Full-Time Project Manager
Job Description
HOMER has a newly created opportunity for an exceptional Project Manager to join our energetic, growing team. This role can be based in either our NYC office (will be remote until office reopens) or Toronto, Canada. You will have an immediate and visible impact on product initiatives that touch the lives of children, parents and teachers across the globe. Reporting into the Senior Director, PMO, you’ll help manage projects from initiation to release, working across departments to maintain scope and prioritize.
HOMER, a BEGiN brand, is the proven early learning program that provides the best educational start possible. We offer personalized, fun, and proven learning products for kids ages 2-8 to help build confidence, mastery, and a love of learning. We are deeply committed to our members and to their children, and we are building a creative and strategic team to develop a portfolio of early learning products that support learning everywhere.
You will:
- Work closely with Product Managers and Technical Leads using Agile Methodologies to continuously evaluate scope, schedule, resources for smooth execution.
- Assist in developing and managing scope on an iterative scrum team.
- Monitor execution efforts to ensure alignment of prioritized work and roadmap.
- Manage project and team schedules with a focus on optimizing productivity.
- Continuously evaluate and communicate realistic and accurate project statuses.
- Monitor and assess velocities and communicate abnormalities and inconsistencies.
- Keep team members engaged in following company process protocols.
- Ensure JIRA and Confluence is the source of truth.
- Work in lockstep within the PMO to ensure program dependencies.
- Maintain PMO artifacts regularly.
- Identify and track risk with a mitigation plan.
- Continuously assess processes to adapt to changing needs, teams, and environments.
Must Haves:
- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience as a Project Manager working on technical projects
- Minimum of 3 years of experience working with Scrum Teams
- Action-oriented and proactive
- High attention to detail
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to multitask and work on several projects at once
- Experience working with JIRA
- Experience working in both Waterfall and Agile environments
- Experience working on technical product development from ideation to release
- Certified PMP
Nice-to-Haves:
- Certified CSM
- Experience configuring systems like JIRA, Airtable
We like people who:
- Love solving problems
- Are open to suggestions, collaborative, and thrive in team environments
- Consistently open to learning
- Are scrappy, entrepreneurial with the ability to turnaround high-quality projects quickly
What you’ll get:
- HOMER offers competitive compensation including equity and full benefits
- Smart, passionate, and engaged co-workers
- Excellent top-tier Medical/Dental/Vision benefits
- The chance to have a big impact, quickly
- The rare opportunity to make a dent in the universe. We’re bringing a love of reading and learning to children globally
HOMER is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to apply. HOMER does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender, national origin, citizenship, age, mental or physical disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by law.
How to Apply
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