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Lead Iteration Manager

Skills
Agile Project ManagementBusiness RequirementsNegotiationProduct RequirementsProduct ServiceProject Management SoftwareStory
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • A U.S. citizen
  • Based in the U.S.
  • A self-starter who thrives in a remote-first culture
  • A strong collaborator with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Thoughtful, adaptable, and able to succeed in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision
  • A Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or a related field
  • 8+ years of experience working as a business analyst or similar function
  • Experience working with clients to extract, sequence, and organize business requirements
  • Experience working with technical leads to blend and influence technical design and business requirements
  • Extensive knowledge of techniques to convert ideas to actionable items for a development team
  • Experience working in a client facing environment
  • Ability to challenge ideas and views of stakeholders, ensure various client perspectives are considered, and clearly define the behavior of the system
  • Strong negotiation skills and ability to guide stakeholders to simple solutions that meet client expectations
  • Knowledge of Agile practices and methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, etc.
  • Experience implementing frameworks for capturing complex requirements in the form of epics and decomposing them into user stories
  • Experience facilitating various Agile meetings
  • Experience with Atlassian (Jira and Confluence) or other Agile project management tools

Nice to have

  • Experience working on large complex projects
  • Experience as a Scrum Master

Day to day

  • You will be actively working with technical leads to flesh out designs and identifying and refining user stories
  • You will ensure a focus on delivering minimal viable products for our clients
  • Support clients and other members of the business in translating needs into product requirements
  • Ensure that product requirements are well defined, prioritized, and refined
  • Lead team ceremonies
  • Mine, define, and refine requirements and capture them in a product backlog
  • Radiate current project state including risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies
  • Collaborate across the team and have a clear understanding of the software development life cycle
  • Conduct product research and perform other ad hoc tasks as needed