Position: Project Manager
Company: Coherent Solutions
Experience required: 3y
Category: Project Manager
English level: fluent
Published: 2022-08-01T00:00:00+03:00

Using the platform, customers can accelerate their digital transformation and solve pressing IT and business challenges including multi-cloud data management, data protection, storage optimization, compliance readiness and workload portability — with no cloud vendor lock-in. Ninety-four percent of Fortune 100 companies rely on today to reveal data insights that drive competitive advantage.

**Project Description**

You can become a leader of rapidly growing team. The team is new, they’ve started the work in May and since then, they are actively growing. The plan is to build 3 teams, 7-8 people in each. Each team will have a mix of Java and Angular engineers and one embedded manual QA.

The first project phase is centered around one of the biggest product. This product is the market leader in data protection, backup, restore and disaster recovery. The goal of the first project phase is to migrate some modules of desktop to WebUI on the modern stack. The migration work is already in progress, it was started by inhouse development, lots of product modules are already fully functioning in WebUI. We will need to help them complete this migration by doing the migration and ensuring the quality of migrated functionality.

Our team is geographically distributed: inhouse developers are in US, our team is in Georgia and Poland, Ukraine etc.

Person who we are looking for will need to staff the remaining positions, build the teams, build the processes for these teams. This person will need to establish and maintain long-lasting relationship with the client. The person should become a leader for the teams ensuring their productive work, their engagement and motivation.

The project uses Jira, Confluence, Teams as primary tools for project and communication management.

**If you were the part of our team, you would have**:
- Ability to work on really huge enterprise application, their product is an enterprise solution # 1 in the world for data protection
- Great client — very responsive, open for changes
- Great opportunities for project growth and development — after lift & shift initiative there will be a new feature development in WebUI

**Job Requirements**
- 6+ years of overall experience in IT industry
- 4+ years in the Project Management in IT
- Experience in leading of multiple teams of 7+ people
- Experience in development process establishing and tuning
- Experience in outsourcing
- Experience in working with customers from USA or Western Europe
- Experience in managing full-function team (BA, Developers, QA)

**Management skills**:
· Knowledge of actual engineering practices and ability and desire to implement it
· Understanding of project scope management, including changes management
· Ability to create project plan and build the process to ensure the delivery in accordance with the plan
· Ability and desire to grow people through mentoring/coaching/trainings
· Ability to maintain strong motivation and great retention of team members
· Solid knowledge and practical experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)
· Understanding of Issues/Risk Management and mitigation planning.
· Ability and willing to measure and improve team performance and quality.
· Great communication skills and ability to identify stakeholders and establish communications with the client.
· Good presenter skills and ability to drive meetings with the client and teams.
· Knowledge of conflicts resolution approaches
· Experience in staffing

**Responsibilities**
-Setup and maintain effective long- term relationship with the client
-Build effective development processes in 3 teams
-Provide transparent and effective reporting
-Effectively manage 3 teams (~25 people) simultaneously, ensure high quality and performance of the teams
-Identify and grow leaders inside of the team (team leads/tech leads/qa leads)
-Ensure high motivation and retention of team members
-Staff remaining positions and be ready for further team growth
-Help the team to overcome blockers on the way

**What Do we offer**:
— 100+ technical and non-technical trainings to develop and expand your horizons;
— Internal meetings and conferences (we like sharing our expertise);
— English courses;
— Free medical insurance;
— Remote work option;
— 15 sick days fully compensated;
— Team sports activities, and corporate events;
— GYM compensation;
— 18 business days of paid vacation;