Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master, Engineering PMO

NEOGOV is a SaaS company serving public-sector organizations through HR, recruiting, employee development, and management solutions. The role leads portfolio-level delivery governance and execution across multiple SaaS products, driving planning maturity, release predictability, risk management, cross-functional alignment, operational metrics, and AI-enabled PMO innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and orchestrate annual, quarterly, PI, and sprint planning across multiple product lines
• Drive portfolio-level roadmapping alignment to ensure business priorities translate into executable plans
• Improve planning maturity, forecasting accuracy, and release predictability
• Ensure cross-team dependency visibility and proactive risk mitigation
• Coordinate release readiness and milestone execution to improve delivery confidence and quality outcomes
• Act as the escalation point for portfolio-level blockers, risks, and resource constraints
• Identify systemic delivery inefficiencies and implement structural improvements
• Optimize scope, sequencing, and prioritization in partnership with Product and Engineering
• Increase delivery transparency while reducing reactive firefighting
• Drive faster issue resolution through structured facilitation and cross-functional alignment
• Define and standardize scalable PMO governance frameworks across assigned products
• Establish and monitor KPIs that improve:
• Delivery predictability
• First build quality
• Release stability
• Cross-team dependency management
• Risk exposure reduction
• Leverage JIRA, eazyBI, and reporting tools to generate executive-ready insights
• Translate delivery data into actionable recommendations for continuous optimization
• Influence without authority across Product, Engineering, QA, Design, and Business stakeholders
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership on delivery, health, and execution strategy
• Strengthen collaboration models across distributed and remote teams
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and outcome-driven execution
• Apply AI-powered tools to enhance planning, reporting, forecasting, and documentation
• Utilize OpenAI GPT or similar technologies to automate reporting, analyze delivery trends, and generate portfolio insights
• Continuously evaluate modern delivery tooling to improve efficiency and decision-making

Requirements:

• • 5+ years of experience in project, portfolio, or PMO leadership within SaaS or enterprise software environments
• • Proven track record in managing multiple complex product initiatives simultaneously
• • Strong experience in scaled agile environments (SAFe or SAFe-lite preferred)
• • Deep expertise in JIRA, eazyBI, and delivery analytics
• • Demonstrated success in improving delivery predictability and operational metrics
• • Excellent facilitation, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills
• • Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple engineering teams
• • RTE experience or similar portfolio-level coordination strongly preferred
• • PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe certification, or equivalent preferred
• • Experience leveraging AI tools in delivery management is highly desirable