AGILE PROJECT MANAGER JOB DESCRIPTION

Agile Project Manager is a straightforward title that covers a genuinely complex job. In software delivery teams, this person holds the connective tissue between product owners setting priorities and engineering teams executing them, owning the sprint schedule, the risk log, and the release calendar simultaneously. When sprint velocity drifts, or cross-team dependencies go untracked, release dates slip and product roadmaps stall. Scrum KPI reporting and PMI-ACP-level planning discipline are the instruments this role uses to keep delivery on course.

As the Agile Project Manager, you own sprint planning, backlog health, and release coordination across concurrent software development initiatives, translating product priorities into executable delivery schedules. You work daily alongside software engineers, product managers, and QA personnel, with your output measured against on-time delivery rates and the accuracy of capacity forecasts for upcoming sprint cycles.

Career Impact: Hands-on ownership of sprint governance and Scrum KPI reporting builds the delivery track record that separates mid-level practitioners from candidates credible for Senior PM and Program Manager roles.

Business Impact: When release plans slip or capacity is misjudged, product roadmaps stall, and engineering teams lose sprint rhythm, your forecasting and risk triage prevent that directly.

Growth Opportunity: Managing cross-functional delivery across product, design, development, and QA in parallel sharpens the scope and stakeholder fluency required for Program Manager or Delivery Lead advancement.

• Manage product backlogs in collaboration with software engineers and product managers to maintain sprint readiness.
• Coordinate release plans across internal teams, surfacing blockers and resolving cross-team dependencies before they affect timelines.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies, including stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives for one or more delivery teams.
• Monitor and communicate sprint status, capacity utilization, and delivery risks to stakeholders across product and engineering.
• Maintain capacity forecasts for the product development team to predict resourcing needs across upcoming sprint objectives.
• Measure agile performance metrics and champion process improvements that increase team velocity and delivery predictability.
• Define project scope, milestones, and risk registers in collaboration with product managers and business stakeholders.
• Manage project documentation and sprint records to ensure delivery history is traceable and audit-ready.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
• 3 or more years of agile software project management experience, with demonstrated delivery of multi-team sprint cycles.
• Active Scrum Master certification or PMI-ACP, reflecting applied knowledge of agile frameworks beyond methodology familiarity.
• Proven ability to build and maintain capacity forecasts and communicate resourcing needs to engineering and product leadership.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience producing stakeholder-facing status updates and risk summaries.
• Demonstrated attention to detail when executing sprint plans under incomplete information or shifting priorities.
• Experience managing cross-functional delivery involving product management, design, development, and QA disciplines.

• PMP certification, in addition to an agile credential, reflects a hybrid delivery experience across waterfall and sprint-based projects.
• Experience as Scrum Master for multi-function teams of 10 or more members spanning design, development, and QA.
• Familiarity with ecommerce or digital platform delivery environments, where release timing directly affects revenue and user experience.
• Demonstrated track record of bootstrapping new agile processes with minimal guidance in newly formed or scaling teams.

• Sprint velocity trend, tracking whether team output per sprint is stable or improving over time.
• Release plan accuracy rate, measuring the percentage of releases delivered within the originally committed window.
• Capacity forecast variance, reflecting how closely predicted resourcing needs match actual sprint utilization.
• Cross-team dependency resolution rate, tracking blockers resolved before they delay a sprint milestone.
• Backlog health ratio, measuring the share of backlog items groomed and estimated at least one sprint ahead.
• Typical tools: Agile project tracking (commonly Jira or Azure DevOps); documentation and wiki (commonly Confluence); spreadsheet-based capacity planning (commonly Google Sheets or Excel).

• Base Salary Range: $85,000 to $120,000 annually, depending on seniority and location
• Bonus: 5% to 10% annual performance bonus, common in mid-size software and product companies
• Equity: RSUs or stock options offered at growth-stage and public technology employers
• Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer contribution varies by company size
• PTO: 15 to 20 days annually, plus public holidays; unlimited PTO policies are increasingly common
• Common Perks: Remote or hybrid flexibility, home office stipend, and conference or certification reimbursement

Figures are estimates based on general US market benchmarks and may be outdated. Adjust based on location, company size, and seniority level.

Successful completion of a background check is a condition of employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Reasonable accommodations are available to individuals with disabilities throughout the hiring process and in the performance of job duties upon request. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.

The Agile Project Manager delivers structured project execution across multiple workstreams, managing interdependencies, budgets, and governance forums while facilitating agile ceremonies in collaboration with technology scrum masters. Working closely with business leads, the PMO, and the Chief Product Owner, this role shapes a controlled delivery environment that ensures scope, cost, and compliance standards are upheld across the full project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Manages delivery and provides direction within a project, working closely with business leads and stakeholders on a daily basis.
• Ensures group standards are met, including processes related to NWOW, SCM, CRA, and CGC.
• Manages conflicts in stakeholder expectations, employee experience, and process solution design across multiple workstreams.
• Understands risks, business imperatives, and business context when facilitating decision-making impacted by process re-design, creates solution options, and makes recommendations.
• Presents clear options and recommendations, facilitates decision-making, and enables clear stakeholder understanding of risks, outcomes, and trade-offs.
• Participates in business case development and roadmap definition for projects.
• Manages interdependencies between in-flight projects and ensures all stages of the project lifecycle are managed accordingly.
• Facilitates agile ceremonies in collaboration with technology delivery scrum masters.
• Supports continuous improvement and operational efficiency of processes to optimise the operating model and employee experience.
• Works with the business architect and other planners to assess current capabilities and identify high-level customer requirements.
• Ensures user stories, use cases, and the Requirements Traceability Matrix are defined, set up, and maintained as per requirements.
• Works with the design team, architects, and other programme team members to define metrics and performance goals for the application.
• Manages project expenditure against the budget as agreed in the project business case and project definition document or approval request.
• Supports Product Owners in grooming and prioritising the product backlog.
• Assists the PMO with Post Implementation Reviews at project closure.
• Ensures scope, approach, solution design, timelines, costs, benefits, and all other key aspects of the project are documented.
• Creates financial baselines and tracks cost actuals in a detailed budget document for submission to the PMO and Finance monthly.
• Ensures all project documents are audit-ready at all times and maintains the project document repository.
• Compiles lessons learned to contribute to process improvement.
• Promotes a culture of openness, trust, and risk awareness, where ethical, legal, regulatory, and policy-compliant conduct is the norm.
• Ensures the project team is adequately resourced and staffed by a sufficient number of competent staff, with clear responsibilities, reporting lines, delegated authorities, and objectives.
• Manages and tracks risks, issues, and impediments throughout the project lifecycle, escalating blockers to the PMO, Chief Product Owner, and relevant governance forums as required.
• Prepares materials for governance meetings, including board-quality presentations, and ensures key person risks are mitigated.
• Manages project governance through the delivery of work and sprint plans, agile ceremonies, and relevant governance forums.
• Works with the CPO and PMO to establish relevant governance forums with detailed terms of reference, action logs, and minuted outcomes.
• Provides inputs and runs relevant governance forums together with the CPO, Programme Manager, and PMO.
• Displays exemplary conduct and upholds the group's values and code of conduct.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification.
• Project management accreditation, including PMP, ITIL, PRINCE2, or Agile certification.
• 5 years of experience in project management, preferably within a large international, dynamic organisation.
• Experience managing both agile and waterfall projects.
• Experience in organisational change management is an advantage.
• Experience working within financial services is preferable.
• Strong knowledge of project management and agile principles and practices, including Scrum.
• Strong knowledge of budget management, risk management, and vendor and supplier management.
• Advanced proficiency in the MS Office Suite, including SharePoint and MS Project.
• Advanced proficiency in planning tools, including Clarity, PlanView, Jira, Confluence, and Trello.
• Strong skills in effective communication, problem-solving, relationship management, and influencing through expertise.
• Demonstrated ability to manage change and drive operational efficiency.

Embedded within a product development team focused on new product and shared profile services, the Agile Project Manager manages projects with top-down oversight from initial development through implementation, maintaining adherence to scope, budget, and timeline. Working closely with Product Owners, development teams, and business partners, this role leads the identification and prioritisation of quality management approaches while escalating impediments and risks across product development initiatives.

Core Functions

• Manages projects with top-down oversight throughout the entire execution to ensure adherence to the standards of scope, budget, and timeline.
• Coordinates managers and technical personnel during all project phases, from initial development through implementation.
• Communicates proactively with all involved personnel to provide encouragement, identify problems, create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements.
• Ensures all required projects are completed and reviewed by interested parties.
• Reviews proposed modifications on project plans, including meeting with interested parties to approve and implement beneficial changes.
• Defines the scope of the project, deliverables, roles, and responsibilities in collaboration with stakeholders and business partners.
• Manages and appropriately escalates delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes associated with product development initiatives.
• Drives towards big-picture goals and milestones while maintaining strong attention to detail.
• Works with Product Owners and the development team to identify and prioritise quality management approaches, techniques, and principles.

Qualifications & Experience

• 2–5 years of experience in financial services, digital platforms, or software development.
• Strong understanding of agile methodology and the software development lifecycle.
• Full understanding of software development lifecycle best practices.
• Strong knowledge of web application programming, content management systems, APIs, databases, and system design.
• Intermediate to expert level proficiency in JIRA, including the ability to build dashboards, pull data, and create informative dashboards using Jira Query Language (JQL).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to create and communicate visual representations of progress, statuses, and issues.
• Strong numerical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships across many fronts and relate with personnel from different units.
• Ability to work independently with little or no supervision as well as collaboratively within a team.
• Self-motivated with excellent time management, organisational skills, and a strong sense of personal responsibility and accountability for delivering high-quality work.

Reporting to client engagement leadership, the Agile Project Manager shapes agile mindset adoption and Scrum framework application within client organisations, coaching teams through impediment removal and decision-making facilitation. Partnering with Scrum teams and external stakeholders, this role advances client agile maturity over time, enabling collaborative, self-improving delivery cultures across international engagements.

Primary Duties

• Promotes agile mindset, values, and best practices within client organisations.
• Ensures the Scrum framework is well understood and applied within client teams.
• Coaches client teams in the application of relevant agile best practices.
• Supports Scrum teams in daily work by facilitating discussions, removing impediments, and driving decision-making.
• Promotes an open and effective collaboration culture and enables Scrum teams to follow an improvement mindset and evolve their agile maturity over time.
• Creates a safe and productive space for Scrum teams by acting as the single point of contact between them and external teams and stakeholders.

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, Computer Science, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Scrum Master or related certification is considered a plus.
• Demonstrated experience with agile methodologies, including applying the Scrum framework and agile best practices.
• International experience, which may include volunteering, international engagements and projects, employment, or study abroad.
• Ability to facilitate Scrum meetings and enable quick decision-making.
• Ability to coach teams in understanding and applying the Scrum framework and relevant agile best practices.
• Demonstrated experience using Jira or similar tools, as well as Microsoft tools, including MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Technical competence and practical experience in the Adaptive Portfolio Office and Agile Transformation.
• Comfortable with international travel, which may be required for up to 30% of the time.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills.
• Self-starting and proactive attitude.

Sitting at the intersection of product development and cross-functional coordination, the Agile Project Manager builds and maintains stakeholder relationships while managing backlogs in Jira, coordinating release plans, and facilitating sprint ceremonies across internal teams. Operating across product management, engineering, and business units, this role delivers capacity forecasting and agile performance measurement that keeps software development objectives on track.

Duties

• Collaborates with software engineers and product managers to manage backlogs in Jira.
• Manages documentation of relevant projects in Atlassian tools.
• Monitors and communicates timelines, status, and blockers between product development and other internal teams as needed.
• Communicates and coordinates release plans with internal teams.
• Assists in determining project scope, objectives, timelines, milestones, and risks.
• Maintains an understanding of capacity requirements for the product development team to predict resourcing needs for upcoming objectives.
• Facilitates conversations for upcoming projects that may impact capacity.
• Communicates between teams when issues or risks arise that may impact timelines.
• Facilitates agile meetings, including stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospective meetings.
• Manages sprint schedule and work plans, measures agile performance, and champions changes to improve the agile process.
• Builds and maintains stakeholder relationships and meets with internal teams to communicate projects as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Scrum Certification.
• PMP or PMI-ACP Certification.
• 3 years of minimum agile software project management experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact with stakeholders.
• Comfortable facilitating agile meetings and processes.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to execute fully, even when not all details are available.

A key member of the GoPro.com ecommerce team based in Bucharest, the Agile Project Manager leads sprint planning, governance, and cross-functional delivery across multiple concurrent ecommerce and web projects spanning international locations. Collaborating across product management, design, development, QA, and IT, this role builds transparent stakeholder communication systems and owns risk resolution to maintain a high-quality, sustainable delivery pace.

Functions

• Functions as Scrum Master for ecommerce teams on multiple projects, maintaining knowledge of all team members' work responsibilities and ensuring the team is on track.
• Defines and manages best practices for agile project management, including an effective system of project governance.
• Conducts training sessions for team members on agile methods and processes.
• Coordinates planning for ecommerce and web projects across product management, design, development, QA, and IT to create project plans and schedules with regular and timely delivery of value.
• Measures and reports Scrum KPIs for optimising team efficiencies and ensuring a sustainable pace with high levels of quality.
• Ensures handoffs between teams are completed with clear responsibilities, ownership, and delivery expectations.
• Manages risk by proactively driving team members to identify and unblock issues and track and resolve cross-team dependencies.
• Acts as the development safety net for cross-functional teams, identifying and owning new problems and roadblocks as they arise and triaging each issue until the proper owner is identified.
• Drives effective and efficient communication through continuous, informed, and transparent updates both internally and organisation-wide to ensure stakeholders are aware of ongoing projects and statuses.

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 5+ years of experience in IT, ecommerce, website, or software development fields, with at least 4 years of experience leading the planning, execution, and delivery of complex, cross-functional, technical, deadline-driven projects.
• Experience as Scrum Master overseeing multi-function teams of 10–15 members, including product owners, designers, developers, QA, and other technical personnel.
• Solid understanding of software development and processes, with strong knowledge of both agile and project management principles and practices.
• Expertise in partnering with users, first and second-party technical teams, and senior and executive stakeholders to collect requirements, evaluate alternatives, and develop processes and tools.
• Experience using resource and project management tools, including Jira, Confluence, Google Sheets, Excel, and Smartsheet.
• Excellent English verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical individuals.
• Demonstrated track record of being hands-on and detail-oriented, with the ability to bootstrap new initiatives with minimal guidance and follow through on projects.
• Demonstrated track record of building relationships, communicating business strategy, and operating in the context of the big picture.