Job Description

Agile Project Manager

Do you enjoy seeing individuals and teams reach their potential, and then surpass it? Are you a leader? Can you inspire a team, but have the courage to deliver the tough message when needed? Are you meticulous with details and will do whatever it takes to remove impediments and blockers that prevent the team from achieving their goals? Do you possess the necessary technical, process and people skills to explain complex problems in the simplest manner with different flavors to various stakeholders?

At Berkadia we do just that, and a lot more. With long term investments in people and technology, we are redefining the way our industry operates. From acquisition to disposition, we service all commercial property types including multifamily, retail, office, industrial, affordable housing, seniors housing, hotels, student housing, and manufactured housing.

The Agile Project Manager will manage and oversee multiple, highly complex business process and innovation projects ensuring all agreed upon objectives and deliverables are implemented in accordance with business requirements.

Responsibilities

• Ensures that project requirements and deliverables are completed on schedule and within budget.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining project and technical documentation (project schedule, testing schedule, project overview summary implementation plan, etc.)
• Responsible for the coordination of internal, contract, and vendor resources.
• Responsible for managing all phases of SDLC for development team.
• Manages relationship with users, clients, and vendors for assigned projects and development team’s deliverables.
• Facilitate defect triage and issue tracking management.
• Responsible for recognizing Healthy Teams metrics trends and creating actionable items to address those trends.
• Coaching individual development team members on Agile best practices.
• Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the Scrum Team.
• Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management.
• Ensuring the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value.
• Understanding and practicing agility
• Coaching the team towards self-reliance, including coaching team members around conducting agile events, scheduling grooming sessions and challenging the team to solve problems.
• Accountable for relentless improvement utilizing team retrospectives for Scrum/Kanban teams.
• Provides technical support as needed.

Qualifications and Experience

• Honesty, integrity, transparency, even when it is hard, Seriously though
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy, and consistency
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Qualifications and Experience (Preferred)

• Professional Project Management certification (PMP, CSM, SAFe, etc).
• 6+ years of total work experience
• 4+ years of experience of project management/agile delivery experience

Employee Benefits

• 18 PTO days + 2 floating holidays & 10 paid holidays per year
• Generous tuition reimbursement towards a Masters or Bachelors degree
• 401K match up to 6%
• 12 weeks of 100% paid paternity/maternity leave
• Mentorship with industry professionals

About us

Berkadia, a joint venture of Berkshire Hathaway and Jefferies Financial Group, is a leader in the commercial real estate industry, offering a robust suite of services to our multifamily and commercial property clients. Powered by deep relationships and industry-changing technology, our people sell, finance, and service commercial real estate, providing support for the entire life cycle of our clients’ assets. Our unique ownership structure allows us to put the client’s interests first and creates a marketplace that delivers a superior experience.

Berkadia does not share salary ranges in its job postings. Any salary-related information you see posted externally has not been provided or verified by Berkadia and may not be accurate. 

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Berkadia is an equal opportunity employer and affords equal opportunity to all applicants and employees for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected under local, state or federal laws.

Qualities of a Agile Project Manager

Judgment

• You make wise decisions despite ambiguity, and you know the tradeoffs
• You trust those around you to make decisions in the best interest of Berkadia
• You identify root causes, and get beyond treating symptoms
• You think strategically, and can articulate what you are, and are not, trying to do
• You are good at using data to inform your intuition
• You make decisions based on the long term and near term

Communication

• You are able to teach the technical aspects of agile in a simple manner
• You are concise and articulate in verbal and written communications
• You listen well and seek to understand before responding
• You maintain calm poise in stressful situations to draw out the clearest thinking
• You adapt your communication style to work well with people from around the world who may not share your native language
• You provide candid, helpful, timely feedback to colleagues
• You can start effect confrontation that builds trust

Curiosity

• You learn rapidly and eagerly
• You contribute effectively outside of your specialty
• You make connections that others miss
• You seek to understand our users, and how we can help them
• You seek alternate perspectives

Courage

• You say what you think, when it’s in the best interest of Berkadia, even if it is uncomfortable
• You are willing to be critical of the status quo
• You make tough decisions without agonizing
• You take smart risks and are open to possible failure
• You question actions inconsistent with our values
• You are able to be vulnerable, in search of truth

Passion

• You inspire others with your thirst for excellence
• You care intensely about our customers and Berkadia’s success
• You are tenacious and optimistic
• You are quietly confident and openly humble
• You look to empower and enable those around you

Selflessness

• You seek what is best for Berkadia, rather than what is best for yourself or your group
• You are open-minded in search of the best ideas
• You make time to help colleagues
• You share information openly and proactively
• You use opportunities to coach and teach when others ask

Innovation

• You create new ideas that prove useful
• You re-conceptualize issues to discover solutions to hard problems while keeping an open mind
• You challenge prevailing assumptions, and suggest better approaches
• You keep us nimble by minimizing complexity and finding time to simplify
• You thrive on change

Inclusion

• You collaborate effectively with people of diverse backgrounds and cultures
• You nurture and embrace differing perspectives to make better decisions
• You focus on talent and our values, rather than a person’s similarity to yourself
• You are curious about how our different backgrounds affect us at work, rather than pretending they don’t affect us
• You recognize we all have biases, and work to grow past them
• You intervene if someone else is being marginalized
• You disagree respectfully, and work to find common ground

Integrity

• You are honest; you do what you say, and say what you do
• You are known for candor, authenticity, transparency, and being non-political
• You only say things about fellow employees that you say to their face
• You admit mistakes freely and openly, and take responsibility for learning from them
• You treat people with respect independent of their status or disagreement with you
• Ability to maintain confidentiality, adhere to Berkadia's policies and exhibit proficiency and understanding of Berkadia's Values

Impact

• You accomplish amazing amounts of important work
• You demonstrate consistently strong performance so colleagues can rely upon you
• You make your colleagues better by debating, deciding and delivering
• You focus on results over process

Berkadia, as an equal opportunity employer, celebrates our employees’ unique differences, which we believe drives personal and company-wide innovation and creates a people-first culture where your career can take the long view. To achieve these goals, we are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals, without regard to race, religion, age, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, domestic partner status, military and veteran status, disability, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other status protected by federal, state and local laws. 

In keeping with our commitment, Berkadia takes the necessary steps to provide a workplace free from harassment and discrimination, as well as access and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you require reasonable accommodation to take part in the interview process, please contact talentacquisition@berkadia.com.

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