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Senior Agile Project Manager

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Are you passionate about delighting clients, creating organizational change, and most importantly, helping your teams create amazing products? We're looking for a Senior Agile Project Manager who is passionate about coaching teams and advocating for scrum and agile best practices.

As a Senior Agile Project Manager, you are an expert in agile development best practices. You have excellent logic and problem solving skills and a drive to make a difference. You will be responsible for facilitating agile development and making scrum work for your clients and project teams alike. You’ll serve multiple scrum teams across a variety of projects and clients in an environment where we strive for consistent, predictable, high-quality delivery.

As the Senior Agile Project Manager, you will:

  • Coach your team in agile best practices, including self-organization and cross-functionality
  • Organize and facilitate project planning, daily standup meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other scrum-related meetings; help the team and clients abide by time boxes and other agreements
  • Remove impediments to the team’s progress to its sprint commitments
  • Enact change & continuous improvement to increase the productivity of the team and quality of deliverables
  • Support the team, product owners, and clients to create clear and concise backlog items
  • Identify, manage, and help mitigate project issues and risks
  • Work with other Senior Agile Project Managers to increase the effectiveness of the application of scrum in the organization, constantly improving our standards, quality, and productivity
  • Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
  • Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices

Requirements:

  • A Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent training
  • 5+ years digital agency experience
  • Well versed in Confluence and Jira (or similar)
  • Effectively communicate complex ideas to team members and clients of all experience levels
  • Instill Agile values and make teams productive, at any level of maturity
  • Thoroughly understand the software development life-cycle, as well as technical issues at a high level
  • Understand agile software development values, principles, roles, cadence, flow and practices, including backlog sizing, release planning, Scrum of Scrums, continuous integration, continuous testing, pair programming
  • Propose creative and efficient solutions to complex, time-critical problems
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Zac Charnecki
Partner
A CULTURE OF INNOVATION
Encouraging an impactful and creative culture
“We are a firm of entrepreneurs. And let’s face it, people work to be compensated,” said Charnecki. Once associates’ needs are met with pay and benefits, though, “things shift dramatically to a desire for career satisfaction and work engagement.” The company helps encourage those aspirations to engage, learn, grow and create through Wipfli’s formal innovation pipeline; its center for empowerment; and programs like performance coaching, the company’s knowledge base, learning center and a new work alignment platform, which will provide performance metrics to Wipfli associates.
“We are a firm of entrepreneurs. And let’s face it, people work to be compensated,” said Charnecki. Once associates’ needs are met with pay and benefits, though, “things shift dramatically to a desire for career satisfaction and work engagement.” The company helps encourage those aspirations to engage, learn, grow and create through Wipfli’s formal innovation pipeline; its center for empowerment; and programs like performance coaching, the company’s knowledge base, learning center and a new work alignment platform, which will provide performance metrics to Wipfli associates.
“Our leadership team encourages aiming high and stretching ourselves through a lot of training and experience opportunities.”
Lumi Paulson
Consultant, Human Capital Management; Wipfli Pride Communications Chair
CULTIVATING COMMUNITY
Impacting the office, giving back to the community
As Wipfli Pride Business Resource Group’s communications chair, Paulson works to communicate and educate throughout the firm to advance a more inclusive culture. Wipfli Pride recently introduced pronoun and inclusive language training, as part of a larger program, which has graduated 10 trainers equipped to strengthen associates’ understanding of gender inclusivity. Additionally, Wipfli Pride has partnered with Wipfli’s charitable trust, the Wipfli Foundation, to support organizations like GLAAD, PFLAG, GLSEN, The Trevor Project and National Center for Transgender Equality.
As Wipfli Pride Business Resource Group’s communications chair, Paulson works to communicate and educate throughout the firm to advance a more inclusive culture. Wipfli Pride recently introduced pronoun and inclusive language training, as part of a larger program, which has graduated 10 trainers equipped to strengthen associates’ understanding of gender inclusivity. Additionally, Wipfli Pride has partnered with Wipfli’s charitable trust, the Wipfli Foundation, to support organizations like GLAAD, PFLAG, GLSEN, The Trevor Project and National Center for Transgender Equality.
“Wipfli is very open to seeing all perspectives, to growth and to striving to be a great place to work.”
Alex Yeh
Product Owner
CARING COWORKERS
A culture that values community
If Alex Yeh had to distill Wipfli’s culture into one word, it would be “nurturing.” In his role, his overarching responsibilities are to maximize the value his team delivers to clients and to support his colleagues as they solve myriad challenges. That feeling of support goes both ways, too. “People are not only willing to help out — they are willing to help you grow,” Yeh said. “I’m invested in my team members’ success and can confidently say they are invested in mine.” With ongoing projects in the works with Wipfli’s design team, Yeh has no hesitation that the camaraderie will continue.
If Alex Yeh had to distill Wipfli’s culture into one word, it would be “nurturing.” In his role, his overarching responsibilities are to maximize the value his team delivers to clients and to support his colleagues as they solve myriad challenges. That feeling of support goes both ways, too. “People are not only willing to help out — they are willing to help you grow,” Yeh said. “I’m invested in my team members’ success and can confidently say they are invested in mine.” With ongoing projects in the works with Wipfli’s design team, Yeh has no hesitation that the camaraderie will continue.
“There is genuine caring and camaraderie between the members of my teams and it’s evident in my daily interactions with everyone. There is a sense of community and trust that makes it easy for me to feel like I belong.”

What are Wipfli Perks + Benefits

Wipfli Benefits Overview

At Wipfli, curious is our approach to the world. We push beyond the obvious answers to find smarter solutions for clients and look at business challenges from every angle. People matter here, and they feel it. We invest in your career development through tuition reimbursement, external training support, LinkedIn Learning access and our internal online learning center and leadership training.

We also back up our mission to provide a strong work-life balance with great benefits, UTO, wellness benefits and programs to encourage a healthy lifestyle.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
We are committed to helping our communities and support time off for associates to volunteer. On average, they volunteer a combined 15,000+ hours each year.
Partners with nonprofits
The Wipfli Foundation supports education programs that support furthering diverse representation in our industry.
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Hybrid work model
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
All associates are required to attend unconscious bias training.
Diversity employee resource groups
This year, we launched three business resource groups (Women of Wipfli, Wipfli Pride and Embrace ) to give voice to and elevate issues inside our firm for diverse groups. And we plan to add more.
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance + Wellness
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Transgender health care benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Company sponsored family events
Fertility benefits
Including surrogacy
Vacation + Time Off
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid volunteer time
We are committed to helping our communities and support time off for associates to volunteer. On average, they volunteer a combined 15,000+ hours each year.
Sabbatical
Paid holidays
Punchkick observes all major holidays and supports observation of all religious holidays.
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Pet friendly
Fitness stipend
Onsite gym
Professional Development
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications

Additional Perks + Benefits

Our culture is steeped in values focused on our associates and it drives the benefits we offer

• Empower: We give our people the opportunities and resources to find, follow and grow to achieve their dream career.

• Connected: We value everyone’s individual strengths, and we cultivate a culture where relationships thrive.

• Impact: Our passion for excellence drives us to get results through our expertise, experience and teamwork.

• Transparency: We welcome candor so all voices and perspectives come together to solve problems and serve clients.

• Flexibility: We give people the freedom to shift their career paths and achieve work-life balance, which creates happier and more productive teams.

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