Reuters News Agency Looking for Associate Agile Project Manager at Toronto, Ontario, Canada Full Time

Associate Agile Project Manager, Product Engineering

Are you looking to join a team where you can help facilitate the development of cutting edge technologies, machine learning/artificial intelligence, and SaaS based solutions? Then come join the Thomson Reuters Project Management Team as a Associate Agile Project Manager where you can do all of that.

About The Role

In this opportunity as Associate Agile Project Manager, you will:

• A problem-solver who works by forging consensus and bringing out a team’s innate wisdom.
• Comfortable and excited by information technology.
• Able to plan and facilitate Agile ceremonies, including Stand Ups, Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, Backlog Grooming and Story Grooming.
• Skillful facilitation of Retrospectives and the ability to apply learnings a must.
• Able to plan and execute productive meetings that define clear actionable next steps to move your projects forward.
• Maintain relevant metrics and information radiators to guide the development teams and show their progress in meeting business objectives.
• Partner with product owner/product manager to effectively create, maintain and refine the product backlog.
• Facilitate communication channels for the Scrum/Kanban teams and associated business and technical stakeholders to ensure the vision, goals, progress and product delivery commitments are visible and well understood.
• Identify and remove impediments and blockers that prevents the teams from delivering their sprint goals.
• Manage the team dependencies and coordinate work with other internal or external teams.
• Experienced using tools to productive effect (ADO and JIRA Experience, especially with the JIRA Agile plugin strongly preferred).
• Be a champion for Agile transformation in our organization.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Associate Agile Project Manager if your background includes:

• Bachelors Degree in applicable field
• Demonstrable 3+ years hands-on experienced with Agile Scrum and Kanban methodologies
• Experience providing facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, team empowerment and motivational techniques regarding Agile and Scrum/Kanban
• Ability to balance several projects across more than one team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Understanding of full life cycle development: requirements gathering, analysis, design, coding, unit testing, and acceptance testing and how these activities can fit into a Scrum environment
• Experience with software delivery in the Cloud is a plus
• Experience using Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams
• Must be a certified Scrum Master, holding either a PSM or CSM
• Strong analytical and design skills
• Must be able to work independently as well as collaboratively.

What’s in it For You?:

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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