Project Manager - Tech

• Develop product vision and key-value props for owned areas (strategy & roadmap). Drive alignment and excitement, aligning priorities and executing plans. Lead product development by collaborating with cross-functional teams of engineers, designers, business development managers, marketers, and other product leads.
• Manage all aspects of the product lifecycle, including problem definition, product strategy/roadmap, roadmap execution, customer needs, designs, product requirement documents
• Ensure accountability with Engineering (Internal/Vendor) on strict adherence to timelines & processes.
• Lead connection of technical and business worlds by breaking down complex problems into a roadmap and steps that drive product development.
• Understand markets, competition, and products in-depth to create clarity and drive the right set of requirements and specifications.
• Anticipate customers’ needs and market opportunities to drive improvements. Show empathy for customers, be sensitive to their needs and drive the feature team to deliver a great customer experience. Research and user test prototypes to maximise user satisfaction and performance
• Develop, cultivate and share thought leadership in emerging and trending technology areas.
• Define success criteria and performance metrics and drive telemetry requirements to measure results. Define, monitor, and analyse metrics for launched products and feed feedback into the product development process.
• An obsession with technology - pro-activeness in exploring and understanding the potential of technology and how to convert it to solve innate consumer needs
• Good in data-driven analytical skills and able to operate with partial information and ambiguity.
• Design thinking (UIUX), user empathy and deep understanding of Indian customers

Experience & Skills:
Required:

• 4 to 8 years experience, including product experience, preferably in a fast-paced B2C internet/e-commerce/Edtech company
• B- Tech and MBA or equivalent experience (or equivalent industry experience)

Preferred:

• Track record of exhibiting technical depth and quick ramp-up on new products and technologies
• Ability to assume end-to-end ownership of large features and initiatives
• Proficiency in end-to-end innovation, planning, organizing, and executing.
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Self-motivated, can-do attitude and great at dealing with ambiguity
• Experience collaborating and communicating with cross-functional teams
• Experience in identifying, analysing and interpreting data to make data-led product decisions
• Understanding of capturing user insights to create exceptional user experiences
• Excellent focus on attention to detail, with quantitative skills
• Experience in building & leading high-performance teams
• UI/UX skills with an ability to get the best out of designers and recognize great design

Sizzle is an exciting new startup in the world of gaming. At Sizzle, we’re building AI to automatically create highlights of gaming streamers and esports tournaments. 

For this role, we're looking for someone that loves to play and watch games, and is eager to roll up their sleeves and build up a new gaming platform. Specifically, we’re looking for a technical program manager - someone that can drive timelines, manage dependencies and get things done. You will work closely with the founders and the engineering team to iterate and launch new products and features. You will constantly report on status and maintain a dashboard across product, engineering, and user behavior. 

You will:

• Be responsible for speedy and timely shipping of all products and features
• Work closely with front end engineers, product managers, and UI/UX teams to understand the product requirements in detail, and map them out to delivery timeframes
• Work closely with backend engineers to understand and map deployment timeframes and integration into pipelines
• Manage the timeline and delivery of numerous A/B tests on the website design, layout, color scheme, button placement, images/videos, and other objects to optimize time on site and conversion
• Keep track of all dependencies between projects and engineers
• Track all projects and tasks across all engineers and address any delays.  Ensure tight coordination with management.

 

You should have the following qualities:

• Strong track record of successful delivery of complex projects and product launches
• 2+ years of software development; 2+ years of program management
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Deep understanding of AI model development and deployment
• Excited about working in a fast-changing startup environment
• Willingness to learn rapidly on the job, try different things, and deliver results
• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science or related field
• Ideally a gamer or someone interested in watching gaming content online

 

Skills:

Technical program management, ML algorithms, Tensorflow, AWS, Python

 

Work Experience:  3 years to 10 years

Managing multiple development projects concurrently.
 Must have good hands on experience as a developer in any prog language.
Experience in any of our service offerings such as BI/AI/ML/QA/Microsoft Tech/Devops/UI/UX etc
Must have worked in US/Europe/ Australia etc
 CSM/PSM Certification is mandatory
 Developing and managing end-to-end project plans.
 Ensure on-time delivery of projects.
 Providing hands-on project management during analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and post implementation phases.
 Assist with resource forecasting, delivery and change management of projects.
 Assists with internal process improvements.
 Interfacing with Business development for project requirements and scope.
 Conduct project management duties in accordance with Agile/ Scrum methods; waterfall, hybrid and best practices.
 Provide day-to-day interaction with clients and quality assurance for projects.
 Ensure milestones are achieved on-time, on-budget and in scope.
 Developing and monitoring risk and contingency plans.
 Additional duties as assigned.
 Must have excellent interpersonal skills in communications, client relations, people management and negotiation.

What you’ll do

About the Role

- Should have worked independently on Planning of varied types of Projects.

- Capable of Planning & Scheduling various construction activities, ability to create and

communicate WBS (Work breakdown structure)

- Should have in-depth knowledge of planning solutions like MS Project & Primavera

Software.

- Leading and coordinating operational planning factors for clients to ensure alignment

between project plans and operational plans.

- Participating in the management and the evolution of the planning module: templates,

processes, tools.

- Develop the planning of each project belonging to the Powerplay portfolio, for both research

& development, based on the strategy/tactic discussed by the project team and on

governance decisions, including prioritization

- Provide guidance on project planning optimization for Powerplay customers

 

- Ensure project planning variance analysis on a monthly/quarterly basis for multiple clients

vis-a-bis powerplay solutions.

- Ensure consistency and high-quality production of data on the whole project plan to support

portfolio management.

- Capacity to analyze and synthesize data/information.

- Ability to understand databases/formats/BoQs/Plans and to quickly acquire proficiency with

computer systems and new applications.

- Solid communication skills, written and oral. - Attention to detail, rigorous.

- Adaptability in a highly changeable environment.

 

We've Got Awesome Perks!

We always offer a competitive salary along with ESOPs

We have Sodexo of 8K per month to take care of you and its on top of your CTC.

Medical Insurance for you and your family, worth 7 Lakhs.

We don't track how many leaves in a month or in a year you take. Whenever you feel like

taking a break, please go ahead and take it. Please do not forget to leave a note on Slack

but that does not mean you are seeking approval from anyone in the Org.

We are looking for a Technical Project Manager to oversee the successful execution of projects which involve deep integrations of various systems. This TPM should be able to identify the complete requirements of all involved stakeholders and identify the technical solution with a clear breakdown of tasks required for successful completion of the project.

 

Responsibilities:

• Create clear requirement documents for both new projects and changes on existing technical projects
• Identify business risks and points of failure in ongoing projects
• Plan and manage releases with all the system providers
• Troubleshoot any system failures on current projects

 

Requirements:

• Candidate must be from IIT.
• Candidate must have knowledge on Agile and Scrum.
• 4+ Years of total experience with atleast 2+ years in project management
• Understanding of data pipelines.
• Prior experience or knowledge on IT/Telephony Systems
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to multitask - excellent planning and time management skills
• Excellent leadership abilities.

Digital & IT Project Manager 

• 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.

· Thoroughly understand the customer ’s business and technical needs
· Acting as primary interface to client business units during all phases of
the project
· Perform project kick-off meetings with customers and delivery
resources
· Identify scope, create project plan, manage, monitor and control
multiple externally facing customer implementations of our software.
Manage the project budget, team resources, communications, and
project plans.
· Review and update various project documentation, including different
tools and templates
· Ensure that customers successfully migrate to the Companies solution
in the most optimal way, with an effective transition to support upon
project close.
· Monitor and report on project progress, problems and recommended
solutions to the customer
· Identify and resolve risks and issues in a timely manner. Escalate
concerns to the project team and senior management when appropriate.
· Report on deployments, schedules, budgets and revenue using
internal methods.
· Foster continued growth of the team’s project management
capabilities, improving knowledge and experience within the PMO.
· Successfully manages several competing priorities.
· Contribute to the overall goals and objectives of the Project
Management Ofce
· Creating project plan, identifying scope, goals, deliverables, timelines
and required resources
· Managing the day-to-day implementation of operational project
aspects, dening project tasks and resource allocation
· Supporting customers in migration from current to future state in the
most optimal way
· Updating and tracking project timelines and deliverables
· Providing direction and support to the implementation team and
reviewing deliverables prepared by the team
· Managing project issues and dependencies
· Provide coaching, mentoring and support to less experienced project
managers
· Establish processes and mitigating strategies for managing issues and
risks across project and associated projects, including escalation
processes.
Required Experience and Skills:
PMP or Prince II designation an asset
· Companies experience an asset
· Previous experience with real time retail and delivery systems is a plus
· Previous knowledge of IoT based solutions is a plus
· Experience with relational databases and data model concepts (data
mining, data analysis)
· Experience working in a production environment
· Solid understanding of systems design
· Great attitude and work ethic
· Strong leadership and relationship building capabilities, with ability to
negotiate with and inuence others to drive successful project outcomes
· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
· Attention to detail and a passion to achieve quality outcomes
· Self starter with the ability to take on new challenges
· Quick learner with strong analytical and problem solving skills
· Ability to self manage, and monitor and track key performance
indicators
Other Qualications
Solid understanding of key program and project management and communications tools, such as Microsoft Project, Microsoft Word,
Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint
What skills, experience and qualications do I need?

+ Masters or Bachelors degree.
+ 12+ years' experience in one or more of the following areas: Project
management and delivery of complex projects
+ 5+ years of people management experience.

Roles and Responsibilities :- Analyze all projects, identify all risk and prepare risk mitigation strategies, manage all resources efficiently and assist the project team to resolve all requests from project members.- Ensuring that all projects are delivered on-time, within the scope and within budget, bringing the planned impact (ROI).- Amazingly great in getting last mile execution done.- Coordinates cross-functional teams through meetings and progress measurement activity which bring distinct, specific projects to completion both on time and within budget.- Develop and deliver progress reports, requirements documentation and presentations.- Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools, and techniques- Effectively communicate project expectations to project team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion- Working with CTO/Product Owner to set, improvise and define best practices for development and champion their adoption.- Perform well in uncertainties and collaborate and work with unclear interfaces to other teams in our fast-paced environment.- Smooth collaboration inter and intra-team. Being Accountable for all cross-team activities.Desired Skills and Experience :- 5+ years of background with understanding or hands-on experience in product software development, web technologies or quality assurance also have worked with updated technologies and new stacks.- 8+ years direct work experience in a project management capacity, including all aspects of process development and execution,, preferably in a product company or startup environment.- Strong project management skills with proven ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.- Experience with Agile methodologies. PMP is a plus.- Strong analytical & analyst thinking- Effective at acquiring an understanding of a problem or situation, and developing an approach to interacting with the situation.- Applying standards - Effective in the application of relevant industry and process standards to all tasks undertaken.- Aggressive & target oriented with a flair for building relationships- Excellent personal. People & communication skills- Excellent English writing skills, strong vocabulary, good comprehension skills- Experience in organization-wide initiatives and change management.- Ability to make quick decisions in high-pressure environments with limited information.

• Minimum 10 years of project management experience within a project based IT environment, with a good experience to industry standard Project Management and Development Life Cycles, Agile methodologies (SAFE, Scrum, Lean, etc. – previous experience as a Scrum Master is highly desired), Change implementation planning and management, Systems Development Management, PM tools (will be good if knowledgeable on Planview, MS Project, etc.), Application Support & Business Analysis, People Management. • Key Skills: Excellent stakeholder management up to VP level; Business communication; Strong influencer; Strong vendor management skills; Strong Planning • Experience on delivering in large companies; matrix organization (with multiple disciplines e.g. Architects, technical designers, application development, test teams); a multi-cultural environment; On-shore/ Off-shore leadership of teams • Experience on vendor/partner management of large complex vendors (e.g. SAP, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle) • Experience on delivering complex integration projects involving multiple (internal and external) suppliers and technologies • Beneficial would be previous experience with cloud based solutions • Domain: Airline, IT Infrastructure, Customer Experience