Agile Project Manager

  • Full-time

Company Description

Line2, based in downtown San Francisco, is a cloud-based phone service that offers separate business and personal phone numbers on your mobile phone, tablet and computer. Designed for freelancers and small businesses, Line2 is a complete VoIP phone line with phone number, texting, calling, caller ID and visual voicemail. Line2 operates seamlessly over Wi-Fi and 4G/LTE networks, and provides advanced call handling and business features.

Job Description

Line2 is looking for an energetic and knowledgeable person to bring an Agile project management approach to the way we build software. You will take over and expand upon our current software development process in a way that support management’s needs along with the engineer’s desire for focus. Primary responsibility is the people and projects critical to our customer facing Apps. This role is one iterating work of the client development team towards innovative and timely results through the use an Agile approach. Line2 is a small company with an useful and enabling product, and your contribution will matter to our customers.

  • Lead projects for a small, diverse group of software developers building Line2 customer facing Applications in iOS, Android, Windows, Mac and on the Web.
  • Include dependencies, such as the supporting cloud services or vendor supplied components, when planning out project work.
  • Manage the project workload of developers using Agile techniques, e.g. as the Scrum Master.
    Work closely with Director of Engineering to develop buy-in and match strategy for project initiatives.
  • Own task estimation, anticipate bottlenecks and make tradeoffs to balance business needs against technical constraints to meet committed timelines.
  • Engage other stakeholders, Product, UX, Operations and QA, to ensure teams work together as needed.
  • Communicate clearly using written and verbal means to keep stakeholders informed on project status and ongoing work.

Qualifications

  • 3 years’ experience in managing projects that includes using Agile Project management techniques. 
  • Expertise in one or more Project Management tools. Knowing JIRA is a plus.
  • Knowledge in the capabilities of the technologies targeted by the team: iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Web.
  • Friendly demeanor and willingness to help others with their timing and resource issues.
  • Some exposure to telecom is a bonus. Trying out the product counts as telecom exposure!

Additional Information

Working for Line2 is going to put your knowledge and aspirations to the test and you will come out the better for it. Our success is a result of the emerging changes in the mobile business world, including the boom in smartphones, the shift to IP based communications, and the continuing explosion of cloud-based services. With your help Line2’s product offerings will stand out from the competition.