Position: Senior Project Manager
Company: Altexsoft
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager willing to drive a new challenging project from scratch. We expect that in the first stage you will drive one project as PM, adding a couple of small projects in 6-12 months when the first project will go to a stable or maintenance mode.
If you would like to grow professionally, PM role can be transferred to another PM you hire and you will be concentrated on delivery management and your portfolio of projects. As a Delivery Manager, you will be fully responsible for delivery and account management of your portfolio of projects and team of project managers working with you.

**Required skills**
• 5+ years of commercial experience in a PM role
• Strong knowledge of project management theory
• Experience in managing distributed teams
• Experience in effective planning, execution, and delivery
• Ability to convert product features into business value and vice versa
• Ability to prioritize tasks and understand stakeholder needs
• Eagerness to learn technical aspects of the project
• Great problem-solving and diplomacy skills
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and client relationship management skills
• Ability to build strong relationships with members of development teams
• Ability to build trusted relationships with the client
• Ability to manage by KPI (develop and cascade, bring it to your team)
• English level Upper-Intermediate or higher.

**Would be a plus**
• Ability to coach and mentor PMs
• Familiarity with Automation QA services
• Technical background
Responsibilities
• Identify client’s needs and continuously improve the level of provided services
• Establish SDLC on a new project from scratch
• Build effective and friendly relations inside the team and with other departments
• Build a trustful and strong relationship with the client
• Acting as the first point of escalation for clients
• Leveraging between client and team to ensure business value and expectations are clear and the delivered solution meets them
• Develop new business opportunities with existing clients by promoting company products and services (Up-sale/cross-sale)
• Ensure the delivery happens on time and within budget
• Final decision about team composition acceptance
• Increase client and team satisfaction
• Collaborate with top management to improve project processes

**Project details**
Development of the Automation Quality Assurance strategy, building up the team to fulfill strategy steps, and reaching company development goal with QA coverage. During the project's execution PM will need to set up a process of project development with a high level of transparency, build a collaborative environment, and set up partnership relations between the remote teams involved in the project.