About Us
Pantheon powers the world's professional websites. Our multi-tenant, container-based cloud platform enables businesses to run mission-critical Drupal & WordPress websites. Developers, Marketers and IT can instantly scale in response to unplanned traffic spikes, without upgrading VMs or clusters. Large enterprises use Pantheon, including Intel, Cisco, Arizona State University, and the United Nations. We value teamwork, humor, and hard work, balanced with solid social time together. We're enthusiastic participants in several open-source communities, and have real relationships with many of our most active customers and that's where you come in.
The Role
Pantheon is currently looking for a motivated, proactive and energetic individual to join our Engineering team. Part Project Manager, part Scrum Master, and part Agile coach, this role will be deeply involved in the day-to-day progress of our product initiatives, as well as understanding how we want our process to evolve and helping us achieve constant incremental improvements. This role requires the discipline and communication to coordinate and facilitate feedback loops, between Product and Engineering, between our local and remote team members, and between multiple departments.
Cool Stuff You'll Do
The primary responsibility is to ensure execution across the engineering teams by proactively curating a healthy process, identifying resourcing and scheduling risks, and helping the team manage planned and unplanned work. In this role you will:
- Act as Scrum Master for two of Pantheon’s four engineering sub-teams, ensuring teams are leveraging best-practices and developing functional practices that are compatible with the broader group
- Partner with engineering team members and product managers to ensure the planning and resourcing is on track
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering Management to maximize product initiatives and effect process evolutions
- Follow-through on engineering tasks that require external, cross-functional or interdepartmental hand-offs like feature releases and product launches
- Evangelize and coach agile practices across the product engineering teams and identifying strategic incremental improvements
Some specifics include:
- Mastery of JIRA practices including but not limited to Creating new workflows, updating sprint boards, basic administration i.e. adding/deleting users and adding projects.
- Determining which part of the Scrum cycle currently contains the most friction, and developing an action plan with Product and Engineering management to address
- Coordinating around upcoming feature launches and raising unseen risks
What You Bring To The Table
- BA/BS or equivalent
- 5+ yrs project management experience
- A grasp of agile first-principles and latest practices
- Proficient in JIRA management and administration
- Integrity and honesty, ability to be trusted and to work with highly sensitive and confidential information
- Highly resourceful, self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership in areas of responsibility
- Skilled in organizing and prioritizing competing time demands
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
