectives, stand-ups) and ensure teams operate with strong discipline, transparency, and continuous improvement.
- Build and maintain detailed project plans, sprint schedules, work breakdown structures, and task assignments.
- Track progress against key milestones, escalating timeline, resource, or quality concerns to the Portfolio Manager as needed.
- Implement and refine project management processes and frameworks that improve consistency, predictability, and speed of delivery.
- Develop and execute change management plans to drive engagement, adoption, and readiness across impacted teams.
- Assess stakeholder needs, manage communication plans, and anticipate resistance points before they escalate.
- Support leaders in navigating organizational impacts and aligning the workforce to new digital capabilities.
- Leverage digital tools to automate reporting, enhance communication, streamline documentation, and accelerate decision-making.
- Identify opportunities where digital can improve delivery efficiency, team productivity, or problem-solving velocity.
- Guide teams on responsible and effective digital adoption within project workflows.
- Serve as the connective tissue across technical, business, and leadership teams—ensuring consistent, clear communication.
- Manage recurring meeting cadences, agendas, facilitation, notes, and follow-up actions.
- Provide timely updates, dashboards, and insights to the Portfolio Manager, Product Owner(s), and leadership.
- Collaborate with senior business partners to prioritize initiatives that propel enterprise-level digital and transformation goals.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities early—and recommend solutions that keep programs advancing.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and experimentation across the delivery ecosystem.
- Develop and execute continuous improvement processes for Agile teams.
- Communicate program status, risks, and insights to leadership.
- Coordinate and manage meeting series, including facilitation and minutes.
- Build and maintain project plans, timelines, backlog items, and cross-team tasks.
- Use digital tools to streamline reporting, documentation, communication, and data synthesis.
- Partner with Product Owners on prioritization, resource planning, and stakeholder engagement.
Requirements / Qualifications:
- Doctorate degree or Master’s degree and 2 years of experience or Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of experience or Associate’s degree and 8 years of experience or High school diploma / GED and 10 years of experience
- Experience with Organizational Change Management (OCM)
- Experience with AI and the use of automation
- Proven Agile Delivery & Project Leadership experience