SAS Developer/SAS DI/BI Consultant.

Position: Project Manager

Location: Bengaluru, India (Hybrid/Remote flexibility available)

Company: PGAGI Consultancy Pvt. Ltd

About PGAGI

At PGAGI, we are building the future where human and artificial intelligence coexist to solve complex problems, accelerate innovation, and power sustainable growth. We develop and deploy advanced AI solutions across industries, making AI not just a tool but a transformational force for businesses and society.

Position Summary

PGAGI is seeking a dynamic and experienced Project Manager to lead cross-functional engineering teams and drive the successful execution of multiple AI/ML-centric projects. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with a solid background in engineering-led product/project management, especially in AI/ML product lifecycles. This role is crucial to scaling our technical operations, ensuring seamless collaboration, timely delivery, and high-impact results across initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Engineering Teams Across AI/ML Projects: Manage and mentor cross-functional teams of ML engineers, DevOps professionals, and software developers through agile delivery cycles, ensuring timely and high-quality execution of AI-focused initiatives.

• Drive Agile Project Execution: Define project scope, objectives, timelines, and deliverables using Agile/Scrum methodologies. Ensure continuous sprint planning, backlog grooming, and milestone tracking via tools like Jira or GitHub Projects.

• Manage Multiple Concurrent Projects: Oversee the full lifecycle of multiple high-priority projects—ranging from AI model development and infrastructure integration to client delivery and platform enhancements.

• Collaborate with Technical and Business Stakeholders: Act as the bridge between engineering, research, and client-facing teams, translating complex requirements into actionable tasks and product features.

• Maintain Engineering and Infrastructure Quality: Uphold rigorous engineering standards across deployments. Coordinate testing, model performance validation, version control, and CI/CD operations.

• Budget and Resource Allocation: Optimize resource distribution across teams, track project costs, and ensure effective use of cloud infrastructure and personnel to maximize project ROI.

• Risk Management & Mitigation: Identify risks proactively across technical and operational layers. Develop mitigation plans and troubleshoot issues that may impact timelines or performance.

• Monitor KPIs and Delivery Metrics: Establish and monitor performance indicators such as sprint velocity, deployment frequency, incident response times, and customer satisfaction for each release.

• Support Continuous Improvement: Foster a culture of feedback and iteration. Champion retrospectives and process reviews to continually refine development practices and workflows.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Experience: Minimum 5 years of experience as a Project Manager, with at least 2 years managing AI/ML or software engineering teams.

• Tech Expertise: Familiarity with AI/ML lifecycles, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and DevOps pipelines (Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).

• Tools: Strong experience with Jira, Confluence, and project tracking/reporting tools.

• Leadership: Proven success leading high-performing engineering teams in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal skills to interface with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Certifications (Preferred): PMP, CSM, or certifications in AI/ML project management or cloud technologies.

Why Join PGAGI?

• Lead cutting-edge AI/ML product teams building scalable, impactful solutions.

• Be part of a fast-growing, innovation-driven startup environment.

• Enjoy a collaborative, intellectually stimulating workplace with growth opportunities.

• Competitive compensation and performance-based rewards.

• Access to learning resources, mentoring, and AI/DevOps communities.

WHY JOIN QRATA

• Work with the best: Learn from leaders who have built Qrata from the ground up. Work with down-to-earth, highly experienced, and insanely ambitious colleagues.
• As the business grows, you grow: We want Qrata to be built from within. We look at you as a business leader with the potential to make an impact in the talent space for the Indian startup.
• Great Culture and Work life Balance: Wins are celebrated: We have clear and frequent processes in place for recognizing the achievements of their employees. Leadership and management style that encourages teamwork, frequent engagement, fun activities and transparent communication which is vital to creating a positive feeling in the workplace.

WHAT WE DO AND WHO WE ARE

• We started Qrata in 2016. We are a 40+ person team based out of Mumbai and Bangalore.
• We have our own platform and framework that includes pre vetting talent for accelerated hiring as well as building a composite talent profile including community references to create predictable hiring outcomes/structured learning for our talent community.
• We are building an ecosystem that connects untapped talent in India irrespective of location to realize their full potential through careers in the fastest growing start-ups around the globe from India.

WHAT WILL BE YOUR MISSION AT QRATA?

This staff member will join our diverse and passionate team, whose primary role is to ensure the digital traction needed to fuel our organization, build fierce momentum around our product through creative and effective branding, and build win-win partnerships with multiple aligned organizations. Within this team, the Content and Marketing Partner will primarily own the Communications and Digital Marketing work, while also collaborating actively on other team projects. We are looking for a passionate storyteller who can identify, curate, and amplify our impact, through stories and statistics, across various mediums.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO AT QRATA?

• Design approaches to establish and amplify Qrata’s brand presence on social channels
• Develop metrics to measure the Content and Marketing team’s reach and depth of impact
• Collaborate with design and writing teams to produce high quality content
• Provide engaging text, image and video content for social media accounts
• Be the voice between Qrata & the community, able to relay Qrata’s POV forward as well as collect actionable information from the community (+ social listening) for the organization
• Establish meaningful relationships across our communities; leverage selected influencers within the community or community leaders to trigger conversations
• Edit, proofread, and improve the content.
• Optimize content considering SEO and Google Analytics.
• Analyze web traffic metrics.
• Ensure a strong web presence on various channels.
• Generate ideas to increase customer engagement from 0 - 100. 
• Drive growth in our talent community via our product.
• Respond to comments and client queries in a timely manner

MUST HAVE’S

• Bachelor's degree in Media or Communications or Journalism or Humanities, or a related field.
• Project management skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication and writing skills in English
• Proficiency in LinkedIn,Instagram, and other social media platforms.

GOOD TO HAVE’S

• 1-2 years of relevant experience in startups or Media Houses(Digital)
• Previous experience working in early stage start-ups.

LOCATION

402 Pharma Search House, -, BG Kher Rd, Vasi Naka, Siddharth Nagar, Worli, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400018

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. Our launch services consist of technology enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Role

We are looking for an experienced Frontend engineer with ReactJS development experience to join our team.
Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Implement responsive and performant UIs with user centered approach with frontend technologies including ReactJS, Javascript(ES 6), Typescript, SCSS, etc
• Write meaningful test cases for frontend &amp
• Develop Infrastructure for delivering services using a performance driven approach, build databases, schedule automated jobs, etc

Ideal Background / Experience

• At least 12 months of diverse experience in web development for product or services oriented environment with exposure to working production deployments
• Expertise in programming using Python/ReactJS or similar scripting languages
• In-depth exposure to technologies used in web-based SaaS products, including REST APIs
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB

Nice to have exposure to any of

• AWS
• Azure
• ELK
• Object Relational Models (SQLAlchemy, etc)
• Google APIs
• Microservices Architecture Pattern
• NodeJS / ExpressJS

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

• Natural creativity:

The best designers 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. Have a point of view and can distinguish between "good" and "great" work.
2. Strong hands-on skills which should range from designing using Photoshop to coding UI mockups. 
3. Hands-on knowledge of front-end technologies: Html 5, CSS, JavaScript.
4. Hands-on knowledge on Photoshop / Illustrator / Dreamweaver / Fireworks / Flash. 
5. A design portfolio demonstrating the breadth and proven experience in product and services marketing communication, workflow and interaction design, visual design work, and a thorough understanding of a good design process is required.
6. Have the ability to work on digital marketing strategies, define workflows, write concepts and content to generate interest in Searce’s products, brands, and services.
7. Have the ability to think strategically, act tactically, and solve problems quickly.
8. Successfully overcome engineering challenges and understand the need for testing and iteration of new user experiences.
9. Have a track record in creating highly functional, user-focused, complete, and desirable experiences and designs.
10. Be able to lead teams through the design process and partner effectively within cross-functional teams.
11. Be innovative, enthusiastic, flexible, and creative.
12. Demonstrate excellent project management and scheduling skills.

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 Design (B.Des.).

1. A lead of visual design who envisions and creates the next generation of user interfaces for customer service.
2. A design pioneer, who will invent user interfaces that combine speech, touch, and other modalities to drive intuitive interactions on smartphones, tablets, and other connected consumer devices.
3. The ability to combine strategy with design thinking to deliver an experience like our audience never had before.
4. Bring passion and dedication to his/her job and become a storyteller through exceptional and engaging designs.