Assistant Project Manager

Responsibilities
- Planning out the blueprints for software projects, including defining the scope, allocating resources, setting deadlines, laying out communication strategies, and indicating tests and maintenance
- Assembling and leading the project team
- Participating in and supervising each stage of the project
- Ensuring each project stays on schedule and adheres to the deadlines
- Creating a project budget and ensuring the project adheres to the budget as closely as possible
- Perform risk management to minimize/mitigate project risks
- Determining and overseeing consistent testing, evaluation, and troubleshooting of all products in all stages of completion
- Track project performance - milestones, deliverables, and change requests
- Delivering completed software products to clients and performing regular checks on the products' performance

Skills
- Proven experience in project management and software development, estimation techniques
- Project Management Professional (PMP) / PRINCE II certification is a plus
- Good leadership, decision-making, and organization skills
- Strong attention to detail and multi-tasking skills

JD - System Analyst

 

1. Analysis and design of technical functionality and features.
2. Creation of requirements document and definition, Epics, User stories and addition of same to Fresh Release.
3. Facilitate daily scrums, stand-ups and meetings to monitor project progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing.
4. Collaborate with product owner and stakeholders and clear project obstacles and impediments that could slow down the team’s progress.
5. Meet and coordinate with internal stakeholders to establish project scope, system goals, and requirements.
6. Help the team boost their productivity and performance and helps development team create high-quality products.
7. Arrange and optimize product backlog.
8. Develop, analyze, prioritize, and organize requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow.
9. Translate highly technical specifications into clear non-technical requirements.
10. Manage the set-up and configuration of systems. Provide documentation of all processes and training as needed.
11. Define and coordinate the execution of testing procedures and develop test cases to serve the overall quality assurance process.
12. Draw up, supervise and document testing schedules for complete systems.
13. Perform design, implementation, and upgrades of information systems to meet the business and user needs.
14. Implement best practices for scalability, support ability, ease of maintenance and system performance.
15. Identify options for potential solutions and assess them for both technical and business suitability.
16. Oversee implementation of a new system including data migration.

Responsibilities:

•  Maintaining an updated status of projects that are underway.
•  Tracking utilization of resources and maintaining plan for them.
•  Manage Invoicing.
•  Prepare and track project progress and ensure all project activities are completed on-time.
•  Track project work times and keep accurate timesheets.
•  Run project status meetings, daily stand-ups, and other team   meeting.
•  Data collection and preparation of templates.
•  Coordinate between various internal teams/clients.
•  Document the needs for client.
• Change management if there are any new requirements or proposed changes.
• Knowledge of Project tracking software (Jira ) would be added advantage.
• Experience in handling large volume of data in Excel and Google Spreadsheets.
•  Adherence to the expected roles and responsibilities w.r.t ISMS and QMS.
•  Gathering and analyzing project data to identify its weaknesses and resolve any time-related or budgetary snags.

Looking at IT Infrastructure, Application and Hardware Administration, tracking of renewals of software/hardware, technical support, vendor interaction and project priority tracking. Manage team and availability of infrastructure to ensure 99% plus uptime. Help to manage project priorities and integrations. ( If we get a Tech Support Manager then also it should work.)

Key Skills:

• Developing new product features
• Working on developing product strategies
• Problem Solving 
• Communication
• Analytical
• Project Management

Job Responsibilities

• As an APM, you will be reporting to Product Owners. Our product is at a very young age, and hence has a long way to go. As an APM, you get to work on the vision of the product and get direct involvement with the ideation and implementation of product features. The key responsibilities of this position will be:
• Collecting quantitative product data and metrics
• Synthesizing customer research
• Gathering product requirements and aligning them with business goals
• Coordinating with stakeholders to achieve the product vision

ABOUT THE POSITION Responsibilities This opportunity is with Future of Technology practice at Capgemini India Invent team. The Future of Technology practice is focused on helping businesses capture the possibilities of emerging technology by creating tailored solutions for every type of business and sector. In this role consultants need to work as the Scrum Master Product Owner or Project Leader:
• Facilitate cross-functional engineering teams in the delivery and implementation of new products or upgrades to existing products. There is an on-front expectation that this accountability can span up to two distinct Scrum teams.
• Coordinate and facilitate daily Scrum meetings sprint planning release planning and sprint retrospectives for up to two cross-functional Scrum teams.
• Coordinate dependencies to other Customer Scrum teams.
• Develop detailed schedules project estimates resource plans and status reports conduct project meetings and ensure adherence to quality standards.
• Facilitate monitor and track the team’s progress toward goals.
• Maintain multiple-sprint release plans release trajectory and release burndown based on capacity and velocity predictions.
• Facilitates cross-team program wide rituals like release planning or program retrospectives.
• Promote continuous improvement and help teams increase efficiency to maximize capacity promote predictability and assure software and process quality.
• Establish team working agreements help resolve impediments facilitate productivity and increase the probability of success in each sprint.
• Provide visibility of team status and issues to senior management.
• Promote a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity innovation and commitment to objectives.
• Work closely with product owner towards the success of the product release.
• Track team’s Agile process metrics and ensures availability of latter to stakeholders e.g. Burn-down charts

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
• Success in this role will be measured through the ability to drive business transformation using the technology/digital knowledge and Agile project management skills

Accountabilities
• Consultants are expected to be fully accountable for the delivery of their stream/projects

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS Must Haves
• Experience in Agile Coaching; should be able to other agile coaches.
• Ability to influence behavior without having organizational hierarchy; strong change management skills.
• Needs to forecast the numbers of deliverables possible in an iteration which is based on evidence and reliable source.
• Needs to be expert in estimation and planning. Knows how to create useful reliable and practical plans for software development projects
• Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories Acceptance Test Driven Development Test Driven Development Continuous Integration Continuous Testing Pairing Automated Testing.
• Strong knowledge of Tools such as: JIRA Confluence Clarity.
• Good facilitation communication and interpersonal skills Desired

ALTERNATE TITLES Project Manager, Project Lead
DEPARTMENT Production
COMPANY Project X
REPORT TO CEO

We are looking for an analytical and smart-working professional who has at least 5 years of multiple project management and team handling experience.
You will be responsible for the day-to-day management and smooth operation of various digital & IT projects, including site launches, digital marketing, web applications, ad campaigns, hardware & software deployments etc.
You should be an excellent leader and will have experience in managing staff of different disciplines to produce quality results in a timely manner. You should also be able to develop efficient strategies and tactics.

ABOUT COMPANY

Founded in 2020 by Tarang Sanghi, Project X is an innovation lab, based in Jaipur, RJ (India) at its stealth-startup phase.
Our lab's designed to create and launch new companies, products and services. It's invaluable in jump-starting novel ideas that can either disrupt or complement existing companies. We draw from our cross-functional expertise and collaborate to create these new offerings.
We come up with new ideas, execute them, and iterate until the idea is fully implemented. For more details: www.tarangsanghi.com
Currently, we are putting together a team of the best and the brightest! We look forward to receiving your application

ABOUT DEPARTMENT

We strive to give our clients an amazing experience and ensure all work is delivered on time and on budget.
A smooth-running project creates the space for great work. We set our clients and our teams up for success by managing them, taking care of the details, ironing out issues, and making sure projects run on time and on budget.

AREA OF RESPONSIBILITIES

PROPOSALS

• Identify & document the Scope of Work (SOW), objectives and any assumptions.
• Prepare cost estimates for manpower + materials, and ensure we are charging accurately for our projects.
• Develop a detailed project plan, and monitor progress using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors.
• Seek opportunities for improvement and suggest new projects.

END-TO-END PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Ensure availability of all the tools and resources before initiating a project.
• Prepare and maintain timelines for the effective tracking and completion of the project.
• Delegate to internal resources and vendors effectively, and track progress ensuring the project runs on schedule.
• Coordinate with all the internal and external stakeholders for information, approvals, resolving issues, status updates, answering queries etc. While maintaining transparent communication.

MAINTAIN

• Maintain timesheet logs for all the resources.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports.
• Ensure standards and requirements are met through conducting quality assurance tests.
• Analyze and Highlight potential risks or malfunctions and act proactively to resolve issues ensuring the project stays on time and on budget.

Requirements

• YEARS OF RELEVANT EXPERIENCE- 5+ Years of relevant experience managing Digital / IT Projects.
• EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS** - We prioritize skills over degrees but Bachelors/ Masters degree/ diploma/ certification in Business, Digital Marketing, Computer Science or other relevant fields is a plus. Additional Project Management certifications like PMP/ PMI / PRINCE2 are highly desired.
• SOFTWARE AND APPLICATIONS- Tech-savvy with good knowledge of MS Office, and strong experience with project management software like Jira, MS Projects, Click Up, Asana, Wrike, Basecamp etc.

QUALITIES AND CAPABILITIES-​

• Excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal and consulting skills
• Ability to manage multiple teams and projects simultaneously
• Excellent organization and time management skills
• Ability to meet targets and deadlines.
• Quick thinking, problem solving skills
• Detail-oriented
• Budget management
• Confident, pleasant personality, ambitious, self-motivated.

Benefits
​We offer competitive compensation and benefits.

Project Manager

Who we are?

Searce is  a niche’ Cloud Consulting business with futuristic tech DNA. We do new-age tech to realise the “Next” in the “Now” for our Clients. We specialise in Cloud Data Engineering, AI/Machine Learning and Advanced Cloud infra tech such as Anthos and Kubernetes. We are one of the top & the fastest growing partners for Google Cloud and AWS globally with over 2,500 clients successfully moved to cloud.

What we believe?

• Best practices are overrated

• Implementing best practices can only make one n .

• Honesty and Transparency

• We believe in naked truth. We do what we tell and tell what we do.

• Client Partnership

• Client - Vendor relationship: No. We partner with clients instead. 
• And our sales team comprises 100% of our clients.

How we work?

It’s all about being Happier first. And rest follows. Searce work culture is defined by HAPPIER.

• Humble: Happy people don’t carry ego around. We listen to understand; not to respond.

• Adaptable: We are comfortable with uncertainty. And we accept changes well. As that’s what life's about.

• Positive: We are super positive about work & life in general. We love to forget and forgive. We don’t hold grudges. We don’t have time or adequate space for it.

• Passionate: We are as passionate about the great street-food vendor across the street as about Tesla’s new model and so on. Passion is what drives us to work and makes us deliver the quality we deliver.

• Innovative: Innovate or Die. We love to challenge the status quo.

• Experimental: We encourage curiosity & making mistakes.

• Responsible: Driven. Self motivated. Self governing teams. We own it.

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

1. Love for cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion for sales: When was the last time you went at a remote gas station while on vacation, and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on cloud?’

Do you cloud?

1. Expertise driving infrastructure engineering projects & transform initiatives from deep-tech startups to 42,000U (1,000 42U racks) loaded enterprises.
2. Have you tandem-jumped at least 50 times taking along a trusted business having on-prem workloads to safe-land onto a public cloud with a soft touchdown?
1. Do you understand the innards of Apache web servers on Linux and Sharepoint Server Farms alike?
2. Do you speak CloudFormation? Terraform? Do you speak JSON? 
3. Do you love automating everything possible leveraging Python / Powershell / Bash?
3. Are you a voracious reader fascinated by the latest & greatest innovations on public cloud?

Introduction

We welcome *really unconventional* creative thinkers who can work in an agile, flexible environment. We are a flat organization with unlimited growth opportunities, and small team sizes – wherein flexibility is a must, mistakes are encouraged, creativity is rewarded, and excitement is required.

1. This is an entrepreneurial project management position that challenges the client status quo by helping them re-imagine the art of what is possible using consulting mindset and business strategy skills.
2. This position requires fanatic iterative improvement ability - ability to coordinate with Sales - Presales - Delivery - MS and get project delivery done. 
3. This position is for hard-core-geek-turned--engineer-turned-Tech enthusiast -turned-Project Manager.

What we are NOT looking for: Buzzword Bozos (BB) or Certification Chasers (CC).

What we seek is an AA (Awesome Attitude to Learn, Improve & Coach).

Not just a BB or CC? Quick self-discovery test:

When was the last time you thought about how GAN (Generative Adversarial Networks) can help auto-create new building designs for an architect or new jewellery designs for a designer OR passionately convinced a friend that Google Video Intelligence API or AWS Rekognition can now auto-video-screen an applicant with 90+% confidence level almost automating 75+% efforts of a recruiter, OR leverage Google Vision API to do e-KYC? If this is what you constantly get blamed for & your friends have made a strip for you on xkcd, you are probably the right-fit for what we are looking for.

Your bucket of Undertaking :

This position will be responsible to consult with the clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other.

1. Be the first one to experiment on new age cloud offerings, help define the best practise as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
2. Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
3. Use your experience in Google cloud platform, AWS  or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
4. Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitates the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud based technology and methods.
5. Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
6. Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code and other artifacts
7. Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in google cloud platform

Education, Experience, etc.

1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from 12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)

1. To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
2. 3 - 5 years of experience with at least 1 - 2 years of hands-on experience in delivering Cloud Consulting(AWS/GCP/Azure) projects in a global enterprise environment.
3. Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
4. Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies.

A quick self-discovery test below:

1. How you treat yourself & others?
1. You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
2. You have ‘one’ life - no work life or personal life. You are the same at both places.
3. You are generally happy and passionate about life. When shit does happen you know how to tell your heart ‘All is well’.
4. You are compassionate to yourself, you love your work, your company, your country, and are generally a person people like to be around.
2. How you work & live?
1. You make difficult & complex decisions in an environment filled with lack of well defined constraints and uncertainty.
2. You are able to admit to your team that you were shit scared while making those decisions.
3. You are able to juggle conflicting priorities and remain composed as the client keeps on changing requirements. :)
4. You are genuinely passionate about developing great software, learning a lot, helping others learn and  having loads of fun while doing so.
3. What you love?
1. You love things. You are passionate. You care for your self, family, country and Big Bang Theory (and this is a must!).
2. You love to organize, index, and improve things around you - Yes you are Sheldon’ish’ at times and ‘Leonard’ish’ the other times.
3. You are passionate about improving processes and you truly feel satisfied by making things better.
4. You love Google. And AWS. And Terraform. And CI - CD pipelines. And linux.

 

The Senior Manager, Organisational Development (OD) will lead the OD vertical and ensure that all collective and individual goals for the vertical are achieved. The Senior Manager is responsible for organisational oversight and the encompassing critical functions like stakeholder management, operations, communications, and strategy and impact. It is a versatile role that requires exceptional planning and project management skills. Overall organisational Growth and Development : Set the vision and goals for the vertical in consultation with the CEO Contribute to the strategic vision of all the programmes being implemented by Madhi Oversee the achievement of personal and professional goals of team members. Support and brainstorm with team members regularly about short and long-term goals Steer the verticals to achieve their respective programmatic goals and outcomes Stakeholder Engagement : Co-lead stakeholder engagement with the manager and help them hone their stakeholder management skills Plan and execute internal and external events with absolute attention to detail Draft reports, proposals and documents for various stakeholders including but not limited to donors, government departments, board of advisors etc. Design and Communications : Set the brand vision for Madhi along with the Communications Manager and execute the communications plan Ensure all internal and external communication aligns with Madhi’s quality standard and guidelines before it gets disseminated. Strategy and Impact : Network with other organisations and potential partners with whom Madhi can synergise Co-lead fundraising for the organisation along with the CEO Contribute to the strategic vision for all programmes being implemented by Madhi Human Capital Management : Ensure optimum operational efficiency and measure/track meticulously Co-lead Human Capital Management with the manager and support talent management activities for the team Provide regular and timely feedback to the CEO about organisational strength and areas of development and contribute toward the continuous improvement of organisational processes and structures Admin and Finance : Oversee the organisation’s financials and plan for cash inflow Support the Senior Associate with tasks - office administration, logistics for events and petty cash management.

- Good hands on team management, with strong IT background (Software Development Life Cycle, encryption etc) - Manage IT projects and segments by specific objectives and within specified resources. - Direct and monitor client's requirements,conditioning and take in charge of the progress of the project. - Ensure development of products and delivering it back to the clients with proper utilization of the available resources. - Define goals and outline approach and make adjustments within the constraints set to achieve the optimum results. - Ensure working conditions that permit project personnel to implement the development work in the most cost-effective manner. - Maintain an appropriate and healthy relationships with clients and ensuring the project results are comprehensible to manage. - Define and plan project progress, sub goals and milestones, time and resource planning. Manage and conduct works meetings,manage conflicts and crises. - Document - expected results, interim results. Carry out reviews. - Rich experience of min 4 years - Good written and verbal communication is (a) must - Good sense in terms of responsibility and ability to meet the deadlines - Ability to lead the plan and implement it - Self-driven and can facilitate the project plan as per the decided project budget plan - Theoretical & practical aspects knowledge of project management - Proven experience in strategic planning,risk management and people management - Wise in decision making, influencing and leading