Technical Project Manager
$88,000–$155,500 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Own the intake process for all incoming requests from practice group leaders and business stakeholders, running structured discovery sessions to define scope, requirements, success criteria, and constraints before work enters the engineering backlog. Translate business needs into well-formed user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria in Azure DevOps, while maintaining and grooming the EA project backlog in collaboration with engineers and the Director. Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives across active workstreams, tracking delivery progress and surfacing blockers early to coordinate resolution across internal teams and vendors. Own stakeholder communication for projects in flight, including status updates, risk escalation, and milestone reporting, and produce documentation including charters, decision logs, and dependency maps. Manage vendor engagement and partner activities, identify delivery risk throughout the project lifecycle, and ensure all project work is tracked in Azure DevOps. Support change management activities including communications, training coordination, and cutover planning, partnering with QA to ensure test coverage is planned and executed before production deployment. Provide the Director with a clear, current view of portfolio status, risk, and capacity.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience managing technical projects in an Agile or hybrid Agile environment, including ownership of sprint ceremonies and backlog management
- Proficiency with Azure DevOps for project tracking, backlog management, and sprint planning
- Strong ability to run structured discovery and translate business requirements into actionable engineering work items
- Experience managing stakeholder relationships across business and technical audiences, including executive-level communication
- Comfortable working in a technical environment with enough domain fluency to scope work, challenge estimates, and identify risk without being a developer
- Proven ability to coordinate parallel workstreams across a small, high-output team without creating overhead
- Experience with delivery risk identification, escalation, and mitigation
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to produce clear status updates, decision logs, and project documentation
- Familiarity with Microsoft 365 including Teams and SharePoint as collaboration surfaces
Desired Qualifications
- Law firm experience preferred
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