Key Responsibilities
Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and backlog refinement sessions.
Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to ensure clear requirements, prioritization, and sprint goals.
Manage the end-to-end delivery of technical features, bug fixes, and enhancements across 30+ WordPress brand sites.
Coordinate with engineering leads, designers, QA, SEO, and DevOps to track dependencies and resolve blockers.
Maintain and groom the product backlog in Jira or similar tools, ensuring epics and stories are well-scoped and up-to-date.
Monitor team velocity and capacity to optimize sprint planning and manage stakeholder expectations.
Drive continuous improvement in Agile practices and team collaboration, adapting frameworks to project needs.
Track and report on project progress, timelines, risks, and release readiness to internal stakeholders.
Support QA and UAT efforts, helping coordinate testing, acceptance criteria, and release validation.
Champion documentation, process clarity, and delivery accountability across all phases of the SDLC.
Requirements
5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Technical PM, or Agile Delivery Manager, ideally in web or CMS-based environments.
Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies, sprint cadences, and backlog management.
Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, or other Agile lifecycle tools.
Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams and drive delivery in a fast-paced, iterative setting.
Comfortable working with engineering and design leads to scope technical stories, manage trade-offs, and resolve ambiguities.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clear project plans, status updates, and risk assessments.
Experience coordinating testing cycles, feature rollouts, and iterative releases.
Familiarity with version control (Git), CI/CD concepts, and web development terminology (HTML, CSS, WordPress, APIs, etc.).
Skills Required
- 5+ years as a Scrum Master, Technical PM, or Agile Delivery Manager
- Experience in web or CMS-based environments (ideally WordPress)
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies, sprint cadences, and backlog management
- Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence (or similar Agile lifecycle tools)
- Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams and drive delivery in iterative settings
- Comfort scoping technical stories and resolving trade-offs and ambiguities with engineering and design leads
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including project plans, status updates, and risk assessments
- Experience coordinating testing cycles, feature rollouts, and iterative releases (QA and UAT coordination)
- Familiarity with version control (Git), CI/CD concepts, and web development terminology (HTML, CSS, APIs)
What We Do
Photon.com has emerged as one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing Digital Agencies. We work with 40% of the Fortune 100 on their Digital initiatives and are known for our ability to integrate Strategy Consulting, Creative Design, and Technology at scale. Please visit www.photon.com to learn more about us, how we work, and our customer case studies. Digital Transformation Starts Here.
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