About the Organization
Chegg, Inc., is an American education technology company based in Santa Clara, California. It provides homework help, digital and physical textbook rentals, textbooks, online tutoring, and other student services.
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Project Manager II who has a passion for working with Platform Teams. As a Project Manager and Chegg, you are detail-oriented, solution-focused and collaborative, and you bring strong project management and Scrum Master expertise to our cross-functional product engineering teams.You will be the person who coordinates behind-the-scenes to make sure our most critical engineering projects are delivered. Our Project Managers must manage all factors that determine project and team success to ensure delivery within time, cost and quality parameters, taking work from discovery through delivery, including resource management, dependency mapping, scheduling and development of project plans and project and team level reporting.
The Organization
The Chegg Learn PMO supports the planning and delivery of Chegg’s key strategic and operational initiatives. We partner closely with business, product, engineering, marketing and operations leadership to ensure alignment from strategy to delivery. Through planning, coordination, and collaborative communication, we help teams stay focused on our mission – helping our students thrive in the most challenging and rewarding times of their lives.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Facilitation of end-to-end scoping and estimation
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to manage the planning to execution process of product engineering projects.
- Monitor scheduling, project flow, dependency mapping, planning and resource management from accepted concepts through delivery for product engineering projects.
- Manage the development, maintenance and distribution of complex status reporting to manage and communicate expectations and potential risks across the organization.
- Identify and escalate issues to leadership, as appropriate.
- Facilitate effective and efficient meetings including all Scrum ceremonies and daily stand-ups.
- Escalate and radiate impediments for resolution and assist with identifying and mitigating risk.
- Maintain transparency into the team’s work through Agile tools and metrics. Track and communicate team progress. Leverage data to measure & monitor progress. (Burndown charts, etc.)
- Engage multiple roles and stakeholders in critical discussions for consensus building.
- Help identify external dependencies and assist the Product Manager and Engineering Managers in planning and facilitating the maintenance of the team backlog.
- Acts as a point of contact for project team members, clearly and consistently communicating the needs of the organization.
Requirements
- Have a strong understanding of Project Management principles and appropriate agile methodologies and processes.
- You have experience driving Product Engineering projects
- You have worked in an agile framework.
- Take ownership of problems and never shy away from a challenge.
- Flexible and tolerate ambiguity while still operating effectively.
- Are a self-learner, willing to learn new skills, industries, and platforms
- Certified Scrum Master
Preferred Qualifications
- 1-2 years’ experience in a Technical Project Management role, preferably within engineering
- Solid understanding engineering’s role within an organization
- Project management qualification (PMP) or equivalent
- Proficiency in project management software tools such as Jira Software, Jira Align and Smartsheet
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