Project Manager(Agile/Scrum)

Insight Global - Burbank, CA

Full-time

Burbank, CA

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Project Manager (Agile/Scrum) at The Walt Disney Studios will oversee various projects and initiatives within the Program Management & Enabling Technologies team. This role involves leading operational and growth initiatives, managing project data, and ensuring effective communication and reporting of project status to stakeholders. The position requires a strong background in technical project management, particularly in agile methodologies, and aims to enhance production technology and operational efficiency in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational and growth initiatives from end-to-end, including gathering requirements and defining scope, schedule and resourcing for the technology team.
• Lead agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint closing, and retrospectives.
• Manage the project data in JIRA and Smartsheet.
• Manage tasks and resources through waterfall, scrum, or kanban methodologies.
• Ensure clear reporting of project status from project management team including timelines, milestone tracking, budget status and issue identification to program management and stakeholders.
• Prioritize and escalate critical operational tasks, execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Work with program management to assess and define technology roadmaps with key deliverables and milestone dates.
• Maintain KPI dashboards related to program metrics via MS Power BI.
• Apply analytics and critical thinking to identify team inefficiencies and risk areas, and implement projects or processes to streamline and improve operations.
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.

Requirements

• 3 to 7 years of experience in Technical Project Management, utilizing waterfall and agile methodology.
• 4 plus years of experience managing and developing teams to meet expectations for productivity, quality, and goal accomplishment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in managing technical operations teams (i.e., infrastructure engineers, software developers).
• Ability to work under pressure while managing multiple tasks and organizing work effectively.
• Excellent meeting facilitation skills and effective team player.
• Experience with project management tools such as Smartsheet and Jira.
• Strong ability to develop and present business cases via PowerPoint or Keynote.
• Strong written and oral communications skills.
• Ability to create workflow drawings and process maps utilizing Visio.
• Must have strong agile/scrum skills, acting as the scrum master - assigning the Jira tickets, managing the quality, owning the scrum ceremonies directly.

Nice-to-haves

• Previous experience working in a Content Production environment.
• Previous experience working in product management or delivering products and applications.
• PMP certification a plus.
• Certified Scrummaster a plus.