GroundtRuth

Role Type: Individual Contributor (IC)

A bit about you

We are looking for a results-driven Program Manager to lead and coordinate the successful delivery of complex, cross-functional technical programs. You will serve as the operational anchor of GroundTruth’s Product Organization, working closely with Product Owners and Engineering Leads to align on strategy, execute delivery, and manage dependencies. This role demands strong program management acumen, stakeholder coordination, risk mitigation, and a deep understanding of Agile practices. You will be the delivery arm of GroundTruth’s Product Organization, closely engaged with their Engineering peers and actively participating with oversight on scheduling, management of dependencies, and orchestration of cross-functional engineering teams to launch new products and solutions successfully. You are strong communicators, comfortable in technical conversations, and take ownership of decisions informed by constraints in time, scope, budget, and staffing resources. You are highly organized professionals who are adept at balancing deadlines without sacrificing quality.

You will:

● Work closely with your Product Owner and Engineering Lead peers to deliver complex technical products and solutions.

● Own and orchestrate work breakdown, sequencing, task assignment, and scheduling of multiple work streams required for the delivery of those initiatives;

● Organize and maintain a calendar with dependencies to keep engineering teams unblocked and on schedule.

● Coordinate cross-functionally to manage dependencies with other Product Owners and Engineering teams;

● Own detail-level design deliverables (in close partnership with our design team) to provide functional specs for evelopment;

● Take ownership of value engineering initiatives to deliver cost-conscious solutions.

● Iterate on existing solutions to provide continued maintenance/monitoring of key products;

● Manage customer beta periods and lead rollouts for successful delivery.

You have:

● A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

● 6+ years of experience handling product and project teams in the software/tech industry.

● 2+ years of direct program management experience in Agile/Scrum environments.

● Proven success delivering projects in the AdTech or Digital Marketing industry.

● Strong proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, and project tracking tools (Gantt charts or equivalent).

● Demonstrated ability to deliver large-scale initiatives on time, within scope and budget.

● Experience managing cross-functional teams and working closely with stakeholders in Product, Design, and Engineering.

● Certifications like PMP, PgMP, or Agile are a plus.

You are:

● An organized and detail-oriented team player;

● Technically adept, comfortable working with engineering teams to design, scope, and deliver sophisticated products and solutions;

● A strong communicator who can collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders and find compromises and solutions;

● A detail-oriented person, working with multiple teams to propose and build solutions that add value to the business;

● A problem solver with a maker mindset.

Benefits

At GroundTruth, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.

• Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity
• Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays) 
• In Office Daily Catered Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks and Beverages
• Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents
• Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines
• Wellness/Gym Reimbursement
• Pet Expense Reimbursement
• Childcare Expenses and reimbursements
• Employee referral program
• Education reimbursement program
• Skill development program
• Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program).
• Internet reimbursement/Postpaid cell phone bill/or both.
• Birthday treat reimbursement
• Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as Voluntary Provident Fund and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic
• Creche reimbursement
• Co-working space reimbursement
• National Pension System employer match
• Meal card for tax benefit
• Special benefits on salary account

You will:

• Write excellent production code and tests and help others improve in code-reviews
• Analyze high-level requirements to design, document, estimate, and build systems
• Coordinate across teams to identify, resolve, mitigate and prevent technical issues
• Coach and mentor engineers within the team to develop their skills and abilities
• Continuously improve the team's practices in code-quality, reliability, performance, testing, automation, logging, monitoring, alerting, and build processes

You have:

For (Fullstack):

• 2 - 10 Years of experience
• Strong with DS & Algorithms
• Hands on Experience in the Programming languages: JavaScript (React or Angular), Python, SQL.
• Experience with AWS.

For (Geo Team):

• 4 - 10 years of experience
• Experience with Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Map Reduce, Kafka, etc
• Experience using object-oriented languages (Java, Python)
• Experience in working with different AWS technologies.
• Experience in software design, architecture and development.
• Excellent competencies in data structures & algorithms.

For (Backend):

• 2 - 10 years of experience
• Hands on product development experience using Java/ C++/Python
• Experience with AWS,SQL,GIT
• Strong with Data structures and Algorithms

Additional nice to have skills/certifications:

For Java skill set:

Mockito, Grizzly, Netty, VertX, Jersey / JAX-RS, Swagger / Open API, Nginx, Protocol Buffers, Thrift, Aerospike, Redis, Kinesis, Sed, Awk, Perl

For Python skill set: Data Engineering experience, Athena, Lambda, EMR, Spark, Glue, Step Functions, Hadoop, Kinesis, Orc, Parquet, Perl, Awk, Redshift

For (Data Engineering):

• 2 - 10 years of experience
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python.
• Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, RDS, Redshift,S3,Athena, Glue
• Must be proficient in GIT, Jenkins, CICD (Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment)
• Experience in big data technologies like Hadoop, Map Reduce, Spark, etc
• Experience with Amazon Web Services and Dockers