Project Manager

• Experience – 10+yrs 
• Successfully handle Mobile application projects( iOS , Android , Phone gap) and web projects.

Responsibilities:

• Client Management & wireframe design
• Resource Management related to the client projects iOS, Android, PhoneGap developers & designers
• Project execution and reporting to management  team on daily bases.
• Project execution related SRS.
• Co-ordinate with senior management of company.
• Facilitate buy vs build decision in the organization and engage with vendor management/ sales Dept. to prepare RFI/RFP, 
• Develop Maintains and manages details project plans, Actionable items and major milestone for all the project assigned.
• Provides research and assistance to leadership in the development and design of new projects
• Manages project status and information in the form of formal briefings, project update meetings, and written, electronic, and graphic reports
• Serve as primary point-of-contact for time-sensitive and critical matters such as executive/management/supervisor escalations

Required Skills:

• Ability to collaborate with technology resources on projects given solid understanding of current internet technologies and trends
• Strong project management and delivery processes/methodology skill sets - knowledge of Agile project management methodology and PMP
• Strong attention to detail and focus on task completion is critical
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal communications skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks at the same time as well as changing priorities
• Understanding of the mobile application market and devices (phones and tablets)
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments
• Ability to create, manage, and deliver against large, interdependent project plans
• Ability to work under tight deadlines with multiple people and departments

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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.

Experience: 

6+ years of experience in project management large and medium sized engagements 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Demonstrate excellent project management skills, inspire teamwork and responsibility with team members, provide project management expertise and leadership in the execution of complex software projects. 
• Accountable and responsible for managing and reporting project schedule, cost, quality, human resources, communication, risk and procurement for the project. 
• Consistently apply the defined project management standards and methodologies defined by the organization to assigned projects. Establish project management principles, processes, and artefacts as necessary. 
• Drive appropriate organizational change influencing stakeholders as required to ensure the successful program/project execution. 

• Ensure appropriate involvement of all stakeholders on the project as necessary 
• Plan and direct schedules, monitor budget/spending, resource allocation and utilization for the project from initiation through closure.  
• Manage project schedule and budgets – Track project metrics data (e.g., completed and in-progress work, schedule and cost variances, resource health, risks and issues etc.) and other project specific information and regularly communicate it to the project stakeholders 
• Report progress and health of the project and incorporate feedback from all stakeholders 
• Manage project communications and meetings (Daily Stand-Up Meetings, Project Reviews, AdHoc Requests) 

• Proactively manage or project risks, action items, issue resolutions, key decisions and stakeholder feedback 
• Understand dependencies and organize the activities ensuring successful completion of the project  
• Communicate regularly with the project sponsor and the team 
• Proactively identify and manage risks and issues pertaining to the project. 
• Ensure project governance practices are in place to monitor and control the project 

Experience/ Qualifications 

• PMP or similar certification with good understanding of project management and methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile 
• Strong stakeholder management skills 
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) 
• Solid decision making and prioritization skills 

• Good understanding of budgeting, estimation, and project financial management 
• Experience of working in shared resources environment with teams based across different time zones 
• Knowledge of MS Project for overall project tracking, Jira for tracking agile development and SharePoint as collaboration tool 
• Bachelors degree 

Srijan is hiring for a Scrum Master/Senior Scrum Master role with a permanent WFH option.

A notice period of 30 days or less is preferred.
Remote working option available.


Roles and Responsibility:

 Backlog Maintenance

• Create and Manage Backlog
• Backlog grooming: Manage/Update “sprint-backlog” and “project-backlog” regularly after client calls and demos
• Plans forward-looking technology investigations (spikes / POC)
• After each sprint demo work with the dev team to estimate and re-estimate the backlog
• Facilitate prioritization of backlog first time;
• Facilitate prioritization of backlog during planning n+1 sprint with client
• Creating mock-ups/wireframes/Sketch images to illustrate or to detail for getting clarity from the client, and for communicating the task to the dev team
• Use JIRA for all backlog (no use of Google spreadsheets)

Daily Stand-ups

• Drive daily-stand-ups
• Ask what was done yesterday, what is the plan for today
• Ask probing questions in the stand-ups and outside of it
• Identify potential roadblocks or challenges that may come up
• Consult Group Lead and raise your concerns
• Implement advice by GL
• Ensure that the team is working towards completion of the sprint; each stand-up well did, will suggest if the velocity is enough to complete Sprint or no
• (Maintain and) Update the “information radiator board (with stickies)” for all sprints

Sprint Demos

• Run sprint demos
• Calls must be marked on the client and team’s calendar; no ambiguity in when calls happen
• Every member must be present on calls at least 2-mins before the scheduled time on the calendar; be the first to join the call as moderator
• If you are unable to join, ensure that the session is recorded; if it cannot be recorded, ensure the team has captured all feedback during the demo

Business Analysis

• Understand the business of the client and the project
• This will enable you to question business needs that clients communicate
• Validate and record agreements in stories, acceptance criteria
• Create mock-ups/wireframes/Sketch annotations to illustrate or to detail --  for getting clarity from the client; and for communicating the task to the dev team -- put these in stories in JIRA

Project Management

• The Plan -- Do -- Check -- Act (Complete control on the project)
• Create Physical boards “information radiator board (with stickies)
• Plan deliverables (JIRA/Sprint) along with the team
• Organize the Sprint, get re-estimates done,
• Plan Sprint n+1 with the client -- prepared stories for the n+1 sprint to be taken up by dev team; work with QA in
• Learn to read JIRA Burndown Charts to know if the project is on time or is there likely to be a delay
• If there is likely to be a delay, speak to the Agile Coach / Group Lead to decide the nature of communication to be sent to the client
• Release Planning - define release goals

Quality Assurance

• Detail out stories with acceptance criteria
• Ensure all stories have acceptance criteria
• Work with QA in improving quality of acceptance criteria
• Work towards zero-defect sprints
• Defect triage - accept/reject
• Support the Dev+QA team in testing yourself
• Use JIRA for all these activities
• Drive testing strategy
• Deliver stories piecemeal for testing throughout the sprint
• Validate technical architecture by asking relevant questions

Stakeholder Management

• Send out weekly Status emails to internal and external clients -- must be on SM’s calendar
• Red, Amber, Green status
• Budget consumption
• Key activities this week
• Pre-empt and document roadblocks that you/team foresee
• Raise/Flag issues to clients and work aggressively within the team/org to mitigate this
• Coach clients on agile/scrum, our model, align them on our practices, using Jira, etc

Engineering Practices

• Drive towards Unit Testing
• Drive towards Continuous Integration (CI) using Jenkins; leads to a clear release and deployment strategy/plan
• Piecemeal UAT strategy
• Drive Intrinsic quality like Code, stories written, test scenarios written
• Continuously monitor and improve them. Question people on them
• Use Jira rigorously to track stories, defects, and manage it end to end.

People, Process and Tool Coach

• Coach people to improve in their role
• Challenge and question people on the way they are working to make it better
• Run sprint-retros
• During retros listen for “cause” behind the words; by asking probing questions
• Continuously strive to improve yourself
• Handhold team on Scrum way of doing
• Strategize which tool to use for what purposes.

• 8+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
• Must have experience leading a team of around 15-20 team members in an Agile environment.
• Experience working in multi-geo or offshore environment
• JIRA experience
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Proven success in delivering projects within budget and specified timeframes, while ensuring customer satisfaction
• Proven problem-solving skills from problem assessment to solution selection
• Ability to identify alternatives and make contingency plans
• Capacity to embrace change and quickly adapt to new situations, changes in direction, and altering priorities
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Ability to handle multiple projects and assignments
• Ability to demonstrate critical thinking, providing options and recommendations relating to resolving issues, mitigating risks, and resolving escalated items.
• CSM (Certified) or PMP (Certified) Good to have

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
   
   
   

Desired Candidate Profile

• Scrum Master certification with a deep understanding of all things Agile (Scrum, Kanban, and other methodologies)
• 3+ years of multi-project management experience in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, technical (SDLC) environment
• Experience working in Web, Mobile Applications and OTT development teams in technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, IOS, Android
• Experience running A/B Tests and experiments with website teams
• Website Release Deployment/Management experience
• Deep knowledge of agile and traditional frameworks
• Extensive experience in road mapping, planning, Gantt as well as fostering iterative processes and feedback milestones in the SDLC
• Experience with AWS, GitHub and Jenkins
• Proficiency in tools: Youtrack, Microsoft Teams, Confluence, Sharepoint
• Ability to thrive in a creative and deadline-driven environment
• Ability to travel occasionally to other offices(post-covid)
• Experience with Content Management Systems