IT Project Manager - Associate

The Technical Project Manager is responsible for managing projects to make sure the proposed plan adheres to the timeline, budget, and scope. Their duties include planning projects in detail, setting schedules for all stakeholders, and executing each step of the project for our proprietary product, with some of the World’s biggest brands across the BFSI domain. The role is cross-functional and requires the individual to own and push through projects that touch upon business, operations, technology, marketing, and client experience. 

• 5-7 years of experience in technical project management.

• Professional Project Management Certification from accredited intuition is mandatory.

• Proven experience overseeing all elements of the project/product lifecycle.

• Working knowledge of Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

• Prior experience in Fintech, Blockchain, and/or BFSI domain will be an added advantage.

• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies, and methods.

• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department team.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to define project requirements and scope.

The Role

Provides project leadership to team on small to medium-sized projects in areas such as product development, research, process development and organizational development. Work collaboratively with Project Management Leader to run the projects smoothly and Keeps management and stakeholders informed of schedules, priorities, and problems. Prepares and executes translation projects. Does not typically have management responsibilities such as hiring, performance appraisals, and pay reviews; however, may assist with such decisions and activities.

• Leads project team to ensure that projects are completed on time and according to requirements.
• Continuously monitors progress and risks and promptly acts to resolve issues, escalating if needed.
• Facilitates communication upward and across project teams including project status, risks, justifications for variances.
• Serves as a focal point for other departments on project status or other project information.
• Develops, maintains and communicates Project Plans and executes projects according to the developed plans.
• Performs Internationalization and translation project intakes and coordinates findings with development teams.
• Performs technical translation project preparations, project execution and translation deliveries.
• Assigns project team and/or ensures that the project team assigned has skills and qualifications needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in business, software engineering or computer science, or equivalent.
• Overall 5 - 7 Years of experience in Project management.
• Required 2-5 years of technical experience in software development and/or software project management and/or translation project management.
• Ability to prioritize projects and activities to ensure completion of projects on time and within budget.
• Good management skills with knowledge of software translation processes and their interdependence.
• Good knowledge of translation processes like technical preparation, translation execution, QA.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, decision making and communications skills.
• Excellent skills in presentation/spreadsheet/collaboration software.  
• Familiar with Project Management tools.
• Excellent English skills, verbal and written. Fluent in at least one other language.

As a Salesforce Product Owner, you will lead the product intake, backlog prioritization, strategy, and roadmap of the Salesforce platform. Furthermore, you will lead the team with discovery to create a development-ready story to be handed off to the development team. The company is looking for a candidate with Salesforce and Agile framework experience.

• The role requires strong leadership across multiple teams and departments, the ability to communicate with influence, and a technical aptitude
• The ideal candidate will have proven Salesforce product knowledge as well as the ability and experience to demonstrate how they have improved efficiencies in product management using their product expertise.

The Product Owner will work with business groups:

• To understand demand
• Collaborate with the business to develop detailed requirements
• High-level design and technical architecture
• They will also lead many of the Agile ceremonies and will ensure the team meets its goals on time and within budget.
• Managing integration across the platform is also a key role

This role is a strategic, senior-level individual contributor who will own a portfolio of products/initiatives as well; including:

• Owning reporting and analytics on product work,
• Establishing and maintaining metrics to measure the performance of work,
• Creating and sustaining relationships with other organizations (IT, industry teams, etc.),
• Facilitating working sessions/steering committees to drive performance and
• Communicating directly with Senior Leaders from different areas of the organization.

The position also serves:

• To define scope and benefits
• Create user stories
• Develop a roadmap
• Track budget performance
• Validate IT related design and development work
• Partner with the business to ensure end-user acceptance testing
• Monitor an initiative post-launch to ensure benefit realization.

Additional job duties/responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Identify and ability to negotiate with Vendors for IT Sub-contracting
• Working closely with key stakeholders and internal partners throughout the organization to gather requirements
• Creating, maintaining, and prioritizing the product backlog according to business value for the life of the project
• Developing & conveying the vision of what is to be built
• Acting as the key product feature decision-maker., maximizing the value of the product
• Communication of product backlog priorities
• Handoff of development-ready stories to the development team
• Assisting with the elaboration of epics, themes, and features into user stories that are small enough, or granular enough, to be achieved in a single sprint
• Decisions on release dates and content
• Participating in daily scrum, as needed
• Participating in sprint planning meetings, reveals, and retrospectives – inspecting the product progress at the end of every sprint to accept or reject the work that has been done by the development team
• Acting as the voice of the team, communicating status to stakeholders and internal partners

Basic Qualifications

• Four year Bachelor’s degree preferably in marketing, computer science, information systems, engineering, or related field
• 5+ years experience as a product owner
• 5+ years experience leading a technical team while simultaneously managing multiple projects
• 3+ years experience with the Agile methodology

Top candidates will also have:

• Salesforce development experience
• Salesforce Sales & Service Cloud experience
• Demonstrated ability to communicate to ensure a team’s success
• Strong accountability planning/organization and teamwork
• Highly developed interpersonal skills to deal with sensitive, emotional or potentially controversial situations.
• Experience managing projects using Agile software tools such as JIRA, Team Services, Rally
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle
• Background in Information Technology

The Games Lead will work with a cross-disciplinary team to manage the development process on a new, unannounced FPS shooter game.

This person will work primarily with engineering and QA to support and facilitate the on-time and on-budget delivery of our game.

Responsibilities

• Manage hybrid Scrum-based development process using different tools such as Clickup.com, Asana, JIRA, spreadsheets, Miro, and other tools used to manage teams and processes.
• Work with engineering in planning and development oversight: manage daily check-ins, track progress, and lead end-of-sprint retros.
• Ensure we are getting the most out of engineering, work closely with design to ensure on-target implementation, and track against the schedule to keep on time and on budget.
• Ensure that we are utilizing the most effective development processes possible.
• Create reports that quantitatively track our progress every week and highlight progress and areas for improvement.
• Coordinate QA and support for maximal efficiency and effectiveness.
• Own the product roadmap, development schedule, and overall project P&L.
• Ensure we approach development focused on a key risks-based approach working closely with all disciplinary leads and the CEO.

Qualifications

• Prior lead PM or producer role on at least 1 successful F2P mobile title full lifecycle.
• Experience working on at least 3 mobile game titles, full lifecycle.
• Expert knowledge of all major development processes: You should know the whys (why are we doing things in specific ways?) and not just the actions/motions of the practices.
• Expert knowledge of all major PM tools (Asana, JIRA, and Monday at the minimum).
• Excellent leader and motivator of teams.
• World-class problem solver.
• Appropriate alignment with our company’s Values.
• Ability to think outside of process (when necessary).
• Willingness to abandon politics and bullshit and instead focus on problems & solutions and the delivery of as high quality of a product as our team can possibly create.
• An extremely hard working and get it done work attitude.

• Manage each project’s scope and timeline
• Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups
• Coach team members in Agile frameworks
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
• Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders)
• Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
• Help teams implement changes effectively
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
• Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
• Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it

• Experience in a scrum master role
• Familiarity with software development
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as the definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
• Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks (Crystal, XP, etc.)
• Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
• Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
• Outstanding organizational skills
• Degree in Computer Science, Business or similar field
• Scrum Master certification is a plus