Project manager
Location: GB, LND, London
Department: Product
Employment type: Contract
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Airlines/Aviation
Function: Information Technology
Company profile: Founded by serial entrepreneur Clive Jackson and launched in 2011, Victor is one of the world’s most trusted names in private jet charter. With only a 5% fee for online bookings, Victor offers the broadest selection of quotes for charter flights at the best prices directly from the operators. With access to over 700 contracted aircraft, Victor can get you airborne in less than 2 hours from almost any airport around the world on any aircraft type. We're a small and growing agile team. As a team we aspire to the hacker culture and we care about what we do. We want to produce simple, elegant solutions to difficult problems. We take pride in getting the job done right. We want to improve as individuals and improve the team and wider organisation around us.Our development team use modern technologies, tools and methods to produce a product that our customers love. We want our applications to be ubiquitous; any time someone is booking a jet they'll be using the Victor platform.We choose the best tools for the job and right now that's mostly node and Angular, with MongoDB and a smattering of Python.For vacancies for our other companies, #URL_8b5fe34131f015b09e2b4b01097392477242e0de74786a62a71e91e1e5dbfba7# and Global Beach, please click on links below:#URL_c31909b471fce3a2c3ea962a074a37e919edf78b8dfb90c4a3a9ace570542adf#http://global-#URL_c4958175db594f9b8c88259f8f6fa850085a15c4723021f19596b2a9752dc62f#
Description: We're Fly Victor, and we're revolutionising the private jet market. Think Airbnb for private jets; we're creating the marketplace that connects operators of aircraft to our members who want to fly them, and allowing them to be purchased as a whole aircraft or by seat. We've just raised £5m to take our initial application to a global scale, and you might have seen us in the Guardian, Telegraph or on Bloomberg over the last couple of weeks.We're a small and growing agile team. As a team we aspire to the hacker culture. We care about what we do. We want to produce simple, elegant solutions to difficult problems. We take pride in getting the job done right. We want to improve as individuals and improve the team and wider organisation around us. We use modern technologies, tools and methods to produce a product that our customers love. We want our applications to be ubiquitous; any time someone is booking a jet they'll be using the Victor platform.We're looking for a project manager who can help drive forward the launch of our new iOS app. This hire will be pivotal to the project, aligning the various stakeholders on a shared timetable for launch including the scheduling of different parties involvement from ideation through to user testing & launch.This is an initial three month contract role, starting end Feb, with extensions likely for the right candidate.Responsibilities:- Stakeholder management, C-level execs through to developers- Monitoring sub-contractors to ensure guidelines are maintained- Agreeing project objectives, and making sure that all project objectives are met- Organising the various professional people working on a project- Prescribing the latest IT to keep track of people and progress
Requirements: Key experience:- Running projects / programmes with budgets in the range of £500k-1m- Working with / in an agile product dev team- Launching a digital project- Aligning multiple facets of the business to a shared goalPreferred:- Knowledge of the software development life cycle- Launching & iterating on mobile applications- Working within a startup environment
Benefits: We offer an exciting challenge and an enjoyable working environment, with opportunity to grow as we do. We'll even pay you (fairly)!
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