IT Project Manager (Digital Products)
Summary
Manages end-to-end delivery of digital products, coordinating Agile teams, vendors, and testing phases to ensure on-time, secure releases and smooth post-launch support.
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and action items.
- Track project progress against scope, sprint commitments, and release schedules, resolving delivery risks and dependencies.
- Coordinate release planning, production deployment, operational readiness, post-launch stabilization, and business handover.
- Support Agile delivery by facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and follow-up actions.
- Monitor vendor performance, contractual deliverables, payment milestones, and project escalations.
- Prepare project status reports, governance updates, steering committee materials, and project documentation.
- Coordinate system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), operational readiness, security assessments, and release readiness activities.
- Track defects, remediation plans, cybersecurity risks, and compliance activities to support successful production releases.
- Manage project budgets, procurement activities, invoices, contracts, and asset tracking.
Requirements
- 5-8+ years of experience managing or supporting the delivery of digital products or enterprise systems from planning through implementation and post-launch support.
- Strong project management skills, including risk, issue, dependency, vendor, budget, procurement, and stakeholder management.
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments and coordinating cross-functional teams.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills, with experience preparing project reports, governance papers, and meeting documentation.
- Professional certifications such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, PMP, or Business Analysis are are a plus.
- Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Project Management, or a related discipline preferred.