Business Analyst

Product Manager

Experience - 2 - 3 years 

Job Location - Vashi, Navi Mumbai

Skills Required - Product Management, Product Strategy, Product development, Business Analysis, Agile/Scrum, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) 

Role description: Primary responsibility of the role would be to define the product roadmap & backlog, work with business and functional teams to design and implement changes that drive user acquisition, user experience & monetization.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead a development team to implement product changes while working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders like Design, Sales, Operations & Management.
• Analyze data to derive product & business insights and use them to strategize changes. 
• Analyze data to derive product & business insights and use them to strategize changes. 
• Iteratively improve on the product by running tests.
• Be responsible for prioritization of features based on an assessment of business impact & effort.
• Report findings & periodic reviews with Management. 
• The ideal candidate would have the following qualities   
  
  
• Understanding and experience of Digital Product Development Life Cycle.
• Excellent business analysis & problem-solving skills.
• Result-driven, goal-oriented work ethic.
• Customer empathy, ability to think from the user's point of view.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills.
• Understanding of technology and exposure to software coding.
• Experience in Business Requirement Specification documentation/product backlog (Epics, User stories).
• Experience of working in an agile environment is preferred.
• Understanding of user experience (UI/UX).
• Product development experience including experience in digital product building/tech delivery is preferred. 

Responsibilities :      

• Requirement gathering and stakeholder management for client projects.
• Scope software development projects, create various documents (e.g. SRS, wireframes etc) and define development roadmap along side technical lead.
• Coordinate with clients day to day and act as a product owner to ensure the software being developed is conceptualised and delivered per client's expectations.
• Facilitate kick off meetings, requirement meetings and status meetings.
• Setting out quality standards for various operational areas, ensuring a high quality customer experience while adhering to the SLA’s and work processes 
• Use tools such as JIRA for project management/tracking.
• Verify and validate the software on a regular basis.
• Ensure in-scope development and obtain change request approvals by evaluating against change control processes.
• Conduct impact assessments and manage risks/resolution with least impact to project constraints.
• Manage and mentor a team.
• Coordinate with sales team and participate in pre-sales activities as and when required.

ESPORTS PROJECT MANAGER

Tesseract Esports is seeking a talented, enthusiastic and highly organized Esports Project Manager to join our team. As a successful hire for this role, you should be a strong communicator, have a passion for planning and organizing and enjoy working inside a flexible team-oriented environment. You should be well versed in project management styles, methodologies and processes. Tenacity, self-direction and follow-up skills are a must as well as the ability to anticipate issues and find effective solutions.

As a Esports Project Manager, you will lead and take part in developing, implementing, executing and reporting on different esports initiatives and projects. You will work closely with internal cross functional teams like league operations, production, creative, marketing as well as external partners, clients and vendors to ensure success of all our projects and programs.

About Tesseract Esports

Tesseract Esports was founded in 2015 with an intent to elevate and transform the nascent gaming scene in South and Southeast Asia into a high profile and professional esport. We played a pioneering role by being the first to launch and introduce mobile esports in the region. We were also among the first to produce the biggest and most successful esports events and gaming activations in India at an unprecedented scale, paving the way for the growth of esports in the country.

We have since gone to partner with game publishers, developers, brands and media platforms to produce large scale esports events and engagements and become one of the leading esports production houses in the Asia-Pacific. We have worked with Qualcomm, MPL, Tencent Games, Razer, Garena, Acer and several other partners on many successful live and online esports activations. We are a growing team of highly skilled and passionate individuals focused on delivering the best competitive experiences. We are headquartered at our state of the art production studio in Hyderabad, India which also happens to be the largest esports facility in South Asia.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Define project objectives, schedules, resource requirements, budget, and deliverables for different projects and programs in support of business goals.
• Lead and execute all tactical project management aspects of different esports programs and projects to expand our brand and viewership goals.
• Be responsible for creation and distribution of complete project plans, related documentation, and reporting requirements to all project stakeholders, internal teams and client personnel.
• Deliver and develop status frequency, and deliver progress reports, proposals, and requirements documentation, along with risks, contingency plans, and roadblocks to project stakeholders and leadership.
• Manage project expectations, timelines, milestones and deliverables.
• Conduct post mortems and create recommendation reports based on detailed project analysis.
• Provide regular insights and updates on the regional market development and eco-system, team/player sentiment, business opportunities and other relevant key data
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
• Act as key contact between internal departments and regional teams for successful execution of the project and meeting all deliverable timelines.
• Act as the primary contact for day to day information and updates for partners and client personnel.
• Control, coordinate and follow-up on recurrent tasks, assignments and deliverables of various internal departments working on the project.
• Track and analyze measurable criteria and KPIs to evaluate progress towards project objectives and develop business review and improvement reports.
• Assist different departmental leads to execute all program/project operations and marketing efforts (supervising and ensuring projects are moving forward in accordance with plans).

Qualifications (Required)

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience (project management, business management, event management marketing, sports industries, marketing, communications).
• 2 + years of relevant working experience in esports, gaming, entertainment or traditional sports programs.
• Have a deep comprehension of the various components that make up an esports program and be conversationally adept in them including broadcast production, player and team management, brand management, event management, content development, competitive structure and rulesets.
• Experience in organizing esports and/or digital content planning, productions and broadcast/distribution to drive viewership.
• Strong project management skills with ability to drive planning, schedules, budgeting, resource management, collaboration and status reporting.
• Passionate about gaming and esports, having a strong understanding of both gaming and cultural nuances in South and Southeast Asia.
• Knowledge of different project management methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, Scrum etc.
• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Proven ability to create, organize, prioritize, and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Demonstrate ability to keep a project team focused and on track in a fast-paced environment.
• Developed documentation skills showcasing ability to organize information in a clear and concise manner for varying audiences.
• A strategic thinker with the ability to conceptualize broadly across various solutions, yet enjoys operating at a hands-on level.
• Excellent presentation skills. Ability to articulate a vision, strategy or idea clearly with a strong capacity of syntax, learning and sharing with senior leadership.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to communicate effectively with different internal departments, teams and clients.

Qualifications (Preferred)

• Experience working as a project manager in the esports industry.
• Regional experience working across different countries/markets across South Asia, Southeast Asia and The Middle-East. Also preferred is market sensitivity, cultural curiosity and understanding differences in localization etc.
• Demonstrable track record of defining strategies in esports, entertainment or traditional sports industries.

Senior Product Owner (Digital Transformation)

Executive Summary
Are you looking to level up? The Senior Product Owner (Digital Transformation) role at FirstPrinciples and the partner that you will be staffed with is a multi-million dollar digital transformation initiatives on web and mobile with one of the largest large Luxury Home Builders in the United States.

About FirstPrinciples & The Role

FirstPrinciples is a Tech Holding company with a Venture Studio as part of its holdings. One part of the Venture Studio business at FirstPrinciples is about working with large enterprises on long-term digital transformation initiatives within their organization. The position that we are currently hiring for involves a multi-million dollar digital transformation initiatives for one of the largest Luxury Home Builders in the United States. Our scope involves working as expert consultants to advice and execute on upgrading the IT & Tech different internal and stakeholder facing systems within their organization. We are working on both web and mobile platforms. 

Who is This For

This is for an experienced Product Owner/Manager who is looking to take their career to the next stage by working on a large scale initiative that will challenge and extend their current capacities.

At FirstPrinciples, we truly act as a Tech Strategic Consultant along with having the operational capacity to implement the suggested recommendations. This role is for someone who is able to provide recommendations to the client while having the ownership of the end deliverables. While we have technical leaders also staffed within this partnership, we are looking for someone who can talk the talk with senior engineers and tech architects and understand their recommendations and its implications. 

Requirements

• One of the following certifications (PRINCE2, CSP, CAPM, CBAP (BABOK), Agile, CSP, CSPO, PMPO)
• Experience in independently managing, End-to-End Business Analysis, Product Analysis, Project Management for complex IT Projects and Products / Apps
• Working with Client to understand provide Consulting or Business Solutions, Problem Solving Approach and Skills, Strong Analytical Skills, should be able to read between the lines
• Managing scope via release management and planning and creating User-Stories, Running Sprints Cycle and Experience working with a team of 15-20 resources
• Requirements Gathering, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Management, Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Matrix (RTMs)
• Experience in Developing Low-Level and High-Level Prototyping using Wireframes tools (using any of the latest wireframing tools, such as JustInMind, Adobe XD, MockFlow, etc)
• Ownership of the Product Backlog & Deliverables and developing the User Stories & Release Planning
• Experience in Writing and Maintaining Business Requirement Documents (BRD) or PRDs and Functional Specification Document (FSD), Software Requirements Specification (SRS)
• Should have experience in creating Project Budgeting, Creating Efforts Estimations (EE), Presentation Decks, and Clean Documentation 
• Experience in Writing Test Cases and Managing UAT and Deployment 
• Analysis: GAP, Fish-bone Analysis, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), MoSCOW
• Experience in Consulting clients on Problem Statements V/s Solution Building based on AS-IS and TO-BE
• Experience converting Business Cases to Technology case and Building Products from scratch thus Translating Business Requirements into Software Requirement Specifications
• Interacting with the Technical team to ensure Delivery and Implementation of the Software Solution/Projects
• Client Relationship Management, Excellent at English Speaking, and Written Communication
• Understanding of Change Management, Risk Management and Project Management

Management Skills

1. Excellent Written and Oral Communication Skills and Etiquettes
2. Excellent Presentation Skills 
3. Experience in working with Onshore and Offshore Teams and Experience handling Cross-Functional Projects, Resources and Clients
4. Experience dealing with Pressure and Meeting strict Project Deadlines
5. Leadership and Motivational Skills to ensure the Work is being done by the Resources on time and within the specified budget
6. Conflict and Resolution Management
7. Prior experience in operations management - good to have 
8. Experience working with US Clients

TechStack & Platform

1. MEAN Stack (Web)
2. Native iOS & Android (Mobile)
3. AWS
   
   
   

• Analyze, plan and develop requirements and standards in reference to the product pipeline.
• Create and manage the product plan for new tech integrations with the third-party vendors.
• Manage the current integrations with the third-party vendors for ongoing changes & requirements.
• Determine and define clear deliverables for the team members. Assign and oversee the daily tasks of technical personnel while ensuring the team is actively working toward established product milestones.
• Hold daily scrum team meetings to determine progress and address any questions or challenges regarding projects
• Establish and implement training processes and strategies for all technical personnel
• Ensure high test coverage and low post release issues through effective product planning.
• Prepare progress reports for senior management.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Project Management or related technical field required
• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
• Experience mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent in the technology department
• Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality
• Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacle

We are looking for a passionate PMO Lead to be part of Enterprise PMO which responsible for the entire organization support function on compliance , adherence and Governance of Standards, Operations, Policies and Procedures. We are looking for very dynamic and energetic PMO Lead to drive the delivery governance and excellence  as per Business Objectives.  Looking of people with high level accountability and ownership to drive the things for very fast growing start-up services company in India.

The ideal candidate for this position will have at least 8
years of program management office (PMO)  with an ability to think tactically as well as strategically while leading cross functional teams in a matrixed environment. He is single point of contact for Delivery PMO and Process Governance. The primary goal of this candidate is to achieve benefits from standardizing and following project management policies, processes, and methods to be leveraged by multiple project owners. The candidate should have the ability to provide a decision support information for stakeholders (including executives) to make appropriate decisions. The candidate should also could underpin the project delivery mechanisms ensuring that all business change in an organization is managed in a controlled way.

Responsibilities:

• Transparency: providing information with a single source of the truth. Information should be relevant and accurate to support effective decision-making by stakeholders (including senior management).
• Reusability: stopping project teams from reinventing the wheel by being a central point for lessons learned templates and best practice.
• Delivery : making it easy for project teams to do their jobs by reducing bureaucracy, mentoring and process compliance. This includes the better coordination between two of delivery teams (One time Implementation and Managed Services) and other cross functional teams for SOP compliance and adherence.
• Governance: ensuring that communication to different stakeholders (including senior management) & decisions are taken by the right people , based on the right information presented. The governance role can also include audit or peer reviews, developing project and program structures, Standard Operating Procedures and ensuring accountability including of Information Security Management System as per ISO standards.
• Traceability: providing the function for managing documentation, project history and organizational knowledge.

• Create, Maintain and Own the PMO Delivery and Process Governance Metrics which includes Project Financials, Task and Ticket Metrics, Process KPI, Process Improvements, Delivery Governance and Excellence

Skills

• Gathering data about project progress and producing reports
• Developing standards and processes
• Encouraging (or enforcing where necessary) the use of those standards and processes
• Delivering training and mentoring Delivery and Process Governance PMO members and lead the team.
• Managing dependencies across multiple projects across delivery team

• MBA in Project/Operations/Systems/MIS or MCA Or equivalent
• 8-12 years’ experience in Service Desk/PMO environment, in a fast-paced though structured environment
• Strong Process and Agile Project Methodologies knowledge for managing multiple projects
• Superior verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Reporting on financial information such as Project Profitability, Claims and Invoicing
• Experience in working with agile lifecycle and/or tracking and process management tools, e.g. Zoho Projects & Desk or JIRA
• Identify and analyze opportunities and make tactical/strategic recommendations
• Hands on project management approach that includes a proven track record of project/program execution
• Need to have good understanding Competencies (AWS) and Industry specific foundations (ISMS, ISO 27001, GDPR) 
• Ability to quickly switch tasks, multi-task, be highly organized and detail oriented. 
• Ability to adapt communication style to effectively work with multiple levels within an organization 
• Experience preparing high visibility, executive level presentation materials 

• Define best strategies for product development 
• Product road maps 
• Wireframing 
• should have 15 plus years exp