Junior Delivery Manager
Toronto
Product – Delivery Management /
Full-time /
Hybrid
For 22 years, Thrillworks has built lasting relationships with some of the world’s most respected organizations—discovering and realizing the full potential of human-centric, technology-driven products, from web and mobile apps to microservices and websites.
Our approach emphasizes cross-disciplinary collaboration and obsessive, value-based prioritization, designed to expose and exploit only the most valuable digital opportunities.
We turn ideas into experiences and experiences into marketable products that provide customer value and business impact.
Description
We are looking for a highly organized Junior Delivery Manager who has a passion to learn, to support clients in unlocking both experience and business value. An individual who has a drive to immerse themselves into a collaborative workspace through a project lifecycle.
The Junior Delivery Managers will collaborate with cross functional teams to support project planning, financial forecasting, program communications, risk and issue tracking, and scope management.
You’ll blend project management skills with the scrum mindset to bring an uncompromising focus on delivering to project/program milestones and the ability to motivate teams to achieve them.
What You’ll Do
- Support with cross functional teams through new engagements to build project proposal, estimation, roadmap, while creating experience solutions that are holistic and executable.
- Under delivery lead’s direction, oversee the implementation of small-scale project scope/requirements through the project lifecycle.
- Facilitate project ceremonies with an Agile approach to estimate stories, prioritize and deliver value. Sessions may include project kick off, discovery, roadmap and estimation planning, and sprint demo.
- Support project resourcing activities through project planning, resource meetings and tooling setup
- Maintain a transparent approach to risk management that is both qualitative and quantitative. Identify and de-risk issues early, provide visibility on project impact and mitigations strategies with clear next actions.
- Monitor project estimates and budgets to meet budgetary objectives, while taking prompt action to prevent slippage on either front.
- Provide internally and externally visibility through regular reporting and communicate progress and risks at both sprint and overall project level.
What You’ll Bring
- +1 years of program management experience delivering digital products.
- Post-Secondary degree in Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or related discipline.
- Experience leading projects with multiple tasks in a professional services environment – with knowledge of product lifecycle from discovery to implementation.
- Risk management with proven ability to establish approaches and decision-making which continuously mitigate risks.
- Working knowledge of digital platforms and technology frameworks.
- Proficiency with agile methodology, such as Scrum and Kanban.
- Experience using collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, MIRO, and any other project management tools.
- Passion with a drive to overcome challenges. You have a bias for action and facilitate team consensus.
Great-to-haves
- SCRUM Master certification or relevant experience.
- Agency or consultancy experience.
Why join?
At Thrillworks, we are partners in digital acceleration. In essence, we work together to accelerate the journey toward a competitive advantage for our clients and ourselves by solving the right problems.
Regardless of the department you belong to at Thrillworks, you will have a hand in the vision and realization of innovative ideas and high-quality outputs.
Clarity and autonomy. We want all of our employees to feel involved. That means ensuring everyone knows what we are working on and why; creating space for idea-sharing and creativity, and allowing people to make decisions without the constant need for approval. We are in hyper-growth mode and we hope you are as excited as we are about making an impact through technology with purpose.
Challenges and growth. At Thrillworks, we know our people are our biggest asset, and we do everything we can to make them feel recognized, heard and appreciated. Under the guidance of a supportive and patient manager, you will have the chance to build out your insights, gain exposure internally and externally, and grow your expertise.
With everything we do, these are our guiding values:
Unity: We are heading in the same direction, acting and working as ONE.
Curiosity: We are open-minded and hungry to improve.
Courage: We aren’t afraid to take chances or to admit (and learn from) mistakes.
Passion: We care about challenges, the outcomes, and our contributions to meeting them.
What we do is the product of who we are and how we think. Apply now!
Thrillworks is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind, as we believe in Diversity & Inclusion as a way to build stronger and successful teams. Accommodation is offered to all candidates upon request.
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