Position: Project Manager
Company: Sigma Software
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

We believe in the power of people – goes the motto of our Swedish project developing an online marketing platform. To be more precise, it is the world’s first global booking engine for influencer marketing. Just imagine dozens of platforms worldwide; thousands of influencers and brands will benefit from your work.

JOINING THIS COMPETENT TEAM, YOU WILL GET A CHANCE TO:
- Manage a range of challenging projects
- Coordinate work of a team to maintain the entire software project lifecycle; we expect that you will be able to assure successful deliveries of projects, compile project teams, building a healthy internal environment, and manage people’s growth
- Control reporting scheme, identify possible risks and develop mitigation actions, applying the best management methodologies and practices
- Get involved in close communications with the customers and successfully manage customers’ expectations

You will participate in our Corporate Project Management processes: regular PM meetings for knowledge sharing, PM club discussions, and training. Here you will have the most impressive space for professional growth.

CUSTOMER
The customer is one of the leading Swedish product houses in the advertising technology area.
The customer company is part of the Danir Group.

PROJECT
The project assumes the development of an online marketing platform, incorporating modern architecture and design patterns to handle today and tomorrow’s requirements to performance. The solution is a full-cycle influencer marketing platform connecting brands, agencies, and influencers in one place. It is designed for a global launch and integrated with a scalable back-end.
The project is experiencing a turning point at the moment. In almost four years, the team has thoroughly analyzed the market and customer feedback, and now we are ready to implement all these changes into life. We are currently planning to complete a system that brings it to a new level of performance and makes it ready for global B2B partners – critical players in the industry.

REQUIREMENTS
2+ years of experience working on web projects
Understanding of software development life cycle
Knowledge in people management practices: coaching and mentoring, team and conflict management, team motivation, and team building
Experience in work with requirements, risk management
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Background with planning and tracking working progress
Familiarity with setting effective and transparent KPIs
Experience in communication with customers
Upper-Intermediate spoken and written English

RESPONSIBILITIES
Define project planning and estimations purpose and precision, drive estimation sessions with the team, transform estimates into timelines and project plans
Track and manage a project plan, manage expectations and deviations
Plan workload, distribute tasks between the team, make sure that work is done on schedule and within the allocated budget
Manage change requests, track their effect on the budget, inform stakeholders about any deviations promptly
Manage internal and external stakeholders through effective communication at the level required by generally applicable business standards
Support the entire Software Engineering cycle for the allocated set of projects (customer communications, requirements analysis, architecture, design, implementation, documentation, testing, deployment, maintenance)
Communicate risks to stakeholders in a transparent way, provide effective mitigation strategies
Contribute to projects lifecycle improvement through lessons learned, project archives, etc.
Create appealing and structured weekly/monthly reports
Manage project staff: tracking, coordination, and timely notification of management about the need of carrier growth of staff; avoiding and elimination of conflicts in the team