Western Psychological Services
Sr. Project Manager / ScrumMaster (Agile/Waterfall)
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $130K - $155K
💻 Project Management
🗓️ September 11th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Lead cross-functional teams in Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall digital projects.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, UX/UI Designers, Developers, and QA Engineers for high-impact digital solutions.
- Manage project goals, schedules, budgets, and risks to ensure timely, quality delivery.
- Use tools including Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, and Miro for project tracking and collaboration.
- Require PMP and/or Agile certifications with 10+ years of project management experience.
- Experience in scaled Agile frameworks and multi-team project dependencies.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
- Salary range: $130,000 to $155,000 annually.
- Approximately 5% travel expected; bilingual Spanish a plus.
Sr. Project Manager / ScrumMaster (Agile/Waterfall) Full Description
Job Description
- Lead cross-functional teams in the end-to-end management of digital projects using Agile frameworks (Scrum and Kanban) and, where appropriate, traditional Waterfall approaches.
- Champion Agile best practices to foster a culture of iterative delivery, customer-centricity, and continuous improvement across teams.
- Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, UX/UI Designers, Developers, and QA Engineers to deliver high-impact digital solutions.
- Establish project goals, deliverables, schedules, budgets, and resource plans that align with strategic business objectives.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring team alignment and project momentum.
- Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and issues, identifying mitigation strategies to minimize project disruption.
- Monitor project metrics, generate actionable insights, and provide regular status updates to stakeholders at all organizational levels.
- Mentor and coach team members on Agile methodologies, tools, and mindset shifts needed for high-performing digital teams.
- Adapt delivery approaches based on project complexity, team composition, and organizational maturity, ensuring flexibility between Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall practices.
- Ensure user-centric project outcomes, leveraging Agile digital techniques such as Design Thinking, MVP (Minimum Viable Product) delivery, and customer feedback loops.
Key Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Business, Engineering, or a related field; PMP and/or Agile certifications (e.g., CSM, PMP) strongly preferred. 10+ years of project management experience with a track record of delivering digital projects in Agile and Waterfall environments.
- Deep Agile expertise, with hands-on experience in leading Scrum teams, facilitating backlog refinement, sprint planning, and retrospectives to ensure smooth delivery of digital initiatives and alignment with business goals.
- Proficient in Agile/Waterfall tools such as Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, and Miro.
- Comprehensive understanding of digital delivery lifecycles, encompassing mobile app development, responsive web design, e-commerce platforms, and SaaS solutions, enabling effective planning and execution of complex digital initiatives.
- Experience with Scaled Agile Frameworks and managing cross-team dependencies in a multi-squad setup.
- Excellent communication skills; able to translate complex technical concepts into business-friendly language.
- Strong skills in stakeholder management, team leadership, negotiation, and conflict resolution.
- Proficient in Agile metrics and KPIs, including Velocity, Burndown Charts, Cumulative Flow Diagrams, and team health assessments, to monitor project progress, identify risks, and drive informed decision-making in digital delivery initiatives.
- Bilingual (Spanish) a plus.
Key Competencies
- Driver
- Agile Mindset and Adaptability
- Strong Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
- Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
- Customer-Centric Thinking
- Strategic Planning and Execution
- Risk Management and Mitigation
- Continuous Learning and Innovation
- The employee may regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision and Distance vision.
- The auditory/hearing abilities required by the job include the ability to hear others using a phone or online conferencing system.
- While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
- The employee is regularly required to walk and sit for prolonged periods.
- This individual must be a responsible person, and regular attendance is required.
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