Career Opportunity

Technical Project Manager (People Tech) - San Francisco Digital HR - Department of Human Resources (1053)

Recruitment: REF27861L

Published: July 16, 2023

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About:

San Francisco’s Digital HR team is charged with acquiring, building, and managing an innovative suite of tools and applications to create impact on our employees at every step of their journey from applicant through retirement. The small, but mighty (and growing), team drives people technologies throughout the City’s 35,000+ person workforce, rethinking the relationship that our teammates have with our systems. As part of a broader, human-centered approach to re-imagining human resources throughout the City, the Digital HR team also provides foundational data to help leaders make data-driven decisions.

What we believe

The Digital HR team believes in a City where technology is universally accepted as a tool for improving the daily life of our employees, our applicants, and, through them, our neighbors. 

Role description

As part of the Digital HR Product team, you will work in tandem with the team’s Senior Product Manager to drive the execution of people technology system developments in all areas of the City’s HR ecosystem, directly influencing how the team fulfills its mission and vision. You will be responsible for coordinating across functions within and outside of the Digital HR team to ensure that product delivery is on time and that our commitment to quality is on point.

Technical projects may include ground-up application development utilizing cloud-first architectures such as serverless functions and NoSQL databases. Projects may also encompass configuration and integration with vendor managed SaaS products, as well as system expansion and development in Platform-as-a-Service environments.

On a typical day you may:

• Lead team standups and sprint planning exercises ensuring that the goals of the current iteration remain on track and helping coach the team to success.
• Coordinate work prioritization with the Product Manager to ensure that stakeholder and user perspectives are accounted for, and leadership milestones are being met.
• Participate in code review sessions with engineers prior to production deployments
• Advocate for engineers and developers, working to preserve team health, through workload calibration and road mapping exercises.
• Distill broad workstreams into actionable work items and tasks.
• Coordinate high-level project tracking with other HR Modernization teams to ensure that handoffs are seamless.

How to qualify

What you know

You have an excellent working knowledge of:

• Agile project management concepts including sprint cadences, artifacts, and retrospectives.
• DevOps product lifecycles.
• Software delivery and/or go-to-market methodologies and planning.
• Cloud technology fundamentals including Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
• Release management and source control tools such as Git.

Preferred skills and qualifications

• Understanding of programming fundamentals in Python, JavaScript, PHP, and/or other common programming languages.
• Experience as a Scrum master, or leading agile teams in a small to medium sized software development organization.
• Possession of a project management credential and/or an agile certification (examples: Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP), or Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM)).

Qualifying

You have at least:

• An associate’s degree (or equivalent coursework) in computer science, business, or a closely related field, or a minimum 60 credit hours, of which at least 20 credit hours are in computer science, business, or a closely related field.

-AND-

• Three (3) years of experience in an information systems field including system analysis, business process design, development and implementation of business application solutions or IT project management.

You may substitute up to two additional years of experience, on a year-by-year basis, in exchange for the required education. One year of full-time experience is is equivalent to  one year of education.

What else should I know?

Applying

This recruitment is open until filled, but will not close earlier than July 14th, 2023. Please do not provide a cover letter. The selection process may include one or more interviews, presentations, or practical exercises.

Compensation

Entry compensation for this role is between $120,536 and $151,658 dependent on education and experience. Salary increases every six-months up to top of pay band.

Not your typical government team

The Digital HR team is a growing technology team nested within the City's Department of Human Resources. Our culture resembles the collaborative nature of a startup DevOps team, supporting the full lifecycle of each of the technology products that we acquire and build.

Hybrid work culture

We work in a hybrid environment, and you may be expected to work in the office on a regular basis 1 day per week and up to 3 days per week, based on team and project requirements. In-office workdays are flexible and can be tailored to fit your needs as well as the needs of the role.

Exempt employment

This role is exempt from the San Francisco Civil Service Rules, and employment is at the discretion of the appointing officer for a period of not-to-exceed three years. (Category 18) 

CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT:  All City and County of San Francisco employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Someone is fully vaccinated when 14 days have passed since they received the final dose of a two-shot vaccine or a dose of a one-shot vaccine. Any new hire must present proof of full vaccination status to be appointed. Any new hire who will be routinely assigned or occasionally enter High-Risk Settings, must provide proof of having received a COVID-19 booster vaccine by March 1, 2022, or once eligible.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.