Agile Project Manager

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Job Description

• As an Agile Program Manager, you will play a critical role in driving delivery excellence across complex, multi-workstream initiatives.
• This position blends the responsibilities of a Scrum Master and a Program Manager, ensuring agile teams operate effectively while proactively managing cross-team dependencies, risks, stakeholder communication, and delivery outcomes.
• You will work closely with business stakeholders, engineering teams, product teams, client partners, and external vendors to coordinate execution and enable predictable delivery in fast-paced environments.
• This role is ideal for individuals who are passionate about building what matters and thrive in collaborative, agile, and outcome-focused environments.

Your Impact

• Facilitate Agile/Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Drive program execution across multiple teams and workstreams while ensuring alignment to business objectives.
• Identify, manage, track, and communicate cross-team and cross-vendor dependencies.
• Establish and maintain program governance practices, delivery plans, RAID logs, and status reporting mechanisms.
• Proactively identify risks and impediments, coordinate mitigation plans, and escalate issues appropriately.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Delivery Leads, Architects, Engineering teams, and Vendors to ensure successful delivery outcomes.
• Enable transparency through regular stakeholder communications, executive status reporting, and delivery dashboards.
• Utilize Jira and Agile management tools to monitor progress, track metrics, and maintain delivery visibility.
• Foster continuous improvement by identifying process optimization opportunities across teams and programs.
• Support release planning, roadmap alignment, milestone tracking, and execution management.
• Facilitate collaboration among business, technology, and vendor teams to achieve shared goals and successful outcomes.
• Drive accountability while promoting an environment of openness, collaboration, and continuous learning

Qualifications

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in Agile project management, Scrum, or SAFe methodologies.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, and scaled Agile delivery practices.
• Advanced proficiency with Jira and Agile planning/reporting tools.
• Demonstrated experience working in complex multi-vendor and multi-stakeholder environments.
• Proven experience managing inter-team dependencies and coordinating delivery across multiple workstreams.
• Strong risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and escalation capabilities.
• Experience preparing and presenting executive-level status reports and program updates.
• Ability to work effectively across business, technology, product, and vendor organizations.
• Strong facilitation, communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• Experience managing competing priorities, navigating ambiguity, and driving alignment across diverse groups.
• Solid understanding of Agile delivery metrics, forecasting, capacity planning, and release management.
• Ability to lead discussions, resolve conflicts, and facilitate decision-making across teams.
• Bachelor’s degree required; degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, or related field preferred.

Set Yourself Apart With

• Experience supporting large-scale digital transformation programs.
• Certification(s) such as Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Program Consultant, PMI-ACP, or PMP.
• Experience coordinating globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Exposure to enterprise technology implementations, cloud transformation, data, AI, or digital product delivery initiatives.
• Strong analytical and reporting capabilities with experience using dashboards and delivery metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to foster inclusive collaboration, transparent communication, and stakeholder alignment.
• Passion for continuous learning, coaching teams, and driving Agile maturity

Additional Information

• An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.
• Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Flexibility to support work-life balance.
• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family.
• Wellness program and employee assistance.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]