Project Manager

Function: → Project Management

• Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Would be responsible for Program Management - Manage multiple challenging projects concurrently from initiation through execution and closure.
• Monitor project progress throughout the project life cycle, and communicate project status effectively to senior management through reports, presentations, and individual meetings.
• Build and provide direction to project teams, create and foster communication among team members
• Manage Kick- Meetings (geographical multi-vertical Fortune 1000 Global customers)
• Customer Engagement - coordinating with Internal and external stakeholders.
• Would enable Presales & Pilots for Tech Wins.
• Would support contract & SOW reviews & address prospect concerns during the sales process.
• Identify resource needs, constraints, and interdependencies.
• Capture and manage project risks and issues and associated mitigation strategies.
• Proactively engage other members and collaborate with the organization with specific subject knowledge to resolve issues or provide assistance.
• Monitor and control project budgets.
• Provide project management training, assistance, and mentoring on project management methodologies, tools, and techniques.
• Utilize analytical skills to make critical decisions and recommendations to solve project-related problems.
• Resource Planning & mentoring the internal team.
• Lead New Initiatives - Enable brainstorming sessions with the team to gather innovative approaches.

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience in project management roles and delivering multiple and complex projects.
• (Operations / Transitions / Migrations/ Supply Chain/ Procurement-S2P, P2P and S2C).
• Candidates having enterprise software background in the initial career phase and gradually moving to Project Management role.
• Experience in handling complex large projects and risk management.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Project artifacts Documentation and sign-off.
• Good at Team Management
• Excellent oral & written communication skills
• Should be proficient in client interactions.

Job Title: Project Manager 

Location: Delhi NCR

Job Description

As our project manager, your job will be to coordinate people and processes to ensure that our projects are delivered on time and produce the desired results. You will be the go-to person for

everything involving a project’s organization and timeline. One should be able to develop detailed project plans, ensuring resource availability and allocation and delivering every project on time within budget and scope.Project managers should have a background in IT skills, management, budgeting and analysis.

You should be an excellent communicator and comfortable managing multiple tasks. you also need to be a team player and have a problem-solving aptitude.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects.

• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget.

• Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring Technical Feasibility.

• Ensure resource availability and allocation.

• Develop a detailed project plan to track progress.

• Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs.

• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.

• Report and escalate to management as needed.

• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders.

• Perform risk management to minimize project risks.

• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors.

• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.

Requirements and skills:

• Great educational background, preferably in the field of IT.

• Proven working experience as a project administrator in the information technology sector.

• Solid technical background, with understanding or hands-on experience in software

development and web technologies.

• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills.

• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office

• PMP / PRINCE II certification is a plus

Xoxoday is looking for an AVP of Empuls product. Empuls is an employee engagement SaaS platform focussed on USA & EMEA markets. The Empuls product is going through a 10X to 100X growth journey and we are looking for a seasoned product professional who has experience of taking products from 10X to 100X growth journeys. This role ll report to the CTO of the Empuls product. 

As an AVP Product you will be responsible for the product roadmap, product metrics, feature details, designs and GTM, . This includes defining and prioritizing product roadmap, listening to customers, creating business requirements, driving functional requirements, driving this through development teams, and getting the go-to-market for various product features.

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• Develop business cases for each product feature to demonstrate feasibility including target pricing and margin, addressable and realizable market, SWOT analysis, RICE metrics and go to market. 
• Solve customer problems and build functional, technical, and design specifications for the solution.
• Map the user journey for various customer profiles - simplify and bring more structure and clarity to problem statements which translate into product solutions. 
• Have strong systems thinking - understanding the impact of process/technology decisions and trade-offs in order to achieve the best possible outcomes to solve the problem.
• Holistic approach covering all aspects including edge cases and future possibilities.
• Abreast with the latest Innovations happening in the Employee Experience, Employee Benefits & Workplace culture domain. Experience in the HR Tech industry will be important in this role. 
• Help define the value proposition of the product for the sales team and work closely with the sales-marketing team for GTM and SaaS revenues.

• An enthusiastic individual with 8+ years of product management function in a product or SaaS company.
• Have experience in leading product management of fast-growing products (or) major modules of fast large products (or) been an entrepreneur in the past.
• Strong desire to disrupt, re-invent, and optimize existing processes to build next-generation Enterprise solutions.
• We'll look forward to the technical skills required for a product role along with the soft skills required to manage multiple stakeholder roles.
• Candidates should have strong experience in problem solving, UI/UX, analytics, team management, customer success & sales enablement. 
• Candidates from HR Tech, rewards, and employee benefits experience will be preferred.
• Candidates from IIM, IIT, NIT, BITS, NSIT, and other premier engineering colleges will be preferred.
• Experience in managing onboarding, customer success, and support functions preferred.

Challenging opportunity, tough problems, and a very good growth path. An excellent opportunity to work with a team of highly talented young professionals. We also offer a competitive salary and a whole load of benefits to make your stay enjoyable with Xoxoday.

You will closely work with technology, design, sales and customer care teams. You will report to the CTO of Empuls. You will provide constant updates to the stakeholders of the product.

Xoxoday is a rapidly growing fintech SaaS firm that propels business growth while focusing on human motivation. Backed by Giift and Apis Partners Growth Fund, Xoxoday offers a suite of three products - Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with more than 3500 clients across 10+ countries and over 2.5 million users. Headquartered in Bengaluru, Xoxoday is a 400+ strong team with four global offices in Bangalore, San Francisco, Dublin, Singapore, Dubai.

We look forward to connecting with you. Once we review your resume, the next step will be a discovery call followed by detailed interview rounds. There will be three rounds of interviews. We will prefer candidates who are located in Bangalore and ready to work in hybrid work arrangements (partly in office, partly WFH). 

JOB OVERVIEW:

Our growing company is currently seeking an experienced Project Manager who possesses a passion for delighting customers and will work with our team of talented engineers to implement our platform. In this role, the Project Manager will be responsible for the administration within the department, planning of technology projects, managing our team of IT professionals, implementing technology security and the execution of all technology-related tasks and initiatives.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Responsible for managing scope, schedule, and deliverables, that includes applying techniques for planning, tracking, change control, and risk management.
• Responsible for managing the entire project life cycle from conceptualizing, strategic planning to execution & launch.
• Should have a strong background in creating & following project processes of Sprint planning and executing it using Jira, Git and more.
• Responsible for making sure that the projects are getting completed as per defined timeline and within estimated hours.
• Responsible for managing all project resources, including subcontractors, and for establishing an effective communication plan with the project team
• Responsible for day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the stakeholders.

REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum 4 - 5 years of Project Management experience in IT Software development domain
• SaaS application implementation experience
• Skill sets must include Project Scope Analysis, Project Planning, Time Estimation, Cost Estimation, Resource Allocation and Management, Risk Management, Conflict Management, Project Management, Team Coordination and Client Communication
• Good experience in SaaS Project Management
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge of agile development
• Hands-on experience in software development and web technologies

PREFERRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

REPORTING: This position will report to the Manager as assigned by Management.

EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full-Time

LOCATION: Remote (Pan India) & In-Office – Jaipur, India

SHIFT TIMINGS: UK Shift

Summer - 1:30pm-10:30pm IST

Winter    - 2:30pm-11:30pm IST

What you need to have:

About Peppo

https://www.peppo.co.in">Peppo is a fair food ordering utility. It helps restaurants manage both the demand and the delivery sides of their business, on the cloud.

The simplest way to think of Peppo is that it is a backend for restaurants that takes them online, not on just one channel but on all of them. App publishers that integrate with Peppo, will see every restaurant that uses Peppo and can enable food ordering through their own front-end.

On the fulfilment side, Peppo allows restaurants to plug into an aggregated delivery fleet on which it helps restaurants choose between various providers to optimise between delivery costs and performance.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Business Development Manager with first-rate system administration and cloud systems management skills to join our retail platform team. In this role, you’ll be making some of the most significant decisions for the company. You need to have strong problem solving capabilities, be a team player and have great communication skills. You also need to be goal-oriented, have the ability to understand the core architecture and take up responsibility of product deployment and scaling. You must be a highly technical, hands-on system admin with passion for devops and scaling.

We value those with an entrepreneurial spirit and those who bring experience from established organizations. You ought to be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. You must have excellent attention to detail; and you should be flexible and  comfortable to learn new technologies and systems.

The opportunity is ideal for someone early in their career who learns by doing. This is a high-exposure role and you will learn what it really looks like in the early days of a startup.

We offer a friendly, casual, collaborative working environment that is mission-driven and results-oriented. Our small office is in a great space in Bangalore. Due to the COVID situation, we are committed to having a fully remote engagement.

Responsibilities 

• Collaborate with the Tech Lead on product deployment and scaling
•  Responsible for communicating and reporting to the tech lead
•  Setup new environments as well as maintain existing ones
• Participate in technical design and architecture reviews from the deployment and scaling point of view
•  Write technical documentation
• Automate stuff
• Infrastructure as code
• Be aware of costs and skilled enough to squeeze

Skills and Requirements

We are looking at your experience not just in terms of the years you’ve clocked but the aptitude to get things done. Here’s the skills that your job would entail, so please make sure you highlight the following in any capacity you have demonstrated - professional, freelance or hobbyist.

• 2+ years of software development experience (professional, freelance or hobbyist). Github profiles matter.
• Strong proficiency in AWS products with certifications
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure as code tool like Ansible
• Understanding of tools like Gitlab, Jenkins etc required for code management and continuous delivery 
• Python or Bash scripting skills
• Experience with deployment frameworks, practices and processes
• Demonstrated skills in deploying, releasing, and maintaining highly scalable web applications
• Bonus if you know AWS CloudFormation or Terraform
• Good communication skills and ability to work independently or in a team.

Employment Type

• Full-time
• Remote/On-Site 

Our Preferred Resume Format

• Polished resume with list of projects clearly listed (with responsibilities you held)
• Links to interesting projects that you worked on (professional, freelance or hobbyist)
• Blogs written and any other public contributions you made

1. Resume evaluation: We will screen all incoming CVs and invite candidates for next round, fitting our job profile description.
2. Case study:  If you are one of the shortlisted candidates, you will be sent a case study to solve.
3. Phone screening: we will follow up with a phone screening round for better understanding of the CV, technical proficiency, experience etc.
4. F2F Round(s): The next round is a direct face-to-face discussion over a video call.

• Small team with an opportunity to have a steep learning curve. 
• Have a meaningful impact on end customers and sellers on their experience with digital tools.
• Work on redefining the e-commerce experience by building cooperatives for the micro-services era. This makes Peppo a perfect home for those looking to pursue compassionate capitalism.
• Train under a diverse and accomplished set of team leads, mentors and investors who have worked in government and big tech.
• Holistic development guaranteed as you will grow in an environment that prizes lateral thinking allowing you to supplement your core responsibilities with additional functions.
• Competitive compensation and flexibility to work from anywhere since Peppo uses the best of productivity tools.

Peppo is an equal opportunity employer. We're excited to work with talented and empathetic people no matter their race, caste, color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, physical disability, mental well-being, or age. Our code of conduct reflects the kind of company we strive to be, and we celebrate our diversity for that truly makes us create products that cater to the world.