Vynyl's clients face pressing challenges in system modernization, new product development, and rescuing distressed projects, often within regulated industries. The company aims to solve these challenges by leveraging cloud-native and AI-enabled tools, applying Agile, Lean, and design thinking methodologies.
Requirements
- Strong command of agile delivery (usually Scrum or Kanban), while being flexible to the requirements of our clients.
- You are a Jira expert (though there are some new and interesting alternatives), and adept at managing backlogs, epics, sprints, tickets, releases… and expectations.
- Technical fluency, including familiarity with common tools and technology stacks; comfortable collaborating with engineering leads.
- Design fluency, including design thinking, rapid prototyping, UX, and familiarity with common tools (e.g., Figma); comfortable collaborating with product and design leads.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams (engineering, design, product), including distributed collaborators.
- The ideal candidate probably has prior, hands-on experience as a software/data engineer, UX/UI designer, or product manager embedded in a software development team.
- Demonstrated ability to produce logic (truth tables, etc).
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end delivery across multiple engagements, agile ceremonies, roadmaps, and iterative releases with measurable outcomes.
- Translate business objectives into clear requirements and acceptance criteria; ensure tickets are unambiguous and testable.
- Keep abreast of the rapidly developing use and deployment of AI tools and techniques, and collaborate with your team and company leadership to integrate this knowledge into our approach.
- Coordinate across disciplines to ensure data readiness, evaluate and integrate AI model outputs, and ensure alignment with explainability, trust, and governance practices.
- Plan and track work (milestones, risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies), budgets, and delivery signals (e.g., burnup/burndown, velocity).
- Mitigate risks proactively; lead issue triage and escalation paths.
- Coordinate the day-to-day work of our engineers, designers, and product leaders, and work with client partners to ensure seamless collaboration and quality delivery.
Other
- 4+ years of software project management or in a related role in a consultancy/agency or product organization delivering custom software.
- People like working with you. You are the type of person who engenders trust and confidence.
- The ability to understand the client’s real goals and constraints in order to focus your team on identifying opportunities and unlocking business value.
- The ability to rapidly understand new business models and product ideas.
- Excellent written communication skills. Using AI is great, but you know how to make sure outputs say what you actually mean them to say, with clarity and good taste. This means you could do it yourself, independent of AI.
