Japanese Project Manager

Job Summary:

The Chief of Staff is a versatile and dynamic role, responsible for providing comprehensive support across various functions including Marketing, Human Resources, Business Operations, and Market Research. This position demands a multi-faceted individual who can seamlessly transition between different responsibilities, contributing to the overall success and growth of the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

Marketing: Assist in the development and execution of marketing strategies and campaigns. Conduct market research to identify trends, customer preferences, and competitive intelligence. Collaborate with the marketing team to create content, manage social media, and optimize online presence.

HumanResources: Support HR initiatives including recruitment, onboarding, and performance management. Oversee HR administrative tasks, ensuring compliance with policies and procedures. Assist in employee engagement and development programs

Business Operations: Streamline and improve operational processes for increased efficiency and productivity. Assist in budgeting, financial analysis, and reporting to drive informed decision-making. Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and provide insights for business improvement

Market Research: Conduct thorough market research to identify emerging opportunities and potential risks. Analyze industry trends, customer behavior, and competitive landscapes to inform business strategies. Generate reports and insights to support strategic decision-making.

Project Management: Lead and coordinate cross-functional projects, ensuring timely and successful delivery. Allocate resources, set milestones, and track progress to achieve project objectives. Provide regular updates to the executive team on project status and outcomes.

Communication and Liaison: Serve as a key liaison between the executive team and internal/external stakeholders. Draft and review communications, presentations, and reports on behalf of the executive. Foster effective communication channels within the organization

Rejolut is one of the award-winning fastest-growing tech company which is working on leading technology like Blockchain, ML & AI, Complex mobile & web apps, IoT, etc.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing a development team and client coordination.

Roles & Responsibilities:-
• Collaborate with business and functional partners and technology leadership in defining features backlog and specifying requirements
• Taking Ownership of Delivery
• Drive technology discussion and strategy in line with business needs and company reference architecture
• Define execution plan and approach based on project scope, the expected timeline,
• Support execution team with resolution of roadblocks and inter-dependencies Partner with technical and functional teams external to the project to ensure their tasks are completed as required
• Ensure quality of deliverable is verified and matching stakeholder expectations
• Conducting daily scrum calls for smooth delivery.

Desired Candidate Profile:-

• Sprint Planning, Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups, Direct Client Interaction
• Organize and Manage Daily Scrum, Create various types of Project status reports, Manage the scrum board with various graphs, chart
• Experience in managing only Technical projects
• Excellent communication skill 

How we are different 
 We are a young and dynamic team who are obsessed with solving the business problem at scale. We are a technology agnostic company that focus more on finding the optimal solution to the business problem rather than technology.

 Why to join us
 - We provide huge learning curve. Spending 1.5-2 years with us will put you 3 years ahead in the career.
- We work only on cutting edge technology like React, React Native, Flutter, NodeJS, Python, Go, Svelte, ELM
- There are two technology Co-founder in the company who are pretty much hands-on and have earlier bult the Consumer application which is downloaded millions of time and are in leadership position in companies like Samsung, Purplle, Loyalty Rewardz.
- Get mentored by the best in the industry
- Flexible working hours
- Perks best in the industry

Responsibilities:

• Build and develop the project team to ensure maximum performance, providing purpose, direction, and motivation.
• Lead projects from requirements definition through deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations, and project implementation plans, including risk mitigation.
• Coordinated internal and external resources, ensuring projects remain within scope, schedule, and defined budgets, in collaboration with project staff from various functional departments.
• Analyse project progress and, when necessary, adapt scope, timelines, and costs to ensure that the project team adheres to project requirements.
• Establish and maintain relationships with appropriate client stakeholders, providing day-to-day contact on project status and changes.
• Establish and maintain processes to manage scope over the project lifecycle, set project quality, and performance standards, and assess and manage risk within, and across, multiple projects.
• Structure and manage integrated, multi-track project performance databases for multiple digital, print, social, broadcast, and experiential projects, with an eye on overall progress.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with outside resources including third-party vendors and researchers.
• Monitor and assign resources appropriately to streamline project efficiency and maximise deliverable outputs.
• Report project outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels as needed escalating issues as necessary based on project work plans.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or a related field.
• 4-11 years of project management and related experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification (completed).
• Proven ability to solve problems creatively.
• Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices.
• Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful.
• Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, and timeline.

What we're looking for:

We are looking for an experienced technical project manager who is expected to work with various stakeholders to provide status updates as needed, mitigate project risks, anticipate bottlenecks, quantify the impact of making tradeoffs, and balance business needs against technical constraints.

Position overview:

As part of the Searce Cloud and Software engineering Technical Project Management team, you will work closely with the Engineering teams, Cloud Architects and Delivery Managers, and a broad range of cross-functional teams to develop and manage the execution of best practices.  We will rely on your knowledge, expertise, and previous experience as a Technical Project Manager so that you can take an active role in working with the Cloud Engineering team through various stages of the project lifecycle, alignment of processes between Architecture, Service delivery management, definition and execution of new projects related to Cloud service delivery, cost management, compliance to name a few. 

Role Responsibilities: 

• Develop, maintain and scale effective Technical Project Management capability within Software / Cloud Engineering ensuring Searce meets and exceeds Availability, Performance, Security, Compliance and Cost goals in cloud service delivery  
• End to end management of cloud and data projects from enterprise customers across the globe
• Work with all key cross-functional teams including Sales, Cloud Engineering, Software engineering and business teams to convey the technical vision for Searce digital growth and contribute to the alignment of programs, projects, and processes within Searce
• Assist software engineering and solutions engineering  teams in project design and execution plans that meet or exceed defined customer requirements; assesses technology and execution risks and collaborates with stakeholders on decisions/strategy to achieve business goals
• Work with key stakeholders & management on process issues to address deficiencies impacting organization effectiveness
• Work with the project, program stakeholders to fully scope requirements
• Manage dependencies across multiple teams and initiatives
• Report progress and associated metrics
• Drive risks to mitigation

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science or related field is preferred, with a minimum of 3+ years of directly related work experience in both small and large companies with 2+ years of technical project management
• Great track record of technical project management and experience in technical specialties, methodologies, and processes
• Proven leadership in identifying and influencing the business to employ specific technologies and best‐in‐class processes; experience in Agile methodologies required
• Have a technical understanding of the challenges and issues of complex, large‐scale cloud and data migration projects
• Experience with and proven success evaluating business requirements, identifying trends, and working to build processes/best practices around project delivery
• Working knowledge of Cloud – AWS and GCP and Node, React, Python, Django. 
• ITIL V3 Foundation and PMP Certification (Not Mandatory)

This person MUST have:
 

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• Cloud architect with hands on development background.
• Build a collaborative relationship with different stakeholders
• Experience on React JS and Python Programming
• Exposure to Python/Django +  NodeJS + ReactJS
• Ensure and drive completions of all committed tasks and deliverables
• Run daily stand-ups and bring teams into an agile cadence of frequent iterations
• Increase team productivity by removing obstacles and keeping processes lean.
• Able to prioritise different tasks and communicate it to the different verticals of the organisation.
• Regularly assess risks and opportunities; understand best practices, drive for process improvements, and find new ways of operating,
• with a focus on simplification and productivity.
• Excellent written and oral business communication and people skills
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Experience:

• Min 7 year experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location:

• Remote 

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

• Document business or systems as-is/ to-be process,
• Assessing the business model or its integration with technology.
• Work closely with Product Owners and
• Business stakeholders in preparing Product Backlog items
• Prepare user stories, prepare acceptance criteria for user stories and manage backlog.
• Drive business workshops to define requirements
• Develop product backlog and elaborate functional specifications for an IT solution.
• The candidate should also be able to analyze requirements
• Model as-is and to be process and support business during testing
• For stakeholders and customers, act as a bridge between the business problems and the technology solutions.