Extramarks Education - Project Manager

About the Company : - Extramarks is a new age education technology company that focuses on Pre-school, K-12 and Test Prep segments and delivers 360-degree digital learning solutions to schools and students in all subjects. - Currently, Extramarks India caters to more than 9 million students in-school and 10 million after school students across 9000 schools and 65,000 classroom PAN India. - More than 3500 employees (300 academicians) across leadership, marketing, tech, and sales team at Extramarks are dedicated to designing the best learning solutions for the students and make education easy and accessible. - Besides India, Extramarks has a global presence in South Africa, Middle East & Indonesia. Roles & Responsibilities : - Accountable for the end-to-end planning and execution of one or more projects and/or Agile teams. - Lead and negotiate scope, schedule, budget, risks, deployments and communications for projects and initiatives. - Coach multiple teams through the software development life cycle using Agile, Scrum, and Lean practices and work cross-functionally throughout the company to ensure projects are developed and deployed with quality and timely delivery into our production systems. - Ask thoughtful questions to help our customers, product owners, and product managers to maximize ROI and meet company objectives. - Understand product strategy and benefits of key deliverables in area of responsibility. - Work with product owner to promote and contribute to the improvement of the product backlog. - Facilitate sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-up meetings, reviews/demos, retrospectives, and other scrum ceremonies. - Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution. - Coach team in estimation techniques. - Shield the team from outside distractions and interferences. - Track and remove impediments for the team. - Develop metrics and reports using Jira to help the team understand its health and progress and to set goals. - Lead and coach team in its Agile adoption. - Coach team members to understand Scrum and the Agile Principles. - Influence change that increases team performance at a sustainable pace. - Lead Agile release planning. Required Skills : - CSM Certified. - 6-8 years of working experience in Agile methodologies. - In-depth experience facilitating agile ceremonies and mentoring teams/individuals on agile values, design thinking, customer value, product management, etc. - Strong experience on driving Agile transformations from design to implementation. - Working knowledge and experience with several Agile methodologies like SCRUM, XP, Kanban, SAFe and fluid. - Working knowledge of best practices in user-centered design like user research, hypothesis-driven development, prototyping, usability testing. - Strong working knowledge of technical engineering best practices including test-driven development, continuous integration, DevOps. Experience : 6-8 years (ref:hirist.tech)

Location: noida, IN

Posted Date: 11/23/2024