Project Manager

Project Manager  (Remote US)

Heretto, a leader in content management solutions, is looking for outstanding humans that love delivering quality products. We’re a well-funded & growing startup with a big heart and giant ideas. Come have a big impact as a Project Manager.

Role purpose:

Project Managers are the facilitators of continuous Product Delivery. You enable teams to deliver value iteratively while maintaining focus on outcomes over outputs. You are responsible for removing impediments, fostering collaboration, and ensuring sustainable delivery velocity across development teams. You will facilitate agile ceremonies, optimize team processes, and ensure our development flow aligns with Business Objectives and Product Vision. Come work with us if you're servant-leader minded and you know the principles, practices, and procedures used in Agile. We're looking for a full-time Project Manager with technical understanding, strong coaching skills, and drive to deliver value.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate continuous delivery of product increments through iterative development cycles
• Coach teams on agile practices and help optimize delivery velocity and quality
• Remove impediments and blockers that prevent teams from achieving sprint goals
• Facilitate agile ceremonies including daily standups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Foster collaboration between engineering, design, QA, and product teams
• Monitor team health metrics, velocity trends, and delivery flow efficiency
• Ensure delivered increments meet definition of done and acceptance criteria
• Guide teams in breaking down complex features into deliverable user stories
• Analyze team performance data and facilitate continuous improvement initiatives
• Support Product Roadmap execution and release planning activities
• Tracking of dev/qa/devops software renewals 

Requirements:

We care that you love bringing valuable products and features to end users.

• Friendly, positive, and collaborative attitude
• Flexibility is important, and rigidity is challenging
• You have worked as a Business Analyst for product development and have experience with at least one large application
• You have a deep understanding of business analysis and agile product development practices
• Experience with requirements and/or product lifecycle management tools (e.g., JIRA, Azure DevOps, etc.)
• Critical thinking and analytical skills
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Strong English written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to periodically get together for in person collaboration (a few times a year)

How We Roll:

At our core we are a product company full of pragmatists.

• We care that you have managed projects for large applications
• We care that you have coordinated complicated deliverables across teams
• We care that you are curious
• Ageism is dumb; we love people with experience
• Interview processes shouldn’t be torture, for either of us

Other:

• Employment start: as soon as you’re available
• Employment end: indefinite
• Working hours: US Eastern Time,  some 8am ET meetings
• Flexible working hours
• Full benefits
• Great team and atmosphere

This position is full time, we will only consider candidates located in the US. No visa sponsorship.  We operate on the Eastern Time zone.  

About Heretto:

Headquartered in Rochester, NY, Heretto helps our customers deliver knowledge more quickly and consistently. Our product enables deploying knowledge content to customers at each of their touchpoints, in their language, and tailored to their needs. By adopting our software, our customers see significant savings in cost and time to market, while simultaneously driving a better customer experience.

We are changing the status quo for knowledge publishing and finally resolving the plague of corporate knowledge silos. Our customers range from growing small businesses to Fortune 500 Enterprises who use our product to manage millions of topics and rely on us to maximize their use of structured content inside and outside their organizations. Our open architecture allows us to integrate with a variety of systems with a wide range of APIs bringing unique solutions to our clients’ content management needs.

Heretto is a service mark of Jorsek, Inc. 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

Job Type: Full-time