Technical Project Manager

EMB is looking for a Product Delivery Manager to join their team! As a Product Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for monitoring and guiding the execution of all work that is delivered by our partners. You will provide excellent client service, applying the partner’s best resources and effectively managing people across departments to ensure that projects are flawlessly executed on time and on budget.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyzing the structure of a business, understanding its goals, and advising technical and non-technical stakeholders on how to achieve those goals through technology.
• Being an expert and evangelist for EMB, and in how to deploy our capabilities to maximise customer success.
• Experience in Web/ Mobile App based projects is ideal
• Creating product documentation, user flows, and rough wireframes, and working with designers to refine the customer experience into a polished, shippable product.
• Communicating, translating, and simplifying business requirements to ensure buy-in from all stakeholders
• Working with the Technical team to ensure that they understand what the customer wants to achieve, all the way through to detailed specifications.
• Develop strong, trusting relationships with internal teams and clients
• Ensure flawless execution of projects
• Coordinate with the partners to develop schedules and enforce/ execute them
• Manage the project schedules to ensure completion on time. Surface any unresolved timing or resource issues with the partner
• Develop rapport and partnering relationships with key clients. Build the relationship by demonstrating a genuine sense of responsibility for the success of the business
• Manages project scopes to ensure projects stay on budget
• Involved in project-level strategy planning/development
• Develop a deeper understanding of the client’s business and the automotive environment by actively learning about business, products, and competitive environment.
• Based on knowledge of business and industry, bring forward and identify new initiatives and opportunities
• Writes presentations, POVs, test plans, and recommendations for projects
• Presents creative ideas to clients
• Understand fast past nature of business and positively respond to last-minute client requests
• Sufficient presence to be respected by clients and internally
• Understanding problems and building solution prioritization frameworks

Required Skills

• University degree (ideally in tech-related courses)
• Ideally 1-2 years of experience in an agency environment in a client service role
• Proficient in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines across multiple projects, and display strong organizational skills
• Ability to transfer knowledge from project-to-project
• Well organized
• Shows initiative and desire to learn
• Handles assigned work requests in an efficient, timely manner
• Has strong client relationship experience
• Can successfully complete projects without assistance
• Understanding of KPIs and analytics
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
• Use sound and logical judgment
• Displays strong problem-solving skills
• Strong client service orientation
• Demonstrated strong attention to detail
• Product-oriented problem-solving approach
• Understanding of key marketing metrics and product funnel

At EMB, Relationship is our middle name.

We employ the most innovative talent in the industry to drive digital transformation for our client's businesses and provides creative solutions to help brands grow meaningful relationships with people.

What we offer: 

• A multi-disciplinary role with tremendous opportunity to learn and grow in an early-stage startup.
• An open work culture - We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity. 
• Flexible working hours and leave policy.

Description:

As the Operations Manager, you will analyse the current state operations, propose workflows and tools that drive improvements to the app or for addressing country-specific needs. Identify and execute on opportunities, to streamline workflows and increase collaboration and productivity across the team. You will proactively track risks/issues with development, ensure business requirements are met, and advocate for future enhancements. Support the leadership team in implementing new ideas effectively within the Uable culture and manage change to maximise adoption of new tools or processes. Define operational metrics and develop reporting tools as needed, for leadership to understand business performance.

Your role/responsibilities:

• Understand the operational framework and work on efficient delivery mechanisms for customer support, Event management & programme management
• Build effective processes to handle escalations ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Work closely with learning design, product, growth, analytics teams to manage/execute the right processes.
• Ability to partner with global cross-functional business partners, engineering teams, and senior management, to identify and define short-term and long-term solutions to operational challenges.
• Leadership experience in process improvement and programme management experience in startups is a plus
• Coordinating cross function for implementing and execution of events, managing communication, managing event feedback surveys, handling post-event reports.
• Manage our events calendar, assisting with event marketing, monitoring timeframes, and delivering on event brief objectives. 

Skills/Qualifications (good to have):

• Have a proactive outlook to problem-solving and willingness to adapt in a highly demanding, collaborative, and fast-paced environment with rapidly changing direction and new challenges
• Proficient in Office Suite and Lead Management Software & project management skills
• Work with the Product Owners and coordinate with project managers and other departments to get projects released on time.
• Ability to manage, monitors and measures project portfolio status, recommending corrective action as necessary, and communicate portfolio status to their management.
• Ability to participate in interviewing, hiring, and training team members; plan, assign, and direct work; appraise performance; reward and discipline team members; address complaints and resolve problems
• Relentless focus on operational excellence by setting the right processes and improving efficiency at every step and balance attention to detail with swift execution.
• Strong quantitative analytical skills and experience developing dashboards and reporting tools using spreadsheet applications, Tableau, etc. a plus.
• Knowledge of the iOS, macOS, and App Store ecosystem a plus.

Personality: 

• You are a driven and curious person with the aptitude and agility to learn. 
• You are an extrovert and a leader who has built great teams and a team player with great interpersonal skills.
• You are detail and process-oriented person by nature. A natural problem solver and a go-getter.
• You don’t settle with what-is, you constantly strive for excellence.
• You are an explorer with the ability to investigate and get the data; define and work on multiple tasks and complete work within deadlines.
• You are a clear and concise communicator with the ability to synthesize a lot of information quickly, highlight the key takeaways, and disseminate actionable insights.

JD: Technical Project Manager (MERN stack)

Exp: 9-20 Yrs

Location: Anywhere India (Remote)

- 10 + Yrs of total experience along with knowledge and experience in MERN (Mongo db, Express js, React js and Node js) stack.

- Experience to lead and manage technical teams.

- Experience in Agile project management and Scrum

- Expertise in Engineering Delivery

- Experience in working on deployments and CI/CD.

- Full stack development experience 

- Hands on experience in MERN stack

Responsibilities:

• Manage each project's scope and timeline
• Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups across teams
• Coach team members in Agile frameworks
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
• Be the point of contact for external communications (e. g. from customers or stakeholders)
• Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
• Help teams implement changes effectively
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
• Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
• Help build a productive environment where team members own' the product and enjoy working on it
• High level understanding of various tech stacks, basics of API and microservices

Requirements:

• Leadership, Decision-Making skills.
• Responsibility.
• Effective communication.
• Attention to Detail.
• Task Delegation.
• Comfortable with participatory management.

• Handling product and process development, nutrition profiling, claims development, shelf life testing, manufacturing scale up
• Managing projects - working with team on product, process, packaging development, regulatory, nutrition, manufacturing scaling up
• Being the point of contact for client - weekly project tracking, working with the client and other stakeholders to ensure on time in full delivery of the project

Desired Candidate Profile

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Desired Candidate Profile:

• Good Customer success handling experience.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills
• Excellent leadership & team managing skills, Customers and deliveries

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Arrange and participate in discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment.
• Delivering products in an iterative, agile software lifecycle Desired Competencies / Experience.
• Develop detailed project plan to track progress, Knowledge of managing projects with use of risk management, quality management & scope change management.
• Responsible for managing timing, resources, budget and quality commitments of programs. Manage software budget and resource plan of scrum teams in alignment with project needs.
• Has strong technical knowledge and expertise in resolving technical issues. Ensure project dashboards are up to date for stakeholders review Innovate and identify measures for quick and flawless project delivery. Assess technical skill requirements and ensure that resources can meet those requirements by creating learning opportunities.
• Lead technical project teams as required, including engagement with third parties, product managers, and internal partners, through all stages of the SDLC.

Education/Qualification:

BS/MS in computer science or prior experience as a software engineer

• Certified Scrum Master
• PMP or equivalent - nice to have to apply.

• Analyze, plan and develop requirements and standards in reference to the product pipeline.
• Create and manage the product plan for new tech integrations with the third-party vendors.
• Manage the current integrations with the third-party vendors for ongoing changes & requirements.
• Determine and define clear deliverables for the team members. Assign and oversee the daily tasks of technical personnel while ensuring the team is actively working toward established product milestones.
• Hold daily scrum team meetings to determine progress and address any questions or challenges regarding projects
• Establish and implement training processes and strategies for all technical personnel
• Ensure high test coverage and low post release issues through effective product planning.
• Prepare progress reports for senior management.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Project Management or related technical field required
• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
• Experience mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent in the technology department
• Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality
• Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacle

We are looking for a passionate PMO Lead to be part of Enterprise PMO which responsible for the entire organization support function on compliance , adherence and Governance of Standards, Operations, Policies and Procedures. We are looking for very dynamic and energetic PMO Lead to drive the delivery governance and excellence  as per Business Objectives.  Looking of people with high level accountability and ownership to drive the things for very fast growing start-up services company in India.

The ideal candidate for this position will have at least 8
years of program management office (PMO)  with an ability to think tactically as well as strategically while leading cross functional teams in a matrixed environment. He is single point of contact for Delivery PMO and Process Governance. The primary goal of this candidate is to achieve benefits from standardizing and following project management policies, processes, and methods to be leveraged by multiple project owners. The candidate should have the ability to provide a decision support information for stakeholders (including executives) to make appropriate decisions. The candidate should also could underpin the project delivery mechanisms ensuring that all business change in an organization is managed in a controlled way.

Responsibilities:

• Transparency: providing information with a single source of the truth. Information should be relevant and accurate to support effective decision-making by stakeholders (including senior management).
• Reusability: stopping project teams from reinventing the wheel by being a central point for lessons learned templates and best practice.
• Delivery : making it easy for project teams to do their jobs by reducing bureaucracy, mentoring and process compliance. This includes the better coordination between two of delivery teams (One time Implementation and Managed Services) and other cross functional teams for SOP compliance and adherence.
• Governance: ensuring that communication to different stakeholders (including senior management) & decisions are taken by the right people , based on the right information presented. The governance role can also include audit or peer reviews, developing project and program structures, Standard Operating Procedures and ensuring accountability including of Information Security Management System as per ISO standards.
• Traceability: providing the function for managing documentation, project history and organizational knowledge.

• Create, Maintain and Own the PMO Delivery and Process Governance Metrics which includes Project Financials, Task and Ticket Metrics, Process KPI, Process Improvements, Delivery Governance and Excellence

Skills

• Gathering data about project progress and producing reports
• Developing standards and processes
• Encouraging (or enforcing where necessary) the use of those standards and processes
• Delivering training and mentoring Delivery and Process Governance PMO members and lead the team.
• Managing dependencies across multiple projects across delivery team

• MBA in Project/Operations/Systems/MIS or MCA Or equivalent
• 8-12 years’ experience in Service Desk/PMO environment, in a fast-paced though structured environment
• Strong Process and Agile Project Methodologies knowledge for managing multiple projects
• Superior verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Reporting on financial information such as Project Profitability, Claims and Invoicing
• Experience in working with agile lifecycle and/or tracking and process management tools, e.g. Zoho Projects & Desk or JIRA
• Identify and analyze opportunities and make tactical/strategic recommendations
• Hands on project management approach that includes a proven track record of project/program execution
• Need to have good understanding Competencies (AWS) and Industry specific foundations (ISMS, ISO 27001, GDPR) 
• Ability to quickly switch tasks, multi-task, be highly organized and detail oriented. 
• Ability to adapt communication style to effectively work with multiple levels within an organization 
• Experience preparing high visibility, executive level presentation materials 

This person MUST have:
 

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• Cloud architect with hands on development background.
• Build a collaborative relationship with different stakeholders
• Experience on React JS and Python Programming
• Exposure to Python/Django +  NodeJS + ReactJS
• Ensure and drive completions of all committed tasks and deliverables
• Run daily stand-ups and bring teams into an agile cadence of frequent iterations
• Increase team productivity by removing obstacles and keeping processes lean.
• Able to prioritise different tasks and communicate it to the different verticals of the organisation.
• Regularly assess risks and opportunities; understand best practices, drive for process improvements, and find new ways of operating,
• with a focus on simplification and productivity.
• Excellent written and oral business communication and people skills.

Experience:

• Min 7 year experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location:

• Remote 

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

Amar Chitra Katha(ACK Alive) is launching a first of its kind learning program in the country for which we are inviting applications from interested people who would want to be a part of the team. Leo & Mike is the content, curriculum and operations partner for ACK Alive. You will be working closely with the Leo & Mike team as well as the Amar Chitra Katha team, which will be a one of a kind opportunity.

Role: Program Manager (Amar Chitra Katha Project)

Job Description

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a Program Manager who can drive our programs across a maximum of 6 centers and ensure the seamless delivery of the programs in line with the organization’s objectives to the complete satisfaction of learners and their parents.

Duties/ Responsibilities:

The Program Manager will be responsible for 

• Effective implementation of program across 6 centers with regard to learner satisfaction,learning outcomes and parent satisfaction

• End to end training in content,learning system,operations and implementation

• Ensuring venue readiness in terms of room setup,material availability etc before the program starts and act as single point of contact for venue partner,parents and learners

• Coordinating kitting ,packing and transportation of materials to and from venues.

• Creating,Updating and maintaining a learner and parent database across all venues

• Creating schedules across venues and communicate the same to facilitators,parents,learners

• Rescheduling of classes at venues as required

• Observing the classrooms and documenting the observations for mentoring facilitators

• Conduct meetings with facilitators and teams to discuss the observations from classroom observation

• Collecting data/feedback from facilitators,learners,parents and classroom observations and loop it back to  Leo & Mike team for appropriate interventions in content and program improvement

• Initiating appropriate interventions wherever required with respect to learner and parent issues

• Managing the post sale communication to parents regarding the programs and communicating about learners to parents through the facilitators

     Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline

• Effective interpersonal and communication skills

• Sound knowledge on Project Management

• Proven experience to manage a team

• Problem Solving and troubleshooting skills

• A positive and proactive attitude

• Ability to take constructive feedback and work on it

• Proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications

     Details

• Compensation: Rs.40,000/- per month(6 month contract which may be extended)

• 1 paid leave per month

About Us       

ACK Alive (Amar Chitra Katha)

ACK Alive is a unique concept that brings alive the stories, the cultural learnings and the values that Amar Chitra Katha has always celebrated. The ACK Alive offers a wide range of learning programs to children that is rooted in Indian values and combined with modern skills to thrive in the 21st century. 

Amar Chitra Katha has been the first glimpse into our glorious heritage and culture for generations of Indians. Founded in 1967, today, Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) is a household name in India. Today, ACK is synonymous with the reinvention of quintessential Indian tales from the great epics, mythology, history, literature, oral folktales and many other sources.

Leo & Mike 

Leo & Mike is the content and curriculum partner for ACK Alive. Leo & Mike is a new-age learning company for 4 to 14 year old children. We create and facilitate after-school and summer camp programs where learning happens through interdisciplinary content, project-based activities and play. We work closely with parents, schools and other organizations with a similar mission while keeping children at the centre of everything that we do.