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Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master

Eliassen Group
New York, NY Contractor
POSTED ON 4/2/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/1/2025

**100% Remote Role**


Our client, a technology company servicing the Real Estate market, is looking to engage two Agile Project Manager / Scrum Masters.


Due to client requirement, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.


Rate: $40 - $50 / hr. w2


Responsibilities:

  • Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
  • Helps team to achieve a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
  • Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
  • Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally.
  • Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
  • Resolves team impediments and limits the external interference the team must deal with.
  • Ensure transparency and collaboration across the team and other teams working and works with other Scrum Masters across the organization to facilitate scrum of scrum events
  • Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role.
  • Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
  • Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective etc.
  • Facilitates cross team collaboration, and Scrum of Scrum level events
  • Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
  • Ensure product quality expectations are defined and known across the team.
  • Track and monitor progress daily and help the team achieve their commitments and when problems are identified work with team to develop corrective actions.
  • Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
  • Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
  • Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining (aka grooming) and managing the product backlog and road mapping
  • Collaborate with the team in scheduling work, including defect remediation and refactoring, guarding against the accumulation of technical debt.
  • Manage and report the status of scope, schedule, resourcing, and financials. Including tracking budget and product metrics


Experience Requirements:

  • Must have first level PM and Scrum Master certification PMI-PMP, (CSM ) (PSM), PMI-ACP
  • 5-7 years of experience within Scrum Master/PM roles
  • Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
  • Excellent skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, collaboration, increasing transparency, and root cause analysis.
  • Knowledge of multiple PPM and agile frameworks (i.e. Waterfall, Hybrid, Scrum, XP, Kanban, LeSS, etc..),
  • Adept at understanding requirements, refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection.
  • Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams.
  • Solid understanding of and demonstrated experience in using appropriate tools, such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Visio, ServiceNow and all MS Office Tools
  • Understanding of financial controls needed in project management and consulting work, experience with budget tracking.
  • In-depth understanding of how to scope and estimate work.
  • Understanding of execution metrics and how to leverage for teams’ continuous improvement and reporting.
  • Experience working with multiple teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc)
  • Proficient in Visio, MS Excel, PowerPoint and other Office applications to build process flows and presentations.


Education Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree and 5-7 years of product/project development experience on an Agile Team


Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.


W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.


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Salary : $40 - $50

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