Position: Senior IT Project Manager
Company: Jagaad
Experience required: 3y
Category: Project Manager
English level: upper
Published: 2022-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

We're a Digital Company, fully remote and office-less. We are passionate about designing and developing cloud-based applications and scalable, performant micro-services that very often integrate with APIs.

**The Role
**

//part-time role, 20-30 hours weekly (first part of the day) 
//approx. start in Jan 2023 

As a project manager, you'll need to:


- Facilitate all estimation sessions to have the needed input for building realistic delivery schedules (Agile and Planned Iterative engagements) covering all engagement phases
- Ensure that requirements/backlog items are prioritized, and schedule is derived from business priorities
- Track progress against increment scope, key milestones, delivery dates by relying on data on the team's productivity/velocity and make progress status visible to key stakeholders
- Conduct regular impact assessments on schedule, budget, quality, team morale on any failed dependencies and renegotiate delivery dates/budgets/scope/team shape with stakeholders if applicable
- Facilitate clarifying functional & non-functional requirements for the software product
- Ensure that risk management approach is defined and followed
- Ensure that the communication needs of all involved stakeholders are clarified for all parties and addressed appropriately
- Prepare & oversee the needed level of status reporting on all levels
- Contribute to channelling the right information to the right stakeholders in the adequate format tailored to audience needs and seniority
- Practice effective stakeholder management (Practitioner level), being able to interact confidently and professionally with middle & senior-level management levels on the customer side
- Ensure code quality expectations and quality parameters are documented and clarified for all sides and are incorporated into estimates
- Own that engagement & product delivery is in sync with customer quality expectations
- Actively involve team in identifying waste in delivery and inefficiencies and owns streamlining the delivery

**Requirements**:

You'll need to have:

- 4+ years of project management experience (preferably IT) leading a team of 4+ members managing the projects' delivery on time, on budget, according to customer's specifications and desired level of quality*
- Good experience in applying Agile (mastering Agile delivery principles and frameworks) in software delivery
- Sound understanding of best practices to be used in all phases of SDLC
- Strong stakeholder management knowledge & excellent communication skills
- Systemic & critical thinking, excellent problem-solving skills
- Great scope and dependencies management
- Hands-on experience in elaborating periodic progress/ status reports aimed to drive more efficient decision making
- Strong understanding of quality management best practices in Software development cycles
- Robust knowledge and practice in applying risk management principles and best practices
- Good negotiation and conflict management skills, strong EQ
Good understanding of commercials/financials / contractual aspects of an engagement
- Strong IT background knowledge (basics of SQL, CSS, HTML, Python, Cloud)
- Upper-Intermediate English 

* We believe in the quality of skills rather than the quantity of years in a certain position. Therefore, we are open to candidates with limited experience, however – with excellent skills in project management.