Job details
Job type full-time
Full job description
Everyday health group (ehg) is a recognized leader in patient and provider education and services attracting an engaged audience of over 60 million health consumers and over 800,000 u.sPracticing physicians and cliniciansOur mission is to drive better clinical and health outcomes through decision-making informed by highly relevant information, data, and analyticsWe empower healthcare professionals and consumers with trusted content and services delivered through everyday health group’s world-class brands.
The opportunity:
Medpage today is hiring! we are looking for a junior level agile/scrum project manager who is passionate about leading a cross-functional team of technology professionals to get things doneThis position will work with two distinct teams of technologists: our new york-based tech/product team, and our business intelligence/data science teamBoth of those teams seamlessly made the transition to a fully remote workforce due to the covid-19 pandemic, so remote applicants will be seriously considered for this role.
Responsibilities:
Help product team to prioritize stories in backlog and coordinate commitment in the upcoming sprints
Analyze backlog to project delivery dates based on engineering team capacity, sprint schedule and dependencies on other work and teams
Coordinate with others on the project and product management teams to ensure that projects and individual stories are sprinted according to their priority or deadline
Be the front line of support for incoming bi requests to ensure prioritized tasks are routed to the appropriate team for execution
Identify external dependencies on work owned by other teams (data, reporting, marketing) and third-party systems (e.gCrm system such as salesforce, communications platforms like sailthru)
Facilitate stand ups, sprint planning, bug scrubbing, retrospectives, and other scrum/agile ceremonies
Mitigate risks to an active sprint or feature-set by maintaining a reasonable scope and addressing any process bottlenecks that may arise
Ensure that communication and collaboration between all groups and individuals is productive and timely, regardless of geographic location
Qualifications:
Experience leading an agile/scrum team of developers and qa engineers through the software development life cycle, building technical systems in any tech stack (1-3 years)
Experience administering or curating atlassian jira (or equivalent sdlc management suite)
Safe agilist, pmp, csm, or equivalent certifications are a must
Strong analytical skills, proficient in deriving metrics and creating helpful reports to manage scope and projects
Ability to manage multiple product initiatives, address impediments as they arise, and push to get things done
Experience with both public-facing web platforms and purely internal data systems is a plus
Understanding of how large volumes of data can be harnessed to improve business outcomes
Familiarity with basic database architecture and how those systems are utilized
Effective as a conduit or concept-translator between technical groups and non-technical stakeholders
Experience leading projects with a distributed team is a plus
Opportunities:
Join a mature, established team that understands the value of process and those that uphold it
Apply traditional sdlc agile principles to a data science team whose output is fundamental to organizational success
Work in an organization that has the stability and support of a large conglomerate, but the agility, freedom, and pragmatism of a smaller company
Brainstorm and innovate new process improvements with the project management team and the cross-functional tech team
Use dynamic plugins, the atlassian suite, and cloud-based software to construct useful automated reports
Collaborate with management to establish a plan for your long-term professional growth
Our culture and values
We love collaboration, always desire to understand the business problem we’re solving, push decisions down as low as possible, and want to further our culture of innovation and experimentationWe created our values together, to embody both our audience goals and our workplace aspirations: to promote diversity and create opportunities; to be authentic; to enable wellness; to ignite passion and reimagine possibilities; to be results driven with a bias toward action; and to inspire connectedness.
About everyday health
At everyday health group, a division of ziff davis, we work in a culture of collaboration and welcome those who desire to join our growing global communityWe believe in careers versus jobs and people versus employeesWe seek enthusiastic individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit looking for an environment that rewards your best work.
Everyday health offers competitive salaries in addition to robust health and wellness focused benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits; flexible spending accounts, 401(k) with company match, an employee stock purchase plan, pregnancy and parental leave,
Family planning support via maven, flexible time off, volunteer time off, fitness reimbursement as well as employee-focused engagement and education programs, including employee resource groups and company-sponsored eventsIf you’re seeking a dynamic work environment where you can see the direct impact of your performance, then everyday health is the place for you.
Everyday health group is an equal opportunity employerWe celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all employeesThis is a remote/office-based position which may be performed anywhere in the united states except within colorado.
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