Junior Project Manager

Are you ready to join Connecticut Innovation’s vibrant community of innovators? Connecticut Innovations (“CI”) is Connecticut’s strategic venture capital arm, and we are passionate about serving our portfolio of 220+ companies across various industries, with strengths in life sciences, technology, and climate tech.

Come join Dream Payments | Embedded Payments for Insurers, FI's, and Software Platforms as a Junior Project Manager!

Company Profile

Dream Payments is a leading fintech company that empowers businesses with secure and innovative payment and payout solutions. Specializing in cloud-based payment processing, Dream Payments enables financial institutions, merchants, and insurance providers to seamlessly accept and send digital payments. Dream Payments’ scalable and secure platform helps organizations modernize their payment infrastructure, enhance customer experiences, and drive revenue growth.

Position Overview

Dream Payments is looking to add to our Project Management team with a motivated Junior Project Manager. Reporting into our lead Project Manager, the Junior Project Manager is accountable on an ongoing basis for guiding projects and implementations in accordance with our short-term plans and long-term strategy for Dream Payments’ cloud and platform services.

Working with a diverse cross-functional team that includes Architecture, Engineering, Product, QA, and Client Services, you will coordinate and execute technology projects with long-term organizational goals in mind. You will be hands-on with detailed project work, creating and contributing to project plans and deliverables, coordinating activities and tasks, facilitating problem-solving, running stand-ups, and working with team leads to gather and update estimates. If you are passionate to see projects deliver well – please apply!

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and participate in cultivating a helpful, team-oriented environment by collaborating in open knowledge sharing.
• Foster self-organization, cross-functional skills, and effective communication within the Scrum team.
• Ensure assigned tasks are completed and delivered within the project timelines, working overtime as needed.
• Facilitate all Scrum events, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Proactively track Project or Sprint daily activities across the teams and accurately report status and risks to the Project manager and internal stakeholders.
• Work with Project Management team to prepare estimations of development efforts and activities breakdown.
• Utilize corporate objectives and priorities to ensure teams are working on the right piece of work.
• Understand Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid project management methodology.
• Interact with peers before updating supervisors, interaction will often be with management levels at the client and/or within Dream Payments.
• Guide, create and coach the Scrum Team on Agile practices and principles to deliver high-quality products and services.
• Exemplify and promote Agile values and principles, contributing to the continuous improvement of Agile practices.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to influence decision-making and support project or product teams.

Basic Qualifications

• Good communication skills - both oral and written.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience working on agile software development and modern, service design-based product delivery for large organizations.
• Experience planning work that aligns with product owner priorities.
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall methodology.
• In-depth knowledge of Agile principles, Scrum frameworks and techniques.
• Experience working with teams of 10+ developers and QA teams would be an asset.
• Proficiency with Agile development tools such as Zoho Projects, Jira, or similar platforms.

Professional Skill Requirements

• Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment.
• Proven ability to communicate and work with remote teams.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
• Education background in computer systems and/or engineering considered an asset.
• Working experience with various SDLC methods like Iterative or traditional waterfall.
• Scrum Master certification would be an asset.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT:

Dream Payments is committed to diversity and the principles of equal employment opportunity for all employees.