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

So, what do you do as a project manager? You are responsible to manage key client project in direction, coordination, implementation, execute, control and completion of project, while remaining aligned with strategy, commitments and goals of the organization. Oversee all aspects of projects, set deadlines, assign responsibilities and monitor and summarize progress of project. They make sure the scope of the project is clear, reporting regularly on the progress of the project and that it is staying on the approved schedule.

The successful candidate will work directly in client location to ensure deliverables fall within the applicable scope. You will coordinate with other teams & departments to ensure all aspects of each project are compatible. Enhance department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate internal resources and Clients for the flawless execution of projects.
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope.
• Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
• Manage changes to the project scope and schedule using appropriate verification 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 Key clients.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Meet with clients to take detailed specifications and clarify requirements of each project.
• Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals
• Develop comprehensive project plans to be shared with clients as well as other staff members
• Perform other related duties as assigned
• Develop spreadsheets, diagrams and process maps to document needs.

Desirable Skills:

• Proven working experience in project management
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
• Bachelor's Degree in appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage a full workload across multiple projects.
• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and ready to learn.
• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail.
  
  

CORE Competency:

• Developing and Tracking the project
• Leadership
• Time Management
• Conflict Resolution
• Problem Solving skills
• Management skills
• Process Improvement
• Planning
• Outstanding Communication skills
• Teamwork
• Negotiation skills

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.

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

A Project Coordinator at Rubico IT will get to communicate with clients and use a highly-organized and structured approach towards coordinating with developers to create customized websites and related applications.

The Project Coordinator will require excellent time management and communication skills, as he/she collaborates with clients and internal teams to deliver results on deadlines. Project Coordinator responsibilities include working closely with the clients to prepare comprehensive action plans, including resources, timeframes, and budgets for projects. 

Required Skills

• 2+ years of experience in handling small to mid-sized IT Projects
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and soft skills to build trust and relationship with clients globally (Preferred working with US clients)
• Good knowledge of project planning, execution along with time, risk and cost management.
• Understanding of agile project management using Scrum
• Good understanding of other project management methodologies like Kanban and Waterfall
• Conceptual knowledge of web/mobile development technologies
• Good understanding of Open Source CMS (WordPress, Drupal or Magento)
• Basic to an average understanding of Servers, Hostings and DNS
• An ability to prepare and interpret flowcharts, schedules and step-by-step action plans
• Strong client-facing and teamwork skills
• Hands-on experience with project management tools (e.g. Basecamp, Jira or Trello)

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

• Identify & document the Scope of Work (SOW), objectives and any assumptions.
  
• Prepare cost estimates for manpower + materials, and ensure we are charging accurately for our projects.
  
• Develop a detailed project plan, and monitor progress using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.
  
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors.
  
• Seek opportunities for improvement and suggest new projects.
  

• Ensure availability of all the tools and resources before initiating a project.
  
• Prepare and maintain timelines for the effective tracking and completion of the project.
  
• Delegate to internal resources and vendors effectively, and track progress ensuring the project runs on schedule.
  
• Coordinate with all the internal and external stakeholders for information, approvals, resolving issues, status updates, answering queries etc. While maintaining transparent communication.

• Maintain timesheet logs for all the resources.
  
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports.
  
• Ensure standards and requirements are met through conducting quality assurance tests.
  
• Analyze and Highlight potential risks or malfunctions and act proactively to resolve issues ensuring the project stays on time and on budget.

• Excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal and consulting skills
  
• Ability to manage multiple teams and projects simultaneously
  
• Excellent organization and time management skills
  
• Ability to meet targets and deadlines.
  
• Quick thinking, problem solving skills
  
• Detail-oriented
  
• Budget management
  
• Confident, pleasant personality, ambitious, self-motivated.
  

​We offer competitive compensation and benefits.

• Contributing to design and planning of Physical infrastructure
• Performing installation of applications.
• Providing Application Operations
• Performing day-to-day Application administrations tasks
• Providing support for the transition of applications in operations
• Performing monitoring of the IT infrastructure services /application
• Contributing to onboarding of Supported Applications onto Monitoring Platform · Performing batch management & scheduling
• Operations of Application Platforms and applications
• Provision of a Provider System Responsible as a Point of contact for the Application Owner for all Operational topics.
• Operations Management
• Continuity Critical Applications across Production Lines
• Detailed project planning by participating in System Design of Applications
• Consulting for Technical Architecture on application design for the operating environment and plant ecosystem
• Design security concepts, monitoring checks, interfacing requirements, etc.
• Proposals in Definition & Provision of Tools, Performance Management, Application Robustness, Alerting, and Configuration · Perform application tests with business partners or application owners
• Providing Application Operations, Change Management, Problem Management
• Providing support for the transition of applications in operations