Wilson Elser - Business & Legal Professionals

Wilson Elser - Business & Legal Professionals

Senior Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager

New York, New York · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$135k-$150kDetected 13 days ago
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About the role

  • The ideal candidate blends strong Scrum coaching with practical PM discipline and experience supporting legal or professional services systems.
  • Additionally, the ideal candidate needs to be adaptable, excel at facilitating change, and foster collaboration through servant-leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coach multiple agile delivery teams and facilitate scrum ceremonies to drive predictable delivery.
  • Partner with Product Owners, IT, Legal Operations, and project sponsors to prioritize work, define scope, and maintain a well-refined backlog.
  • Manage cross-team dependencies, systems integrations, and database / data lake implementations.
  • proactively manage stakeholder expectations and change requests.
  • Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives, metrics-based improvements, and Agile coaching.
  • Remove impediments, resolve conflicts, and escalate risks; proactively manage stakeholder expectations and change requests.
  • This role will drive Agile adoption within the firm, manage complex integrations, and apply formal project-management practices where appropriate to support successful product delivery.

Requirements

  • 7+ years' experience as a Scrum Master and/or Agile Project Manager leading multiple teams.
  • Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban
  • Proven project management skills: planning, risk management, dependency coordination, and change control.
  • Demonstrated success delivering complex software projects, including systems integrations and vendor implementations.
  • SAFe or equivalents) and Agile metrics/diagnostics.

Skills

  • Experience operating in hybrid or non-Scrum environments and applying PMP-style governance when needed.
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and executive reporting skills.
  • Hands-on experience with Agile tooling (Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or equivalent).
  • Experience mentoring and developing other Agile practitioners.
  • Bachelor's degree and CSM, PSM II/III, CSP, SAFe SPC, or PMP.
  • Experience with Aderant (or similar legal practice management/billing systems).
  • Prior experience working in a law firm, legal operations, professional services, or legal-technology product environment.
  • Familiarity with financial systems, ERPs, or billing system integrations.
  • Experience with API-based integrations, ETL, or data migration projects.
  • Certifications such as Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM), equivalent, or above.
  • Exposure to DevOps practices, CI/CD, and release automation.
  • Experience leading change management or organizational transformation programs.

Compensation

  • $135,000 - $150,000 USD

Benefits

  • Outstanding benefits package, including 401k match and generous PTO plan
  • Access to corporate discount plans and other benefits

Company info

  • We are unable to consider submissions from recruitment agencies without a current (dated as of 7/1/2024) agreement in place.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • cisions will be made without regard to an applicants race, color, age, sex, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, physical or mental d
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