Extramarks Education - Project Manager (6-8 yrs)

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