Scrum Master

Proposal coordination, bid management, requirement analysis, solution consulting, market research, proposal designing, and business development. 

Experience in working with telecom,

Responsible for driving end-to-end opportunities- RFP/RFI & Proactive for the telecom sector across Americas, Europe, and UK&I regions.

End to End-to-end bid Management, Preparing Techno-commercial responses for RFP/RFI, Business Intelligence, preparing proactive proposals, competitive commercial structure, and Strategic Initiatives.

Core competencies:

Proposal Coordination | Bid Management | Pursuit Management | Pre-sales | Account Based Marketing | Content Writing | Proposal Designing

Technical Skills:

Tools and Systems: MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel, MS

OneNote, and PowerBl

What will you be doing at Enalo?

• Understand the problem statement and derive potential product solutions.
• Conduct market research, competitor analysis and user research.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to take the product forward.
• Participate in product strategy, build a roadmap and execute to bring products to life.
• Manage product requirement definition and feature identification for future initiatives, including documentation of prioritized feature sets and use cases.
• Lead the development and QA teams at the appropriate times to realise the goals of the product.
• Own scrum and all the related activities like sprint planning, and release.
• Create user stories and use cases for product features.
• Look for roadblocks and mitigate risks.
• Organize daily stand-ups, brainstorming and review sessions.
• Maintain backlogs and prioritize them effectively.
• Experience the product as an end-user and identify gaps to make the product better. And ensure users can see the value of the product!
• Craft product presentations and do demos.
• Define product metrics and speak through data.
• Be a driving force in assembling the resources necessary to ship high-impact products and features, and facilitate communication throughout the development process.
• Work with the release process and support teams to ensure that the product is released successfully and any issues in production are resolved quickly.
• Measure and analyse the success of a product or feature using internal tools as well as tools like Google Analytics
• Efficiently manage agile development of the product.
• Contribute to the product's 'Go To Market' Strategy.

Skills required :

• Strong familiarity with product development, user flows and UI experience.
• Proven ability to successfully manage all phases of the product development lifecycle.
• Expertise with web/mobile analytic tools.
• Excellent organizational, statistical, strategic thinking, problem-solving, analytical, written and oral presentation and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of agile management (Scrum).
• Ability to break the ground through research and data analysis.
• Good collaboration, design thinking and presentation skills.
• Affinity to marketing.
• Preferred experience in product development as an engineer
• Preferred experience in a product company
• Experience in building or working with an early-stage tech product startup would be a plus.
• Excellent organizational, statistical, strategic thinking, problem-solving, analytical, written and oral presentation and communication skills.
• Experience in B2B SaaS/Payments will be added advantage.

Job Description

Looking for a results-driven Agile Engineering Project Manager to join our team of innate problem solvers. As an engineering expert with an agile mindset, you plan, solve the unexpected, and always innovating new ways to exceed expectation. This role requires individual who is able to empower and motivate the teams in order to bring about successful change.

This role is an excellent opportunity for someone who would like to join an international global organization with a ‘start-up’ mentality. We highly value Openness, Collaboration, Learning Mindset, and partnering with our customers to drive Positive Outcome.

• MUST - SAFe Agile Certification and experience delivering in a SAFe environment
• Good knowledge in SaaS product and evolving trends
• Strong - hands on- project management experience from inception to closure phases
• Technical business analysis experience in consulting and digital transformation solution
• Hands-on technical expertise
• Appetite to learn fast in a changing environment

Job Requirements

Skills / Competencies

• 3+ years of Agile product/project management experience in delivering digital or technology-based solutions
• 5+ years of experience developing applications using Java, Spring Boot, REST Micro Services and Cloud Technologies
• 2 or more engagements as a lead (scrum master, product owner, Kanban lead, etc.) on delivery or consulting projects / product based on Scrum/ Kanban framework
• Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities for smarten Spaces community that helps them succeed in their business goals
• Partner with Agile leadership, other delivery leads, Product Owner and other internal / external stakeholders to drive effective adoption of best practices, deployment of processes, methodologies and tools, execution of ceremonies and to drive continuous improvement on delivery engagements
• Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
• Instil best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
• Software Development experience; experience in building and leading strong engineering teams
• Solid software development background including design patterns, data structures, test driven development
• A product mindset for owning the set-up of the end to end delivery process and tools
• Leading multiple projects with revenue, quality and timeline accountability
• Proven in delivering enterprise programs and comfortable working with a remote regional team
• Highly proficient in scope (requirements)/ backlog management, quality management and risks and issues management
• Experience of delivering one or more fixed time, fixed price or SLA based managed services engagements
• Should have experience of leading all Agile ceremonies
• Proficient in delivery and quality metrics, burn down charts, progress and status reporting
• Ability to challenge scope / requirements and review non-technical deliverables such as user documentation, estimates, etc
• Knowledge of 2 or more effort and cost estimation methodologies/ frameworks
• Ability to align the team on the organizational and (or) product vision and lead them to realise stated business outcomes.

Softskills

• Desire to work in fast paced environment along with project and time management skills
• Good attitude toward work and Strong problem solving
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently or with a group
• Should have a clear thinking process
• Should be able to manage a team
• Should have a learning agility

Qualification

• 5 to 8 years of hands-on technical experience using Java, Spring Boot, REST Micro Services
• 3 to 5 years of Agile product/project management experience
• BE / B Tech or equivalent from any recognized university
• SAFe Agilist or SAFe PO/PM Certification

Senior Product Owner (Digital Transformation)

Executive Summary
Are you looking to level up? The Senior Product Owner (Digital Transformation) role at FirstPrinciples and the partner that you will be staffed with is a multi-million dollar digital transformation initiatives on web and mobile with one of the largest large Luxury Home Builders in the United States.

About FirstPrinciples & The Role

FirstPrinciples is a Tech Holding company with a Venture Studio as part of its holdings. One part of the Venture Studio business at FirstPrinciples is about working with large enterprises on long-term digital transformation initiatives within their organization. The position that we are currently hiring for involves a multi-million dollar digital transformation initiatives for one of the largest Luxury Home Builders in the United States. Our scope involves working as expert consultants to advice and execute on upgrading the IT & Tech different internal and stakeholder facing systems within their organization. We are working on both web and mobile platforms. 

Who is This For

This is for an experienced Product Owner/Manager who is looking to take their career to the next stage by working on a large scale initiative that will challenge and extend their current capacities.

At FirstPrinciples, we truly act as a Tech Strategic Consultant along with having the operational capacity to implement the suggested recommendations. This role is for someone who is able to provide recommendations to the client while having the ownership of the end deliverables. While we have technical leaders also staffed within this partnership, we are looking for someone who can talk the talk with senior engineers and tech architects and understand their recommendations and its implications. 

Requirements

• One of the following certifications (PRINCE2, CSP, CAPM, CBAP (BABOK), Agile, CSP, CSPO, PMPO)
• Experience in independently managing, End-to-End Business Analysis, Product Analysis, Project Management for complex IT Projects and Products / Apps
• Working with Client to understand provide Consulting or Business Solutions, Problem Solving Approach and Skills, Strong Analytical Skills, should be able to read between the lines
• Managing scope via release management and planning and creating User-Stories, Running Sprints Cycle and Experience working with a team of 15-20 resources
• Requirements Gathering, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Management, Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Matrix (RTMs)
• Experience in Developing Low-Level and High-Level Prototyping using Wireframes tools (using any of the latest wireframing tools, such as JustInMind, Adobe XD, MockFlow, etc)
• Ownership of the Product Backlog & Deliverables and developing the User Stories & Release Planning
• Experience in Writing and Maintaining Business Requirement Documents (BRD) or PRDs and Functional Specification Document (FSD), Software Requirements Specification (SRS)
• Should have experience in creating Project Budgeting, Creating Efforts Estimations (EE), Presentation Decks, and Clean Documentation 
• Experience in Writing Test Cases and Managing UAT and Deployment 
• Analysis: GAP, Fish-bone Analysis, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), MoSCOW
• Experience in Consulting clients on Problem Statements V/s Solution Building based on AS-IS and TO-BE
• Experience converting Business Cases to Technology case and Building Products from scratch thus Translating Business Requirements into Software Requirement Specifications
• Interacting with the Technical team to ensure Delivery and Implementation of the Software Solution/Projects
• Client Relationship Management, Excellent at English Speaking, and Written Communication
• Understanding of Change Management, Risk Management and Project Management

Management Skills

1. Excellent Written and Oral Communication Skills and Etiquettes
2. Excellent Presentation Skills 
3. Experience in working with Onshore and Offshore Teams and Experience handling Cross-Functional Projects, Resources and Clients
4. Experience dealing with Pressure and Meeting strict Project Deadlines
5. Leadership and Motivational Skills to ensure the Work is being done by the Resources on time and within the specified budget
6. Conflict and Resolution Management
7. Prior experience in operations management - good to have 
8. Experience working with US Clients

TechStack & Platform

1. MEAN Stack (Web)
2. Native iOS & Android (Mobile)
3. AWS
   
   
   

The ideal candidate is an analytical team player who will be responsible for getting things done, identifying the critical issues within the existing product, skilled in problem solving, planned execution and finally evaluating the solution. Ability to work with a team of high performing individuals, also work cross-functionally to complete product roadmaps and discover new opportunities.

Work Responsibilities:

1. Work closely with senior leadership in Product, Technology, Business, Marketing and Design team to articulate business needs to actionable product requirements.
2. Take complete ownership of the products, refining the existing features in the product. Working on new features, identifying the user requirements and ultimately improving the lifetime of the users using our product.
3. A basic understanding of qualitative and quantitative methods for user research. Establish a closed feedback loop with users & Synthesizing user needs and insights into simple yet delightful experiences.
4. Periodically conduct user-research, industry analysis, competitor mapping and ideate on what to build next. Compile information from various sources to formulate a current picture of the company and market.
5. Improving the user journey, reducing the drop-off rates.
6. Obsess with data, define and track key metrics and draw actionable insights using data. Establish KPIs, and conduct quality assessments
7. Help define Product Roadmap for new offerings aligned with the broader company vision and yearly targets
8. Work with cross-functional team to take something from idea to hands of users
9. Maximize the efficiency of all business procedures, Dissect product analytics and user behavior patterns into meaningful insights that grow the product.

Skills Required:

• Tech background with a good understanding of technology, data and building products. 2-6 years of experience in Product Management, Software Development, Analytics or similar roles in a consumer internet product set-up.
• A strong product sense, attention to the little big details, and eye for good visual design.
• Capable of taking business metrics, requirements or user problems and breaking them into workable product requirements, and leading the development of identified features
• Excellent presentation & communication, problem-solving, organizational and analytical skills to get the team on board with your vision
• Able to multitask, prioritize, work autonomously and with great time management skills
• Prior track record of working with product team from research phases through engineering to success would be highly preferred.