Job Description:
The Agile Technical Project Manager in Paris is responsible for leading cross-functional development teams to deliver high-impact IT projects using Agile methodologies. This role plays a key part in bridging technical execution and business strategy, ensuring that software development initiatives are aligned with organizational goals, timeframes, and quality standards.
Operating within fast-paced environments, the Agile Technical Project Manager works closely with product owners, developers, QA engineers, UX designers, and stakeholders to define project scopes, manage sprints, and track progress. They are accountable for establishing and maintaining effective Agile practices, fostering a culture of continuous delivery and iterative improvement throughout the team.
The role involves defining clear project objectives, removing blockers, facilitating scrum ceremonies, and using metrics to evaluate team performance and velocity. It is crucial for the Agile Technical Project Manager to maintain a clear product backlog and work with stakeholders to prioritize features based on value, complexity, and customer needs. Communication and transparency are key, as they provide ongoing status updates to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Based in Paris—a hub for innovative tech companies and startups—the Agile Technical Project Manager must be adaptive and technologically fluent. They are expected to support both cloud-native and on-premise infrastructure projects, lead DevOps-aligned efforts, and guide teams through agile transformations when necessary.
This role contributes significantly to ensuring timely delivery, improving team dynamics, and aligning development activities with the evolving needs of the business. Through a mix of servant leadership, technical understanding, and process governance, the Agile Technical Project Manager ensures agile principles are not only followed, but embedded into the organization’s development DNA.
Job Requirement:
Candidates for the Agile Technical Project Manager position must possess a strong understanding of Agile frameworks, particularly Scrum and Kanban, and how they are applied in technical environments. Proficiency in project planning, sprint backlog grooming, burndown tracking, and retrospective facilitation is essential. The role requires hands-on experience managing full lifecycle software development projects and delivering technical products on time and within scope.
The ability to coordinate multiple technical teams across various locations or time zones is critical. Candidates should be well-versed in using Agile project management tools like Jira, Confluence, or Azure DevOps to drive workflow transparency, maintain documentation, and measure team performance with clear KPIs. Comfort with CI/CD pipelines, microservices architecture, and cloud deployment strategies is highly valued.
Strong leadership and communication skills are required to mediate across product, engineering, and operations teams while advocating for best practices. The Agile Technical Project Manager should have the ability to coach team members, nurture self-organizing teams, and resolve conflicts constructively. Their focus should remain on value delivery, risk mitigation, and customer-centric outcomes.
A deep appreciation of iterative delivery models, MVP (Minimum Viable Product) concepts, and adaptive planning is essential. This role also demands analytical thinking for anticipating challenges and planning around scope creep, technical debt, and resource limitations.
Candidates must also show the ability to translate technical complexity into business terms, ensuring that stakeholders remain informed and aligned. Being proactive in identifying process inefficiencies and suggesting automation or structural improvements is expected. The successful applicant will demonstrate resilience under pressure, agility in shifting priorities, and a collaborative mindset that puts people, process, and product at the core of project execution.
