Technical Project Manager

Job Summary:

A Project Manager is responsible for planning, executing, and closing projects while ensuring they meet their objectives, are completed on time, within scope, and within budget. They lead cross-functional teams, communicate with stakeholders, and manage project risks.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Planning:

Define project scope, goals, and deliverables.

Develop a detailed project plan, including schedules, budgets, and resource allocation.

Create a project timeline and set milestones.

Team Leadership:

Assemble project teams and assign responsibilities.

Provide clear direction and motivation to team members.

Foster collaboration and effective communication among team members.

Resource Management:

Allocate and manage project resources, including personnel, equipment, and materials.

Monitor resource utilization and adjust as needed to meet project goals.

Risk Management:

Identify potential project risks and develop risk mitigation strategies.

Proactively address issues that may impact project success.

Budget Management:

Create and manage the project budget.

Monitor project expenditures and ensure they stay within budget constraints.

Quality Control:

Establish and monitor project quality standards.

Conduct regular quality assessments and take corrective actions as needed.

Communication:

Maintain open and clear communication with stakeholders, team members, and project sponsors.

Provide regular project status updates and reports.

Documentation:

Maintain accurate project documentation, including project plans, schedules, and reports.

Ensure all project documentation is organized and easily accessible.

Change Management:

Handle changes to project scope or requirements and assess their impact on the project.

Seek approvals for changes when necessary.

Project Closure:

Ensure all project deliverables are met and approved.

Conduct a project post-mortem to evaluate the project's success and identify areas for improvement.

 

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HR Team 

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Job Title: Project Manager - Product Operations
Job Location: Chennai
Condé Nast is looking for a Project Manager - Product Operations who has proven
experience in project management and the ability to lead projects across various
teams. We are looking for a creative and dedicated individual who will fit with our
collaborative culture. You will be working closely across teams to ensure that all
project requirements, deadlines, and schedules are on track.
Primary Responsibilities
● Become a subject matter expert on experience with customer
segmentation, profiling, merchandising and targeting
● Produce high-level product requirements, iterate with design and
engineering teams.
● Engage and coordinate across teams to maintain product and strategy
alignment.•
● Manage the roadmap, prioritize product opportunities, refine feature ideas and
maintain existing features to drive business goals.
● Communicate project status, key issues and decisions, coordinate meetings
through the project lifecycle with appropriate business units and stakeholders
● Ensure delivery happen on time
● Focus on continual improvement and innovation through retrospective
Desired Skills & Qualification
● 6 to 8 years Project Management experience
● 1+ years of work experience in digital marketing / brand marketing
/ performance marketing in a consumer-centric business
● PMP certified
● A proven track record of working with engineers, and various stakeholders
to coordinate,plan, execute, and track product releases end to end.
● Experience managing data projects and online web applications
● Proven ability to manage multiple initiatives at the same time
● Excellent written and verbal communication skills
● Strong problem solving skills and willingness to think outside the box and roll
up one’s sleeves to get the job done
● Familiarity with agile software development methodologies.
● Proven ability to create clear, detailed, concise documentation -
Business Requirement, stories,
● Status reports, roadmaps, charts, etc. (please include samples)
● Proficient with one or more PM and Roadmap tools such as MS Project,
Jira, ProdPad, as well as MS Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and Word
● Experience and interest in media, publishing, and / or a related industry is a
plus
● Knowledge of UAT and QA/QC processes is an added advantage
● Strong understanding of technologies (Python, JS, Java, Cloud services, etc.) is
a plus
● Bachelor’s degree in business or information technology preferred.
About Condé Nast
CONDÉ NAST GLOBAL
Condé Nast is a global media house with over a century of distinguished publishing
history. With a portfolio of iconic brands like Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker
and Bon Appétit, we at Condé Nast aim to tell powerful, compelling stories of
communities, culture and the contemporary world. Our operations are headquartered
in New York and London, with colleagues and collaborators in 32 markets across the
world, including France, Germany, India, China, Japan, Spain, Italy, Russia, Mexico, and
Latin America.
Condé Nast has been raising the industry standards and setting records for excellence
in the publishing space. Today, our brands reach over 1 billion people in print, online,
video, and social media.
CONDÉ NAST INDIA (DATA)
Over the years, Condé Nast successfully expanded and diversified into digital, TV, and
social platforms - in other words, a staggering amount of user data. Condé Nast made
the right move to invest heavily in understanding this data and formed a whole new
Data team entirely dedicated to data processing, engineering, analytics, and
visualization. This team helps drive engagement, fuel process innovation, further
content enrichment, and increase market revenue. The Data team aimed to create a
company culture where data was the common language and facilitate an environment
where insights shared in real-time could improve performance.
The Global Data team operates out of Los Angeles, New York, Chennai, and London.
The team at Condé Nast Chennai works extensively with data to amplify its brands'
digital capabilities and boost online revenue. We are broadly divided into four groups,
Data Intelligence, Data Engineering, Data Science, and Operations (including Product
and Marketing Ops, Client Services) along with Data Strategy and monetization. The
teams-built capabilities and products to create data-driven solutions for better
audience engagement.
What we look forward to:
We want to welcome bright, new minds into our midst and work together to create
diverse forms of self-expression. At Condé Nast, we encourage the imaginative and
celebrate the extraordinary. We are a media company for the future, with a remarkable
past. We are Condé Nast, and It Starts Here.

Job Description

Delivery Manager -

• Manage a delivery team to ensure timely and accurate customer deliveries.

• Oversee daily activities of the delivery team and provide direction and guidance as needed.

• Perform resource allocations and workload assignments according to delivery requirements.

• Ensure that team maintains a high level of competence and operational excellence.

• Evaluate the performance of team members and determine training needs.

Roles & Responsibilities

Delivery Management and Escalations

• Owns the end to end delivery of the Projects, focusing on regular and timely delivery of value

• Define project scope and schedule, define and track the Release/Project plan, milestones as per SOW/Release Plan and work closely with PO/SM for the same

• Manage risks and issues, Understand and flag risks/mitigations and dependencies along with SMs/POs appropriately and timely manner

• Prepare and provide progress reports and updates

• Manage deviations from plans and work closely with SM/PO in apprising client in case of any scope/plan changes and work towards negotiation/SOW edits/approvals or take corrective measures

• Be an escalation point for every SM and PO and Client on project-related issues and provide resolution or resolve the same in a timely manner

• Manage engagement/relationship with the client and work towards the inputs/feedback from the CSAT review

People and Team Management

• Work closely with SM in removing roadblocks to their work

• Understand and solves learning, development, and training needs of Projects and team members

• Set-up goals/Roles & Responsibilities for the group/team members

• Work closely with SM for defining the career path, performance improvement plan(PIP) for group/team-members

• Takes all Hiring decisions

• Do resource Management- allocation, projections and take all Staffing decisions in consultation with PO and SM

• Work with Agile Coach to find and execute training needs and places for improvement

• Skip-level meetings with people to see their motivation, any personal issues, inter-team conflict, etc.

• Evaluate the engagement level of the group/team members and take respective actions

• Experimenting with innovation projects, pet projects, product ideas

• Drives cultural change working along with Agile Coach

Process

• Works closely with Delivery Directors to discover challenges and access programs. Ensure review and retrospective recommendations are getting implemented in the projects and work closely with Agile Coach to address the challenges with proposed recommendations.

• Improving hiring and staffing process, future planning for the group growth

• Work with the Architects/Chief Architect in supporting him to adopt the recommended engineering practices

• Get Project/Delivery Audits done for Projects at regular intervals and take respective actions

360 Degree review

• Create a 360 view of project health metrics as per Srijan standards

• Represent 360 reviews for Project at a regular cadence and provide project updates in PM forums

• Get involved in team 360 review(quarterly/project end) and work towards the feedback of team members and facilitate appraisal decisions for group/team-members

Organizational contributions

• Participate and represent group in Strategy meet with required details

• Encourage team-members/group to participate in Organisation contributions/forums

• Be a channel for Srijan to showcase by attending, delivering, networking at meetups, presentations, sessions, workshops etc.

• Be an evangelist and help HR in hiring/onboarding

Required Skills/Experience

• Overall Experience of 10+ years in the Industry

• Good experience in Agile methodology

• Analytical skills

• Well-developed interpersonal skills

• Commercial awareness

• Effective Communication

• Team working skills

• Ability to motivate people

• Management and leadership skills

Tasks and Activities:
1. Serve as a day-to-day point of client contact
2. Writing creative briefs & minutes of the meeting and de-briefing the team
3. Research and prepare client presentations, reports and conduct in-person client meetings
4. Research on industry & competitor trends to apply best practices to client portfolio
5. Understanding client goals/objectives and their creative requirements including Branding,Packaging, UI/UX Design, Social Media, Content Development, Web Development, Graphic Design, Digital Marketing & more
6. Work jointly with the internal team to drive strategy & development
7. Identify growth opportunities from the client portfolio and drive revenue by upselling
8. Research & keep current on emerging online trends and best practices within the Creative Digital Industry.
10. Maintaining profitability of all the projects and completing projects within stipulated timelines.
11. Keeping a track of all the payment milestones for the projects.
12. Being a part of brainstorming sessions with the creative team to facilitate good campaigns.

DYT - Do Your Thing, is an app, where all social media users can share brands they love with their followers and earn money while doing so! We believe everyone is an influencer. Our aim is to democratise social media and allow people to be rewarded for the content they post. How does DYT help you? It accelerates your career through collaboration opportunities with top brands and gives you access to a community full of experts in the influencer space. 

We are hiring for Intern-Client Success for a duration of 2 months with a stipend of Rs 5000/month.

The job role will require the following:
1. good communication skills
2. coordianting with clients
3. Reporting & briefing

This is an urgent opening, apply if you are willing to join soon.

In today’s high-demand equals high-price world, our client focuses on being a universal factory that produces high-quality industrial goods at costs that are globally competitive. The services offered by them include sand casting, investment casting, sheet metal stamping, injection molding etc. and the industries served by them include railways, apparel, consumer electronics etc.

 

So far in their journey, their network includes, approx., 10K+ suppliers, 600+ customers, 2K+ projects, serving 15+ countries and 25+ industries.

 

Headquartered in Bangalore, they also have offices in the USA and Singapore. They have raised a total of approx. $649M in funding over 11 rounds.

 

As a Program Manager, you will be responsible for owning the company's vision, strategy and execution of multiple new enterprise resource planning systems and 3rd party software with the company's OS.

What you will do:

• Working with internal customers, external partners and translating business requirements into scalable solutions
• Defining the implementation roadmap and timeline to meet business objectives
• Working across engineers, business stakeholders, external stakeholders, customer ops and partnering closely with business units
• Helping us execute on long term bets to help us hyper scale our business

 

Desired Candidate Profile

What you need to have:

• Strong Program Management skills
• Experience working with business teams, consultants and implementation partners
• Experience implementing an ERP or CRM Tool at an organization- preferably Dynamics or SAP
• Proven track record of leading complex projects with multiple cross-team customers to delivery and completion
• Ability to determining business needs via consultation, business analysis, and targeted observations
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Comfortable working alt Saturdays

 

Srijan is a 15 year old company providing Consulting, designing and engineering products and solutions in the digital space - since 2002. Srijan is Asia's largest pure-play Drupal company - delivering valuable software using Drupal and Javascript. Srijan has a track record of building highly impactful, elegantly designed Portals, scalable Websites, complex Web Applications and Products that achieve the strategic results enterprises need. Srijan has its global headquarters at New Delhi, India; and its India development centers in Delhi, Gurgaon, Bangalore and Goa. Its Sales and Customer Service offices are located at New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Philippines, London and a location (under finalization) in Germany.

• 15+ years of Hands-on technical application architecture experience and Application build/ modernization experience

• 15+ years of experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles.

• Ability to travel to client locations as needed (25-50%)

• Extensive experience architecting, designing and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment

• Experience with designing and building applications using AWS services such as EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks

• Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability

• Hands-on programming skills in any of the following: Python, Java, Node.js, Ruby, .NET or Scala

• Agile software development expert
• Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins)

• Hands-on familiarity with CloudFormation

• Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible)

• Strong scripting skills (e.g. Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

• Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems

• Extra curricula software development passion (e.g. active open source contributor)

Rejolut is one of the award-winning fastest-growing emerging tech company which is working on leading technology like Blockchain, ML & AI, Complex mobile & web apps, IoT, etc.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing a development team and client coordination.

 

Roles & Responsibilities:-
• Collaborate with business and functional partners and technology leadership in defining features backlog and specifying requirements
• Taking Ownership of Delivery
• Drive technology discussion and strategy in line with business needs and company reference architecture
• Define execution plan and approach based on project scope, the expected timeline,
• Support execution team with resolution of roadblocks and inter-dependencies Partner with technical and functional teams external to the project to ensure their tasks are completed as required
• Ensure quality of deliverable is verified and matching stakeholder expectations
• Conducting daily scrum calls for smooth delivery.

 

How we are different 
 We are a young and dynamic team who are obsessed with solving the business problem at scale. We are a technology agnostic company that focus more on finding the optimal solution to the business problem rather than technology.

 Why to join us
 - We provide huge learning curve. Spending 1.5-2 years with us will put you 3 years ahead in the career.
- We work only on cutting edge technology like React, React Native, Flutter, NodeJS, Python, Go, Svelte, ELM
- There are two technology Co-founder in the company who are pretty much hands-on and have earlier bult the Consumer application which is downloaded millions of time and are in leadership position in copanies like Samsung, Purplle, Loyalty Rewardz.
- Get mentored by the best in the industry
- Flexible working hours
- Perks best in the industry

 

Introduction

Are you passionate about using technology to make people's lives better? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.

 

Role and Responsibilities

1. Ensures correct adaptation of Agile practices at the team level.
2. Coaches the Product Manager on Product Backlog management.
3. Leads the team to remove impediments to reach the sprint goal.
4. Organizes the agile rituals and ceremonies, and makes sure that it is applied correctly within the team. If necessary, facilitates these rituals.
5. Guides the team in organizing motivational and inclusive events.
6. Supports onboarding of the new people who joined the team.
7. Guides the team for continuous improvement (Kaizen).
8. Responsible for the correct flow of the team’s processes and workflow.
9. Helps the team visualize its performance, impediments, and processes.
   
   Requirements

1. BTech or MTech degree in engineering or relevant fields
2. Having deep knowledge in the Agile mindset.
3. Experience in working and applying Agile for a minimum of 2 years in a software development team is required (Scrum Master role is preferred).
4. Confidence in working with multiple Agile teams.
5. Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills.
6. Excellent analytical thinking, problem-solving, and facilitation skills.
7. Excellent command of written and spoken English.
8. Certification of the following is a plus: PSM, PSPO, PSK, PAL, PMI-ACP, etc.
   
   Who You Are

1. Passionate about technology, processes, and making an impact.
2. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
3. A doer who takes initiative to help the teams achieve their goals regardless of boundaries, and works well in a team.