Position: Project Manager, AI Lab
Company: DRL
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: fluent
Published: 2021-05-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Required skills**
— Strong tactical planning and leadership skills.
— Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
— 3+ experience in a role of Project, Product or Delivery Manager.
— Proven track record of successful project development deliverables.
— Experience with Jira, Confluence, GitHub, GitLab, G Suite Ecosystem, and Figma.
— Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with team members located in different time zones, locations, adjusting to cultural differences.
— Ability to navigate through ambiguity, manage and coordinate multiple project assignments simultaneously in a deadline-driven environment, accepting ownership and accountability of the process, and delivering on commitments.
— Ability and motivation to complete Data Science Fundamentals or related courses curated by our team.

**Responsibilities**

As a **Project Manager**, you will manage a distributed R&D team of 5 — 7 engineers. You must ensure the smooth execution of engineering projects involving infrastructure, backend, frontend, and QA. You must also ensure effective collaboration between the Client and Ukraine-based teams.

**Project Planning & Control** — Create, maintain and report on-site project scope, schedules, and sprints. Work closely with the internal and Client teams throughout the project lifecycle from the creation of project plans to project closeout. Directly communicate with Clients and Partners about requirements gathering, demos, retrospectives, contract terms negotiations, drafting and submitting the proposal of projects’ new scope.

**Workflow** — Work with team members to establish and track milestones. Conduct pre-project planning, project handoffs, and ensure software architecture design delivery and verification. Identify and respond to project risks and high-priority issues rapidly and effectively via timely action and appropriate escalation.

**Forecasting** — Support leadership with forecasting and budgeting efforts and expectations as required. Share current project status with upstream and downstream team members, ensuring crisp and complete handoffs between teams. Plan rotations, new staffings, and participation in interviewing candidates. Track and manage project change requests.

**Learnings** — Document data points to assist with field coordination of projects. Support development of Project Management best practices and initiatives. Manage individual team members’ performance and career growth. Gather individual feedback on team members from the client and teammates.

**P.S**
If you are an ambitious person interested in self-development in AI-Powered projects and looking for new challenges — our team is excited for you to join us!

**We offer**
— 20 working days of annual vacation leave.
— Up to 50% expense coverage for specialized training.
— Working with the newest technical equipment (e.g. MacBook Pro 16″).
— Medical insurance after successful probation period completion (100% coverage, premium package).
— Work anywhere — you can work both remotely and from the office, or a hybrid model with 3 days in the office and 2 days a week from home.