Technical Project Manager (Scrum Master) - Epsilon

Important: This is a hybrid-role working at least 2 days per week in the San Diego, CA office.

How You’ll Make an Impact

Epsilon is seeking a Technical Project Manager to join our strong and steady Project Management team supporting our Automotive channel. You will bring previous experiences, best practices, and a collaborative attitude to help drive revenue growth and increased effectiveness in the value and quality of the software we create.

• Work together to win together: The Technical Project Manager will report to the Manager, Project Management. You will work across the Automotive Delivery team to foster a continuous improvement mindset including proposing and facilitating changes to help improve the use of agile methodologies to deliver software enhancements to our customers. 

• Innovate with purpose: As part of the technical project management team, you will work with team members in the development, product, QA, IT, and other downstream systems to align schedules and tasks, improve communications, identify and remove impediments, and manage risks. You will report into PMO and have functions, such as but not limited to Portfolio Management, tools management, process documentation, project metrics, and reporting.

What You’ll Achieve

• Impact: You will collaborate across departments to establish release and product development schedules and establish project plans for delivering roadmap initiatives.
• Career Growth: If successful, the Technical Project Manager may gain exposure to other clients where you can make the most impact. Also, you may have an opportunity to level up to a Senior level role helping to mentor more junior project managers and hone your leadership skills.

Who You Are

• What you’ll bring with you:
  • Must be able to support product, development, and quality teams with iteration planning, story breakdown, and breakdown activities.
  • Must be able to manage and configure tools to support the development work items and processes.
  • Facilitate Agile ceremonies for their respective Scrum team(s) and participate in key scaled agile ceremonies, such as Scrum of Scrums, Quarterly Forecasting, and Monthly Planning with all Scrum teams.
  • Manage projects in ADO and Confluence; providing software training to team members as needed
  • Ability to coach team members as needed, including resolving conflict
  • Initiative – Advocating for process changes and experiments to improve team efficiency and consistency.
  • Problem Solving – Implementing best practices for predictable release planning, including workload capacity, and distribution planning.
  • Collaboration – Communicating release schedules and timelines to other departments.
  • Organization – Calculating and tracking team productivity (velocity), to help determine and manage release timelines.
  • Above all else, foster and model a collaborative team environment driven to build great software while having fun
• Why you might stand out from other talent:
  • Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field
  • 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • Understanding of contemporary agile methodologies, best practices, and trends required.
  • Experience using Agile performance metrics to drive accountability and continuous improvement
  • Experience with agile planning software tools required, familiarity with ADO & Confluence preferred.
  • Experience with Agile development processes like Scrum, Kanban, and XP preferred.
  • Familiarity with multi-team agile frameworks such as SAFe, or LeSS preferred.
  • Automotive Industry knowledge

Salary Range: $75,000.00 - $85,000.00

The application deadline for this job posting is 11/23/2024.

Epsilon at Our CORE  

Epsilon is a global advertising and marketing technology company positioned at the center of Publicis Groupe. Our products accelerate our clients’ ability to harness the power of their first-party data to activate campaigns across channels and devices, with an unparalleled ability to prove outcomes.  For decades, we’ve been helping marketers from the world’s top brands personalize experiences for millions of people with our cutting-edge technology, solutions and services. Our best-in-class identity gives brands a clear, privacy-safe view of their customers, which they can use across our suite of digital media, retail media, messaging and loyalty solutions. We process 400+ billion consumer actions each day and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work of every employee, Epsilon has been consistently recognized as industry-leading by Forrester, Adweek and the MRC.    

Epsilon has a core set of 5 values that define our culture and guide us to create value for our clients, our people and consumers. We are seeking candidates that align with our company values, demonstrate them and make them meaningful in their day-to-day work:  

• Act with integrity. We are transparent and have the courage to do the right thing. 
• Work together to win together. We believe collaboration is the catalyst that unlocks our full potential. 
• Innovate with purpose. We shape the market with big ideas that drive big outcomes. 
• Respect all voices. We embrace differences and foster a culture of connection and belonging. 
• Empower with accountability. We trust each other to own and deliver on common goals. 

Because You Matter 

As an Epsilon employee, you deserve perks and benefits that put you, your family and your finances first.  Our benefits encompass a wide range of offerings, including but not limited to the following:  

• Time to Recharge: Flexible time off (FTO), 14 paid holidays 
• Time to Recover: Paid sick time  
• Family Well-Being: Parental/new child leave, childcare & elder care assistance, adoption assistance  
• Extra Perks: Comprehensive health coverage, 401(k), tuition assistance, commuter benefits, professional development, employee recognition, charitable donation matching, health coaching and counseling  

Epsilon benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms.  

Epsilon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Epsilon’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on actual or perceived race, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Epsilon also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. Epsilon will provide accommodations to applicants needing accommodations to complete the application process. Please reach out to LeaveofAbsence@epsilon.com to request an accommodation.

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