Position: Group manager
Company: Murka
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Resource planning with efficient load balancing to achieve results in shortest terms across project teams;
- Teams capacity planning, tracking and control per Quarter basis
- Feature requirements tracking in accordance to definitions, timeliness, and fullness with next approval according to SLA and high requirement quality level;
- Risk management (definition, mitigation, escalation)
- Project roadmap definition and control
- Project release planning;
- Project status reporting to the executive management on a weekly basis. Group Manager is responsible for the relevance of the information inside reports;
- Project Delivery control with full responsibility for time & scope
- Product Quality tracking according to test strategy and test policy with all approved acceptance criteria and up to date test summary report
- Collaboration with Technical Lead to improve Technical stability of the Project
- Control execution of team agreements and company policies across all project teams
- Participate in Team’s status updates and provide actual info for his teams: what was done/ what is in progress/ blocking issues/ risks.
- Communicate with all involved parties to remove impediments on teams way;
- Play a key role and be a decision maker for Hiring process:
       - Initiate hiring positions within the Project Teams
       - Approve/decline appraisal proposals
       - Take Major Part in final Hiring/Dismissal decisions
- Allocate time and resources to learn and implement new technologies and engineering best practices of the Project
-Lead continuous improvement in the development process and engineering practices (in cooperation with Technical Leads)

NICE TO HAVE
- Technical background in Unity/C#
- Experience in Program management
- ICAgile or PMI certification is a plus

Job Description
As the Group Manager, you will be responsible for planning, controlling and improvement of the work of several cross-functional teams to deliver product in a timely manner and within defined scope.

Requirements
- 3+ years of proven working experience in project management in product or product-oriented companies
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
- Hands-on experience of Project delivery using at least one of the following methodologies (Lean, Waterfall, Kanban, SCRUM)
- Experience of work with distributed multi-lingual teams
- Experience with Software Requirements Specifications (TR, TDD)
- Solid understanding of the Client-Server Architecture in mobile applications
- Solid understanding of the Unity Mobile Games Development and deployment processes
- Basic understanding of CI/CD pipeline
- Hands-on experience in using Atlassian products (JIRA, Confluence)
- Experience in using tools: Miro, GogleDocs, or similar
- Good communication skills
- Ability to work at multiple tasks under strict deadlines
- At least an Upper-Intermediate level of English