Project manager

We are searching for a Laravel developer to build web applications for our company. In this role, you will design and create projects using the Laravel framework and PHP, and assist the team in delivering high-quality web applications, services, and tools for our business. 

• Designing and building web applications using Laravel.
• Troubleshooting issues in the implementation and debugging of builds.
• Working with front-end and back-end developers on projects.
• Testing functionality for users and the backend.
• Ensuring that integrations run smoothly.
• Scaling projects based on client feedback.
• Recording and reporting on work done in Laravel.
• Maintaining web-based applications.

What do we require for this role?

• Able to understand project requirements and handle projects independently.
• Strong learning capability.
• Contribute to all phases of the development.
• Knowledge of PHP/CodeIgniter will be preferred.
• Basic Knowledge of JavaScript and Web Services.
• Sound knowledge of PHP, MySQL, jQuery, etc.

Selected intern's day-to-day responsibilities include:

1. Following up with leads generated to close online sales
2. Explain product features to the generated leads to close sales

Stipend structure: This is a performance-based internship. In addition to the minimum-assured stipend, you will also be paid a performance-linked incentive (₹ 200 per sale).

Responsibilities:

• Collateral Development: Create compelling marketing collateral using PowerPoint presentations that communicate our brand, products, and services.

• Market Research for Collaterals: Conduct research to gain insights into market trends, customer behavior, and competitors, with a focus on aligning marketing collaterals with our company's materials while maintaining consistency with our existing brand materials.

• Visual Design: Utilize Adobe Creative Cloud tools, Canva, and PowerPoint to design visually appealing graphics, images, and visuals for marketing materials.

• Communication: Maintain effective communication with consultants from various regions, ensuring a smooth exchange of ideas and information. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.

• Social Media: Support our social media presence and engage with our audience. This includes supporting the sharing of content, responding to messages, and monitoring social media performance.

• Stakeholder Management: Develop and nurture relationships with key stakeholders, both internal and external, to ensure alignment and collaboration on marketing initiatives.

• Administrative Tasks: Perform various administrative tasks related to marketing, including but not limited to email communication, document organization, and file management.

• Time Management: Efficiently manage your time to meet project deadlines, even in high-pressure situations. Prioritize tasks effectively to ensure smooth project execution.

• Adaptability: Be a versatile team player willing to take on various roles and responsibilities as needed. Embrace change, and proactively learn and adapt to new processes and technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Build and develop the project team to ensure maximum performance, providing purpose, direction, and motivation.
• Lead projects from requirements definition through deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations, and project implementation plans, including risk mitigation.
• Coordinated internal and external resources, ensuring projects remain within scope, schedule, and defined budgets, in collaboration with project staff from various functional departments.
• Analyse project progress and, when necessary, adapt scope, timelines, and costs to ensure that the project team adheres to project requirements.
• Establish and maintain relationships with appropriate client stakeholders, providing day-to-day contact on project status and changes.
• Establish and maintain processes to manage scope over the project lifecycle, set project quality, and performance standards, and assess and manage risk within, and across, multiple projects.
• Structure and manage integrated, multi-track project performance databases for multiple digital, print, social, broadcast, and experiential projects, with an eye on overall progress.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with outside resources including third-party vendors and researchers.
• Monitor and assign resources appropriately to streamline project efficiency and maximise deliverable outputs.
• Report project outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels as needed escalating issues as necessary based on project work plans.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or a related field.
• 4-11 years of project management and related experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification (completed).
• Proven ability to solve problems creatively.
• Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices.
• Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful.
• Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, and timeline.

• Has experience of working in a graphics environment, to a brief and delivering to deadlines with some evidence of design management capability
• Familiarity with best practices for graphics and video content on social media platforms (YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)
• Should optimize existing graphics and video content
• Use of Microsoft Office, Dropbox, and G Suite.
• Has advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (mainly InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere, and Photoshop)

Candidate Specification

• A strong portfolio of illustrations or other graphics.
• A keen eye for aesthetics and details.
• Communication skills.
• A degree in Design, Fine Arts, or a related field is a plus.
• Is self-starting, highly motivated, and hands-on
• Creativity and awareness of current design trends
• Can manage time efficiently, able to prioritize, works fast and accurately to meet tight deadlines

What you would be expected to do:

• Gather, prioritize and refine requirements while keeping team members well informed
• Create Use Cases, Flow Charts, Mock Screens, PRDs for business requirements, user requirements, functional & non-functional requirements and system requirements
• Rolling out of new products/apps/automations and resolving stakeholder queries/issues
• Automate business processes using tools like Zapier/Google Scripts, other automation tools
• Collaborate with cross-functional groups and assist in the entire product lifecycle from design to development to launch
• Responsible for testing of applications/solutions/web panels at various stages of the lifecycle
• Working with the development team/or independently on integrations (using 3rd party tools to create mobile applications)
• Travel as per company requirement to places including but not limited to Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Myanmar and Tanzania

You might be a strong candidate if you:

• The ability to structure and analyze ambiguous problems
• The ability to communicate ideas clearly through workflows, feature descriptions etc.
• Proactive and willingness to get hands dirty
• Attention to detail

What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):

• An opportunity to grow as a professional in a dynamic, fast growing, high impact industry; 
• The chance to work in an open minded, collaborative culture surrounded by enthusiastic Greenlighters who are driven by the challenge of continuously innovating and growing a smart, sustainable business with profound impact on the world 
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds 
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Greenlight Academy

Responsibilities:

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Collaborate with other team members

You’ll be a good fit if you:

• Have 1+ years of experience developing user facing features
• Have a deep understanding of basic UI/UX/design principles
• Are self-motivated and can solve problems independently
• Experience leveraging web technologies like HTML, CSS, and Javascript(ES6)
• Experience using the latest CSS layout methods such as Flexbox and Grid
• Experience with CSS preprocessors like Sass or LESS
• Knowledge and hands-on experience with Node.js ecosystem and leveraging Javascript libraries / frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue
• Experience with testing frameworks (Jest) and writing unit tests
• Competency in building responsive layouts
• Practical knowledge of performance optimization techniques
• Collaboration in a GitHub repository with many contributors and comfortable with workflows like code reviews, forking, pull requests, etc.