Agile Project Manager

Gallup delivers analytics and advice to help leaders and organizations solve their most pressing problems. Combining more than 80 years of experience with its global reach, Gallup knows more about the attitudes and behaviors of employees, customers, students and citizens than any other organization in the world.

* Do you have a passion for making technical projects run smoothly and precisely? * Do you enjoy the responsibility of communicating the complex priorities of a project to diverse teams and stakeholders? * Can you motivate teams to follow through on your plans; are you diplomatic and good at gaining consensus? * Are you hyper-aware of the intricacies and details of a technical project — can you prioritize needs quickly and correctly to push projects through to a seamless completion? If so, we want you to lead our new, groundbreaking technical projects. Gallup is looking for an Agile Project Manager who is passionate about creating top-tiered digital product experiences. In this role, you will develop system processes that enable rapid growth of a new consumer suite of Web and mobile applications. As a technical project manager, you will be responsible for strategizing and communicating technical concepts and platform functions with a priority of pleasing our customers through early and continuous delivery of working software. Ideal candidates are leaders in conceptualizing and sourcing the best solutions to highly complex technical issues.

* Manage overall communication with stakeholders on capacity tracking, delivery strategy reporting (such as burndown reports), ensuring alignment between interdependent projects and key business dates * Help the technical team stay productive by taking project issues off of their hands * Bring together project requirements from a diverse group of clients and stakeholder teams * Review technical specifications to ensure they meet functional requirements * Write and prioritize user stories and functional specifications for new sprints * Develop workflows for upcoming sprints * Plan the development roadmap and help maintain the project backlog * Work alongside a product manager and development leads to set up developer team sprints and manage developer/resource allocation across each sprint * Manage bug reporting and help prioritize bug fixes that need to interrupt a given sprint * Maintain awareness of emerging technologies and the potential application consumer-grade social Web platforms and mobile apps

* Bachelor's degree in CS, MIS, finance or a related degree * First level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I) is required; second level Scrum Master certification is preferred * Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least one year for a Web/mobile development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices and theory is required * Knowledge and/or experience with numerous, well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach * High-level understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design * Excellent organizational skills to ensure that the proper systems and processes are developed and implemented perfectly and on time to meet client requirements * Working knowledge of traditional and Agile development methodologies and how/when to apply them * Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc. is preferred * Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing and Agile Games is preferred * Experience as a team lead is preferred