Shift Manager

Designation: Project Manager

Location: Bangalore (Hybrid)

Reports to: Co-Founder & CBO

About the Role

We are looking for a driven and detail-oriented Project Manager to lead the execution of high-impact digital product initiatives for our clients. This is a high-ownership role that demands end-to-end accountability — from scoping and planning to execution and delivery. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure projects are delivered on time, with high quality and measurable business outcomes. If you're someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, brings structure to ambiguity, and leads with clarity and data, we’d love to connect.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the single point of accountability for end-to-end project execution — ensuring on-time, high-quality, and profitable delivery of digital product solutions across strategy, design, and development.
• Collaborate closely with internal teams (design, engineering, research) and client stakeholders to translate project objectives into actionable plans with clear timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
• Define and manage project scope, resourcing, dependencies, budgets, and risks — proactively identifying and mitigating potential blockers.
• Bring clarity and structure to execution by setting up robust documentation, operating rhythms, and tracking mechanisms; ensure timely communication of progress, challenges, and escalations to leadership and clients.
• Drive project governance through weekly health reviews, accurate status reports, and rigorous issue/risk tracking with defined accountability.
• Own the quality of delivery — ensure alignment of deliverables with project goals, client expectations, and internal benchmarks for innovation and excellence.
• Make data work for you — use structured data and reporting to surface insights, enable decision-making, and identify areas of improvement.
• Lead with influence, not authority — foster alignment and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams in a fast-paced, often ambiguous environment.
• Embrace a problem-solving mindset — proactively drive solutions to cross-functional execution challenges, and be comfortable navigating trade-offs.
• Contribute to internal IP and process improvements that enhance delivery maturity and scalability across projects.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in project management, with a proven track record of driving end-to-end execution of complex digital or technology projects.
• Prior experience in a service-based or consulting environment, managing external client stakeholders and internal cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of digital product development lifecycle — from strategy to design to engineering execution.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project scope, budgets, timelines, and risks with a high sense of ownership and accountability.
• Proficiency in project management tools such as Jira, Asana, Trello, or ClickUp; comfort with setting up and customizing workflows, reports, and dashboards.
• Strong analytical mindset — ability to work with data, identify trends, generate insights, and support decision-making through structured reporting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills — capable of simplifying complex ideas, aligning diverse stakeholders, and presenting with clarity to clients and leadership.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and stay composed under pressure.
• Hands-on, detail-oriented, and structured — someone who can bring method to chaos and drive clarity in ambiguity.
• A natural collaborator and influencer — able to build trust, motivate teams, and drive alignment without direct authority.
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Good to have:

• Experience in managing digital transformation, innovation-led, or customer experience focused projects.
• Exposure to product strategy, UX research, or agile software development practices.
• Certification in PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile methodologies is a plus, but not mandatory.

About Thence

Thence is a product innovation and digital design firm that partners with ambitious companies to reimagine digital experiences. We offer end-to-end solutions — from product strategy and experience design to full-stack development — helping our clients launch, scale, and transform digital products. With a focus on design excellence, measurable impact, and deep collaboration, we take pride in building solutions that users love and businesses value.

Position of the role

The Principal Engineer reports to the Domain Lead and plays a key role in driving the technical vision, strategy, and execution of development initiatives. The Principal Engineer collaborates with multiple teams to ensure that software solutions are scalable, cost-optimized, performant, and aligned with business objectives.

Result expectation in terms of result areas and core activities

The Principal Engineer is responsible for defining, designing, and overseeing the implementation of complex software solutions. This role involves deep technical expertise, mentorship, and architectural guidance across multiple teams. The Principal Engineer also acts as a thought leader, influencing technology choices, best practices, and innovation within the organization.

Main objectives of the role

✔ Leading the design and architecture of the software by following best practices that ensure scalability, maintainability, cost optimization, and high performance.

✔ Driving innovation and continuous improvements in software development practices.

✔ Providing technical mentorship and coaching to engineers across teams.

✔ Ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software aligned with business requirements.

✔ Defining and maintaining coding standards, best practices, and governance frameworks.

✔ Collaborating with product management and other stakeholders to shape the technical roadmap.

✔ Identifying technical debt and implementing strategies to mitigate it effectively.

✔ Promoting a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and cross-team collaboration.

✔ Leading DevOps, CI/CD, and automation to improve software delivery processes and efficiency.

Specialisation

✔ Deep understanding of software architecture, system design, and performance optimization.

✔ Translating complex business requirements into scalable and efficient software solutions.

✔ Handling large data transformations and ensuring system efficiency under the required load conditions.

✔ Leading initiatives for modernizing the technology stack and implementing best practices.

✔ Ensuring that security, scalability, and maintainability are embedded into development processes.

✔ Driving research and development efforts to explore emerging technologies and their business impact.

✔ Enabling teams to develop and maintain high-quality software through code reviews, architecture guidance, and technical strategy.

✔ Collaborating with product owners and stakeholders to ensure that development aligns with business goals and user needs.

Key processes in the role

✔ Agile / Scrum / Kanban development methodologies.

✔ CI/CD and DevOps practices to streamline delivery.

✔ Cloud-native architecture, monolith and microservices-based development.

✔ Scalable and high-performance computing strategies.

✔ Secure software development lifecycle (SDLC).

✔ Data-driven decision-making.

✔ Performance optimization.

Key relationships (teams and/or position titles)

✔ Engineering Teams (Developers, QA, DevOps).

✔ Head of Engineering and Technology Leadership.

✔ Product Management and Business Stakeholders.

✔ Customer Success and Solution Architects.

✔ External Technical Partners and Vendors.

Requirements

✔ Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

✔ 10+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record .

✔ Strong experience in Python and modern software engineering practices.

✔ Expertise in cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

✔ Experience in architecting and developing scalable, high-performance applications.

✔ Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tools, and automation.

✔ Deep understanding of microservices, monolith, APIs, and distributed systems.

✔ Strong experience with database technologies, including SQL and NoSQL.

✔ Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.

✔ A passion for mentoring, coaching, and fostering a strong engineering culture.

✔ Experience in defining and implementing technical governance and best practices.

Competences

✔ Strategic Thinking - 4

✔ Analytical Problem Solving - 4

✔ Technical Leadership & Mentorship - 4

✔ Communication & Collaboration - 3

Measures of success

✔ Technical leadership impact - measurable improvements in code quality, architecture, and scalability.

✔ Delivery of high-quality software within agreed timelines and business requirements.

✔ Successful mentorship - improvement in team skill levels, problem-solving capabilities, and innovation.

✔ Reduction of technical debt through strategic refactoring and modernization.

✔ Engineering team satisfaction - based on feedback and collaboration effectiveness.

✔ Improvements in system performance, stability, cost-optimization, and security.

✔ Adoption of best practices and emerging technologies across teams.

✔ Contribution to company-wide strategic initiatives through technical innovation and leadership.

Job Description for AEM Autodesk-

Responsibilities :

Work with product owners to form technical solutions that meet requirements

Collaborate with architects, designers, product team, other developers and teams, as well as participate in code reviews

Help design and implement components that integrate with internal and external systems

Take ownership of, be a subject matter expert and maintain complex modules

Specific, actionable and responsible project updates in an Agile environment

Engineer mobile and web experiences with exceptional performance

Requirements :

5+ years industry experience with AEM (Adobe Experience Manager)

1+ years of experience with Contentful 

Understanding and experience developing web services using AWS 

Understanding and experience of server-side web development using Java

Experience developing efficient and reliable JavaScript (ES6/2015), both client and server-side and Javascript testing frameworks such as 

Jasmine, mocha.js, Jest

Experience creating maintainable CSS

Experience with Object-Oriented and Functional programming paradigms

Understand fundamental elements of good software architecture

Working understanding of the latest web APIs and standards (HTML 5, CSS 3, ECMAScript 2015)

Experience with continuous integration tools, such as Jenkins

3 or more years of relevant programming experience

2 or more years experience with Adobe AEM (CQ) and related technologies

1 or more years of experience working in a modern web application stack (React, Backbone, Angular, Ember, etc.)

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or equivalent work experience

Proficiency in spoken and written English 

* Knowledge of Hotel Technology Sales

* Meeting or exceeding sales goals.

* Preparing weekly and monthly reports.

* Coordinating sales efforts with marketing programs.

* Preparing and submitting sales contracts for orders.

* Engage in sales calls

* Provide the corporate sales manager with the daily, weekly and monthly reports to know how many visits, figures and target achieved.

* Identify potential Customer and build a prospect hit list on monthly basis.

**Job Requirements**

• Excellent communication skills

• Presentation skills

• Good Communication and Negotiation skills

• 3+ Years of solid experience

• Bachelor’s degree in any field

• Sales skills

• Think like a product owner
• Design and build new products and manage their delivery
• Drive culture, learning, and development of team members and of the larger org
• Mentor, motivate & ensure delivery from a small team
• Take ownership and get the job done
• Ensure the quality of deliverables

• 4-7 years of hands-on experience in the design and development of applications using NodeJs, ReactJs, MySQL, etc.
• Good architectural and design skills
• Strong coding, data structures, and algorithms
• An engineering degree preferably, from a top-tier school (or an equivalent experience)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git/SVN
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Experience in Elastic Search/ Solr/ Amazon AWS
• Experience building sites to function cross-platform and cross-browser
• The ability to own end-to-end responsibility
• The role will give you an opportunity to work with a cross-functional team from Business, Product, and Design, and lead a team of 4-7 rockstar engineers.

• A team of aces, from top-tier schools and startups, to work with
• A fast-paced, data-driven, and fun work environment
• A huge appetite for new, disruptive, creative, and implementable ideas
• An open work culture

• Competitive salary
• A great working environment with an opportunity to work directly with the founders on very exciting real-life problems
• Opportunity to grow really fast.
• Opportunity to hire a team & mentor them.
• ESOPs