Agile Project Manager

1 month ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States Mastery Logistics Systems Full time

About the Role:
Mastery is looking for an Agile Project Manager for our External API domain with project management experience in an Agile environment. In addition to providing daily support to the teams in all ceremonies, this role will manage the reporting of team projects, escalate issues and risks, and effectively communicates project health to project stakeholders throughout the organization.
This position requires a strong understanding of Agile theory and Scrum framework and will balance multiple teams and projects simultaneously. This position will also require you to be an expert at driving teams to completion. Your passion, technical and business depth, and excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills will inspire our teams and rapidly establish trust amongst a diverse set of stakeholders.
Responsibilities:

  • Facilitate and lead scrum ceremonies
  • Manage risk, dependencies, deployments, and any other cross-team communication
  • Assist in flagging, communicating, and removing impediments and other interruptions to team productivity
  • Create meaningful team or project level Jira dashboards that provide real-time transparency into the status of sprints and projects
  • Participates in cross-team scrum of scrums on behalf of team
  • Effectively lead a team in all phases of team maturity, from Forming to Performing
  • Leverage agile methodologies to support engineering teams' continued development and growth; actively identify appropriate scenarios for implementing different frameworks.
  • Train teams in agile practices


Requirements:

  • 3+ years of experience as an Agile Project Manager in a software environment
  • Strong verbal and writing skills to ability effectively communicate to different various audiences and technical aptitudes
  • Experience working with complex technical concepts and projects
  • Experience managing stakeholder expectations, escalating risks, and communicating changes to timelines


Preferred:

  • Experience in logistics industry a plus
  • Jira experience a plus
  • Experience working with APIs a plus
  • Agile certification a plus


About Mastery
Mastery Logistics Systems is building the world's first lovable Transportation Management System, or TMS.
Our customers - large transportation companies and shippers who need those companies - have struggled with systems that are outdated or inadequate. As shippers or transportation service providers, our customers have in the past been forced to use multiple systems to manage dedicated fleet operations, outsourced or insourced trans management, one way trucking, truckload brokerage, LTL, and Intermodal, or to sub-optimize one or more of those functions by attempting to fit it into a TMS that is adequate at another function.
Mastermind TMS allows our customers to bring all of these functions into a single platform, providing flexibility, visibility, control, and efficiency. Today's unprecedented global supply chain upheavals underscore how important the transportation industry is. We are building a system to allow this industry to work faster, smarter and more efficiently.
The challenges in this industry are big and exciting We are tackling everything from fast and efficient data input to ingesting large amounts of data and applying AI to looking at blockchain to securely digitize paperwork. If you are passionate about humanizing an industry, automating in innovative ways, building for quality and scale, helping make people's lives easier and touching every part of our economy then this is the place for you.
Mastery Logistics Systems is committed to continuing to build an incredible company. We are a masterful mosaic of incredible people. We are specialists and experienced in our respective fields. We are dedicated to continuous improvement both professionally and personally. We are a collective group of really good people. We have different interests, backgrounds & talents and we work together to create really cool stuff We believe in diversity of thought and are mindful and inclusive. We have deep respect for each other and work diligently at adding the right people to our teams.
We have flexible schedules but share in the mission that we are building and need to get it done. We offer an excellent suite of benefits.
Our team has the domain knowledge and connections to make an impact, and we're looking for experienced and thoughtful people to who thrive on creating and building great products. We want people who have a true passion for servicing and taking care of our customers. We need people who are flexible problem solvers, thrive on collaboration and consistently know how to communicate their solutions well. We are small and nimble - which is evident in how quickly we could pivot to our new reality. Each member of the team can make a tremendous impact both technically and culturally. While a start-up, we are well-funded, have an initial paying customer with which to test and launch, and are founded by top experts and veterans in the logistics industry.
Join us - you'll love it - let's build a masterpiece
Benefits
Mastery takes great pride in providing our employees a robust and highly competitive benefit package. Our benefits include Medical, Dental and Vision insurance, company paid Life insurance for 1x salary, Legal, AD&D, Additional Life and other employee assistance benefits. We have a 401k savings plan with a 4% match. We provide opportunities for professional growth and development. We have a manage your life and schedule Paid Time Off program. We are fully devoted to finding creative perks and benefits since we cannot currently enjoy our cool office culture. Our philanthropic partner is St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
We are an equal opportunity employer and actively seek a diverse community of professionals.

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