Remote Lead Iteration Manager Job in Washington, DC Whitespace

Who you are

• 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

Desirables

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

What the job involves

• 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