The Project Manager is the central communication hub. This role is responsible for coordinating daily activity across a 10-person senior engineering team, managing client relationships, and ensuring the project reaches production-readiness. The PM owns the delivery rhythm—sprint planning, demos, retrospectives, and structured reporting—while proactively surfacing risks before they become blockers.
- Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary liaison between Distillery and the client stakeholders, facilitating regular touchpoints and SME access.
- Own the end-to-end project plan, tracking progress across a 34-week, 17-sprint schedule
- Lead Agile/Scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Maintain full transparency via live Jira board updates and bi-weekly sprint demo coordination.
- Identify and mitigate risks related to timeline, integration dependencies, and compliance requirements.
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies between backend, mobile/web, QA, DevOps, and data engineering.
- Produce structured status reports for client stakeholders who prefer reporting over direct ceremony participation.
- Manage onboarding of the Automation QA engineer at Sprint 5 and any mid-engagement staffing changes.
- Requirements
- 5+ years of project management experience in software development, with at least 2 years in fintech or regulated industries.
- PMP, CSM, or equivalent certification preferred.
- Proven experience managing Agile/Scrum teams of 8-12 engineers.
- Strong familiarity with Jira or equivalent project tracking tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to translate technical complexity for executive stakeholders.
- Experience managing nearshore or distributed teams across multiple time zones.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver enterprise software on aggressive timelines.
- Nice to Have
- Background working with ACH, payments infrastructure, or financial services