Agile Project Manager

Company Description
**OpenBet is sport**. The world's top **sports betting** brands choose OpenBet as their partner for world class content, **leading tech** and tailored services. We have their back. So they’re ready with exciting, memorable and safe sports betting experiences, to entertain millions of players worldwide.

OpenBet’s mission is to **power growth** and **player engagement** for operators through a **global betting ecosystem** that delivers at **scale**, at **speed**, at every great sports event. Our 1000 talented colleagues are the market's top team. We achieve billions of bets in a season; 60,000+ per second (more transactions than Amazon on Prime Day); 100% uptime (zero Superbowl crashes) and we're built on 25 years of imaginative technology that is iterated daily.

OpenBet has established a **premium client base** of more than 75 operators **worldwide** and has 34 licences across the fastest growing regulated sports betting markets in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The team is **growing at scale** driven by accelerated demand for our products and significant investment. We offer the speed, dynamism and growth opportunities of a start-up, underpinned by the stability and strength of a global employer.

Working at OpenBet every day is an **opportunity** for you to create **exciting** betting entertainment for millions of sports fans **across the globe.**

**Job Description**:
Objective of the role:
Coordinate planning and execution of a specific work-stream across involved engineering teams of a specific pillar. Ensure consistency with company strategy, commitments, and goals, according to the defined software delivery process.
Act as the interface between Engineering and GPMO / Product Management / Customer Success Management.

**Responsibilities**:
Processes
- Oversee and drive consistent and effective team processes
- Ensure that the Sprint Ceremonies of the team are run effectively and efficiently
- Coach a team on the preferred process
- Collaborate as member of the Delivery Department to identify patterns in impediments, resolve issues and formulate improvement steps

Initiatives
- Assigned to drive an Initiative or a work stream

Planning
- Drive backlog prioritisation in alignment with Product / Project Manager
- Facilitate the definition of work scope and estimation, resource allocation planning and delivery timelines
- Proactively manage changes in the scope, identify potential crises, and orchestrate contingency plans

Communication/ Reporting
- Effectively communicate delivery expectations to team members and stakeholders based on the discussions with Product and Project Mgmt
- Identify and facilitate ceremonies to coordinate work across the teams in order to achieve initiative goals.
- Develop methods to monitor work progress and provide delivery reporting (Provide a detailed level of progress monitoring and transparency). Cooperate with Development Lead to get the KPIs from the teams

Execution
- Facilitate the high-level estimation of new initiatives
- Ensure initiative will be delivered within the agreed timeline - track timelines, milestones,and deliverables
- Drive discussion with stakeholders to identify, analyse, prioritize, mitigate, and communicate the risks
- Assist in the resolution of conflicts within and between workstreams or functional areas
- Actively manage dependencies between the teams and different workstreams

**Qualifications**:

- University or College Degree in Computer Science or relevant field;
- At least 3 years of experience as a Delivery Manager or Project Manager or Scrum Master in an agile software development environment or a similar role;
- Good leadership skills. Able to motivate, support and drive change at a team level;
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written;
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, embracing the change and driving improvement. Working effectively without comfort zone boundaries;
- Good understanding of **Software Development Lifecycle** and Software Development Processes;
- Working knowledge of JIRA or similar tools;
- Prior experience in software engineering is preferred;
- Good understanding of risks, issues, and the triple constraint.

Additional Information

This position is hybrid, 2 days a week in the office which is located near Peel metro station.
Working hours are flexible.

**Why would you enjoy this opportunity with OpenBet?**:

- An opportunity to work with a close team directly for a big name customer.
- Cutting edge technologies and products.
- Responsibility for all parts of the system, which means a huge room to grow within the job.
- Competitive benefits.
- An open and supportive environment.
- The opportunity to interact with global teams and the possibility to switch teams as you and our business continues to develop and grow.
- Exposure to real work, business-critical projects, the chance to develop exciting client projects, and interact with lots of