Project Manager

Project Manager cum Product manager job responsibilities: -

• Define specifications and business requirements.
• Create User Stories/Acceptance criteria.
• Work with all the stakeholders to understand the pain areas and needs. Identify opportunities to address pain points and provide a seamless experience for end users.
• Closely work with the technology team and other stakeholders to communicate the requirements and develop features.
• Perform quality assurance; make sure the newly developed solutions are working as per the acceptance criteria.
• Perform RCA and identify solutions for customer complaints and issues.
• Constantly be on the lookout for ways to improve, discover issues and deliver the highest value to the customer.
• Research and come up with Innovative ideas to improve the application and customer experience.
• Competition landscape tracking. Analyze leading market players and competitors to gain insights and implement innovative solutions to gain a competitive advantage over other apps.

• Provide technology strategy planning
•  Integrate information technologies into the company for optimal effectiveness
•  Understand current and future business goals and ongoing IT issues to ensure business success
•  Develop a renewal and upgrade schedule for company software programs
• The candidate will be responsible to start and complete projects on a scheduled basis, inclined to maintain highest standard of quality.
• Analyzing scope of work, project sequencing, resource planning, time estimation, scheduling, cost estimation, risk analysis are a set of responsibilities.
• Monitor project performance and take proactive action to ensure projects are adhering to timelines set.

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.

Role & Responsibilities

• Understand project specifications and develop work planning schedule for projects.

• Prepare cash flow timeline for various projects.

• Generate Daily, Weekly, Monthly Progress Reports.

• Keep a track of time overrun and cost overrun.

• Keep a track of the project and flag short falls.

• Prepare plan for the Execution team.

• Coordination with site team to ensure smooth running of the project.

• Prepare micro plan.

• Preparation of Site Logistic Plan.

• Preparation of Master project Schedule

• Preparation of Cash flow.

• Resource Planning (Man, Material, Machinery)

• Schedule Tracking

• Preparing MIS Reports

• Preparing Delay Analysis, Hindrance report.

• Should be proficient in using Primavera(P6) & MS Project software.

• Should have good working knowledge of design, procurement and construction/ field services workflow processes.

• Should have the ability to work independently in a multidisciplinary team environment.

• Experience in Pro-Services Cost Controls & Monitoring would be an added advantage.

Requirement

• Candidates working in the construction industry are preferred.
• 4-5 years of relevant experience.
• E. / B.Tech Civil.

A Technical Delivery Manager/Project Manager is required to join the team that will be delivering a large-scale business initiative.

The role is accountable for the technical delivery of a large-scale technical transformation project focusing on upgrading the network fabric of our key data centres. Delivery teams are located in various locations around the globe. 

Specific Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

• Technology delivery – lead the delivery across all technology teams in the workstream throughout the end to end delivery chain
• Planning - Accountable for all technology planning activities, including working closely with Workstream Lead to ensure technology plans are fully and correctly reflected in overall workstream plans and roadmaps
• Dependency management - Ensures all impacts of dependencies are addressed in the overall project plan. Effectively work across the organization to ensure all dependent teams are aligned with the project plans and schedules
• Risk and Issue Management – Ability to proactively manage risk and issues for the workstream in a timely manner and have the confidence to make decisions to mitigate or resolve when required. Work closely with workstream lead to ensure RAIDS are fully documented, mitigated and escalated as required.
• Leadership – Lead and work closely with all members of the team, including business analysts, architects, QA and development management to ensure all aspects from intake, requirements, design and testing are fit for purpose and delivered in a timely manner for planning and execution
• Team performance - Work closely with the Scrum Masters and Vendor management (where required) and QA to ensure the delivery performance of the teams throughout execution and identify opportunities to optimize to improve timeliness, throughput and quality.
• Problem solving and decision making – sound judgment at a senior management level using assertiveness and influencing skills to ensure items are discussed and decisions made and agreed in a timely manner
• Governance – Manage any workstream technology team governance and adhere to the overall programme governance to ensure all stakeholders and team members are aligned and effective in delivery
• Reporting – Ensure reporting is provided as required on a regular basis against roadmap, plans and any performance KPI’s and OKR’s for your teams
• Communication - Working closely and collaboratively with the Project management office to identify and manage all stakeholders, providing visibility and transparency
• Financial Management and Project Accounting – Providing the critical data required for the project management function to monitor and track financial health, analysing resource requirements across multiple projects or across programmes to meet strategic goals

Essential Skills/Experience Required:

• Experience in running scaled agile teams
• Previous experience of working in a large scale, Top Tier Investment Bank or for a wider Financial Services Organisation
• Experience of setting up and working on a Greenfield Programme of work
• Proven experience in delivering large-scale technical programmes in a hands-on capacity
• A software delivery background would be highly beneficial due to the technical nature of the deliverables
• Extensive stakeholder management experience up to senior level, alongside the management of external vendor relationships
• Experience of working in a complex, high-paced environment with a global team
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Key Stakeholders

• Workstream Lead
• PMO
• Scrum Masters/Scrum of Scrums
• Other Delivery Managers for dependencies
• Development leads
• QA Lead
• Product Owners
• Business Sponsors
• Lead BA
• Lead Solutions architects
• Service (Release to BAU)

Job Description

Project Manager| Bangalore

Being a Project Manager is like being an artist, you have many different colored processes combining into a brilliant work of art. Tell us, can you help us build a masterpiece?

Look no further, this role is perfect for you!

A Project Manager is someone who has innate vision and caliber to give proper directions , to empower and motivate people to attain success, and to unite others towards a common purpose. Project managers are responsible for planning and overseeing projects to ensure they are completed in a timely fashion and within budget while making sure the work gets done efficiently and satisfactorily. For the role, we are looking for candidates who can plan and designate project resources, prepare budgets, monitor progress, and keep stakeholders informed the entire way.

• Natural creativity:

The best project managers are creative visionaries, people who are capable of stepping back, seeing the big picture, and coming up with new ways of approaching challenges, and making positive changes to how the company is managed and marketed.

• Not a CAVEr: 

You are a person that people like to be around. You are not a CAVE (Constantly Against Virtually Everything) personality.

• Say no to HiPPO: 

At Searce, we want people who value everyone’s opinions & perspectives. We don’t want them to get overpowered by HiPPO (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion)

1. Establish and implement training processes and strategies for all technical personnel. 
2. Analyze, plan and develop requirements and standards in reference to scheduled projects. 
3. Assign and oversee the daily tasks of technical personnel while ensuring all subordinates are actively working toward established milestones. 
4. Hold regular technical team meetings to determine progress and address any questions or challenges regarding projects. 
5. Determine and define clear deliverables, roles, and responsibilities for team members required for specific projects or initiatives. 
6. Research and evaluate hardware and software technology options and weigh the cost/benefit analysis when making large purchases on behalf of the company. 
7. Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving. 
8. Update and maintain all production technologies ensuring proper maintenance and installation. 
9. Needs to forecast the numbers of deliverables possible in an iteration, which is based on evidence and reliable source. 
10. Should be a good coach in Agile practices. Should be able to coach individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. But there is no way to locate you otherwise. So we might look for at least a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Computer Science).

1.  Or else, you should be programming from 12. For us, the latter is better as it shows you have a programming mindset. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. :) 
2. 8-10 years of relevant experience, preferably in a similar industry. 
3. Professional Project Management Certification from accredited institutions is preferred.
4. Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality and managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills. 
5. Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others. 
6. Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams.

Are you the one? Quick Fit test:

1. Love for the cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friends ended up doing the comical  ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing 
2. Passion for sales: When was the last time you went to a remote gas station while on vacation and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies? 

1. Compassion for customers: Your listening skills are impeccable, but so are your speaking skills. And when you speak, you take command of the entire room! 

1. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on the cloud?’

Searce means ‘a fine sieve’ & indicates ‘to refine, to analyze, to improve’. It signifies our way of working: To improve to the finest degree of excellence, ‘solving for better’ every time. Searcians are passionate improvers & solvers who love to question the status quo.

The primary purpose of all of us, at Searce, is driving intelligent, impactful & futuristic business outcomes using new-age technology. This purpose is driven passionately by HAPPIER people who aim to become better, every day.

Searce is a modern tech consulting firm that empowers clients to futurify their businesses, leveraging Cloud, AI & Analytics.

1. We are a category-defining niche’ cloud-native technology consulting company, specializing in modernizing (improve, automate & transform) the full-scope of infra, app, process & work
2. We partner with clients in their ‘beyond x’ journey to drive intelligent, impactful & futuristic business outcomes
3. We are the most preferred tech partner of choice when it comes to ‘solving for better for the new-age tech startups & digital enterprises, leading disruption in their industries
4. Our Service Offerings: We offer Advanced Cloud, Data & App Modernization, Cloud Consulting, Management & Improvement (DevOps, SysOps & Cloud Managed Services), Applied AI & Analytics services 
5. As one of the top 5 niche’ full-scope global partners for Google Cloud & a preferred partner for AWS, we are the most preferred ‘engineering-led tech company of choice when it comes to solving complex business problems

We are passionate improvers, solvers & futurists. Driven by our engineering excellence mindset, we care most about delivering intelligent, impactful & futuristic business outcomes. Searcians are motivated by continuous improvement & solving for better in everything we do.

At the core, a Searcian is self-driven to become better, every day. In the passionate pursuit of the finest degree of excellence, we drive exceptional outcomes in everything we do.

We believe that trust is the most important value. We also believe that we need to ‘earn the trust’, every time one engages with us. And earning trust for us is far more important than anything else. We aim to be the *most trusted* tech consulting partner for our clients.

We are HAPPIER at heart. Humble, Adaptable, Positive, Passionate, Innovative, Excellence focused, & Responsible. We live the https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kUnamaKXu-Qf8FpvKOHWVayEb6ehbxzUW6cJ3F3fB9U/">HAPPIER Culture Code.

Being HAPPIER.

1. Customers. Partners. Our aim is to build relationships with customers for life. And meaningfully improve the life of every customer.
2. We do what we say. We say what we do. We are uncomfortably honest and transparent. Being genuine wins trust & makes people happier.
3. Mistakes are encouraged. We make mistakes. Tons of those. Everyday. And we don’t mind apologizing to our juniors, peers, or superiors. We are no ego-doers.
4. Underpromise. Overdeliver. We work with a deep desire to go above and beyond in everything we do. Every time.

• 8+ years of experience in Product Development especially in Healthcare Domain
• Technical project managers are tasked with managing projects with top-down oversight from inception to completion
• They must also develop project plans that meet client needs
• Decent Communication Skills and quick in understanding the tasks
• Coordinate with technical team members at all stages of the project

A Technical Project Manager is responsible for providing project planning and management for established initiatives on behalf of company with all publisher partners. He/She will  ensure that projects are managed and completed to specification, within an established time frame. He/She will represent company as expert regarding technology concerns raised by partners. Individuals who work well in a collaborative environment and pay meticulous attention to detail tend to excel in the position of Technical Project Manager. Preferably have experience of working with SSP/ DSP.
 

Responsibilities
• Support Manager/Director in owning and developing strong relationships with the partners and key stakeholders at all levels
• Manage partner onboarding and implementation process including product, channel and partner activation, campaign launches, and ad-hoc projects
• Coordinate resource management and allocation and control activities across teams to ensure projects are delivered on-time and on budget
• Serve as the main point of contact for delivery and activation questions from the partner and issue resolution as needed. (i.e. communication and expectation setting, raising tickets)
• Understand and communicate relevant new products, features, and capabilities as they become available and ensure successful deployment and activation with your partners
• Lead Client Training (facilitating training programs, if required along with Directors)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 4+ years of work experience
• Understanding of adtech platforms and ideally have had hands on exposure with a DSP & SSP
• Experience with marketing campaign design, campaign management, and analysis preferred
• Diligent work ethic. Must be self-motivated and able to take the initiative to get the job done
• Collaborative mindset - able to partner with partners externally
• Strong customer facing communication skills, both written and verbal