Project Manager II IT

Our Client, a Financial company, is looking for a Project Manager II – IT for their Jersey City, NJ location.
 
Responsibilities:

• Project Delivery & Planning
• Build and manage project plans independently, including dependencies, buffers, sequencing, and critical path considerations.
• Lead day-to-day delivery execution across one or more Agile teams, ensuring work progresses predictably and transparently.
• Partner with Development Managers and team leads to adapt plans as scope, delivery context, or business priorities evolve.
• Support implementation roadmaps and maintain delivery accuracy across Jira and related tooling.
• Risk, Scope & Resource Management
• Proactively identify, assess, score, and mitigate delivery risks; facilitate project-level risk reviews and determine when escalation is needed.
• Own project-level scope and change management by maintaining change logs, communicating impacts, and facilitating scope trade-off decisions.
• Plan resource allocation at the project level, forecast capacity gaps, and coordinate shared resources across teams.
• Coordinate releases, dependencies, and change impacts across one or more workstreams.
• Backlog, Requirements & Delivery Metrics
• Maintain a well-prioritized, estimable backlog and facilitate effective refinement sessions to keep work sprint-ready.
• Lead requirements workshops and translate business needs into clear, testable user stories and delivery-ready specifications.
• Build project dashboards and reporting views tailored to stakeholder needs, surfacing insights rather than only status.
• Use metrics such as velocity, throughput, risk trends, and delivery health indicators to guide execution decisions.
• Stakeholder Leadership & Communication
• Manage a diverse stakeholder group independently and tailor communication to technical, product, and business audiences.
• Navigate conflicting priorities and facilitate alignment across teams and functions.
• Provide clear, timely updates on progress, risks, delivery health, and decisions.
• Facilitate cross-team discussions and drive action-oriented follow-through.
• Agile, Workshops & Continuous Improvement
• Apply Agile practices consistently and adapt ceremonies to team context and maturity.
• Facilitate retrospectives, planning workshops, discovery sessions, and other working forums that improve clarity and execution.
• Organize learning sessions, office hours, and improvement activities that strengthen delivery discipline and collaboration.
• Coach teams on iterative delivery, continuous improvement, and effective team practices.
• AI-Enabled Delivery & Product Alignment
• Use approved AI tools for risk summaries, retrospective outputs, stakeholder communication, and first-pass delivery planning.
• Critically assess AI-generated outputs and identify when results are incomplete, unreliable, or require refinement.
• Proactively adopt AI tools to improve personal and team productivity and share effective use cases with the team.
• Contribute to roadmap and discovery conversations by surfacing delivery insights, customer context, and business trade-offs.
• Participate in design reviews and discovery activities, advocating for user needs and product quality in delivery decisions.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5–7 years of experience in project management, Agile delivery, product delivery, or related software development roles.
• Proven ability to independently manage project plans, RAID processes, backlog health, and delivery reporting.
• Experience working directly with engineering, product, and cross-functional stakeholders in software product environments.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and prioritization skills.
• Hands-on experience with Jira and related delivery/reporting tools.
• Preferred
• Experience with release coordination, capacity planning, and backlog ownership.
• Familiarity with engineering metrics, delivery dashboards, and basic product metrics.
• Experience with AI-assisted project delivery workflows in an approved enterprise environment.
• Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or product-related certification is a plus.

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities