Position: Project Manager
Company: Surprise
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**What will you be doing?**

• Formulating, overseeing, guiding, and promoting coordination between assigned teams to plan and develop scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and timing for new initiatives;

• Communicating, negotiating, and problem-solving with stakeholders;

• Deciding on suitable strategies and objectives;

• Leading and evaluating available resources dedicated to the project scope;

• Developing and controlling deadlines, budgets and activities;

• Applying change, risk and resource management;

• Assessing overall project performance and aim to maximize ROI/Time to market;

• Resolving higher scope project issues;

• Aligning schedules with global company roadmap and priorities in mind;

• Managing and allocating resources (fully dedicated as well as part time allocation requests and scope management);

• Analyzing, evaluating, and overcoming project risks, and producing program reports for management and stakeholders.

**What are we looking for?**

• 3+ years of proven experience as a Project Manager or other managerial position in project management;

• Thorough understanding of project/program management techniques and methods;

• Outstanding working knowledge of change management principles and performance evaluation processes

• Excellent knowledge of MS Office/Google documents; working knowledge of program/project management software (Atlassian product line including JIRA, Confluence and Advanced Roadmaps) is a strong advantage;

• Exceptional leadership, time management, facilitation, and organizational skills;

• Excellent communication skills;

• Excellent problem-solving ability;

• Full understanding of a software development life cycle and best practices;

• Solid understanding of software development processes and software architecture;

• Proven experience in defining project scope, deliverables, roles and responsibilities in collaboration with stakeholders;

• Experience in evaluating technological choices (network/hardware related and technology/code related) by querying providers and understanding enough about implications to make choices for the organization that have an appropriate balance between cost / benefit today and future implications and limitations;

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, relationship building skills and ability to achieve results without direct reporting relationships;

• Strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to present a polished, professional, and diplomatic image to all stakeholders;

• Strong sense of personal responsibility and accountability for delivering high quality work;

• Hands on experience in a role of a software engineer or software engineer in test is a plus.

**What skills will come in handy?**

• Bachelor's degree or master's degree in business, computer science or related field;

• Solid vs micro service based architectures;

• Mobile Apps software development experience;

• Scalability related issues management;

• Proven technical leadership skills;

• Proven experience in project/program/delivery management;

• Proven stakeholder management skills;

• Proven experience managing a team without authority;

• Experience using computers for a variety of tasks (automation of routine is a big plus);

• Experience at an IT product company.

**Benefits:**

• An extremely competitive salary for the local market;

• 20 working days of paid vacation;

• 15 days of paid sick leave;

• Ultramodern offices in the heart of Kyiv (BC "Gulliver");

• English classes;

• Fruits and dinners;

• And, of course, we get Surprises internally.