Project Manager – Design Hoofddorp, Netherlands
Project Manager – Design Description
Job #: 74739As a recognized leader, EPAM is listed among the top 15 companies in Information Technology Services on the Fortune 1000 and ranked as the top IT services company on Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list for the last three consecutive years. EPAM is also listed among Ad Age’s top 25 World’s Largest Agency Companies and in 2020, Consulting Magazine named EPAM Continuum a top 20 Fastest-Growing Firm.
DESCRIPTION
Do you have a personal interest in agile domain, theoretical knowledge, and relevant experience in scaled Agile environment? Are you a Project Manager with Experience Design background or an Experience Design (UX/UI) professional with a desire developing towards project management direction?
If the answers are yes, then please read on!
We are looking for a Project manager with design agency experience to manage an integrated cross-platform team of product designers in the Media and Entertainment domain. This project concerns the development of a centralized household Multimedia Hub, based on ‘Set Top Box’ device class. This Multimedia Hub provides access to a wide range of media content, including Live Broadcasting channels, Video on Demand, Replay content, Recordings, Radio channels, third-party Applications.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring the team’s process evolves within organizational guidelines and standards of practice
- Build & prioritize backlog with Product Owners, facilitate sprint events
- Work on process enhancements
- Remove impediments
- Help team to deliver requirements in accordance with the Release calendar
- Provide documentation on new Features per Release
- Encourage, support, and guide continuous improvement of the team, its products and processes
- Help team with creating specification snapshots
- Coach team to be self-organizing
- Facilitate agile activities and meetings
- Maintain relevant metrics that provide organizational visibility and help the team see how they are doing
Requirements
- Strong understanding of agile delivery, sprint-based working cadence. Scrum certification a plus
- Experience working across the entire SDLC with close collaboration with designers, front end development teams and product management to deliver digital experience for web, mobile and custom applications
- Detailed understanding of the design process, including the ability to manage time expectations and estimations for Experience Design (UX/UI) tasks and requirements
- Customer management experience (including building relationships that are opening opportunities for increasing EPAM presence on the existing projects and new/planned ones)
- Extensive agency experience required
- Strong English and communication skills required, Dutch language is a plus
We offer
- Competitive Compensation
- 26 paid holiday days
- Commuting to work- costs reimbursement
- Option to participate in our Pension Plan scheme OR Health insurance Compensation
- Discretionary Performance Based bonus
- Laptop + Corporate Simcard
- Annual Salary Review
- Trainings, Internal Education and Dutch Language Courses
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
- Relocation Package
- Regular Corporate and Social Events
- The opportunity to be part of a diverse and multicultural company
- EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) (subject to certain eligibility requirements)