Project Manager I

Company Description

We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

Job Description

Are you a project management pro with great agile skills?  Do you enjoy coaching your teams to reach new levels of performance?  Are you looking for a company that will invest in you and help develop your skills?  Do you want your work to feel meaningful?

If you answered “yes” to each of these questions we’d love to talk to you. We are seeking highly talented scrum masters and agile project managers to join our PMO team!

Please note, this position requires to be in the Lehi, Utah office twice a week.  

Duties:

• Lead agile teams to successfully create and test software deliverables within a committed timeline
• Facilitate agile ceremonies (such as daily standups, retrospectives, backlog grooming and planning sessions) to support the creation of software deliverables
• Model, mentor, and coach agile best practices to improve productivity and ensure operational excellence
• Coordinate dependencies across organizational boundaries to fulfill completion of software deliverables
• Guide agile teams through a SDLC
• Ensure project work adheres to established standards and project governance requirements
• Work with a Product Manager and other stakeholders to clarify project scope and priority
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations
• Report and communicate the progress of agile teams to stakeholders
• Work with stakeholders to manage project scope and maintain elevated project quality
• Remove roadblocks from the agile team to facilitate rapid delivery
• Clearly identify, document, communicate and mitigate risks to project success

Qualifications

• Must be located within commuting distance to the Lehi, UT office for a hybrid schedule
• BA/BS in business or technical field or equivalent work-related experience and training
• 2+ years relevant project management experience.  Experience in an agile software development environment is highly preferred.
• An agile project management certification (such as SAFe Certified Scrum Master (SSM) or Certified Scrum Master (CSM)) is desired.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office, common diagramming tools (e.g. Lucidchart, Visio), and project/issue management tools (e.g. Jira)
• Understanding of project management and development lifecycles
• Ability to manage integration, scope, schedule, quality, resources, communication, risks, procurement, and stakeholders as it relates to projects

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Additional Information

In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale.

We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.

Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate.
• Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other
• Add Value by delivering immediate and sustained results that drive positive outcomes
• Innovate by redefining what’s possible, embracing challenges, and pushing boundaries

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