About the Position

We are seeking an IT Project Manager to lead our remote team in delivering cloud-based applications and micro-services. Responsibilities include managing delivery schedules, stakeholder communication, and ensuring quality.

About Jagaad

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. For the past 2 years we worked with clients from Energy, Travel, E-commerce, and Retail companies to accelerate their ability to take advantage of new business models and market opportunities. We have more than 40 employees located in 9 countries in Belarus, Brazil, Cameroon, India, Italy, Moldova, Nigeria, Portugal, United Kingdom.

Our Values

Transparency: We trust our employees and they have trust in us! Everything is shared with the Teammates, nothing is left in the dark.
Autonomy: Each Jagaader is responsible for their own work: you decide the timing, how to set up your activities, and the best practices to achieve your personal/team goals!
Feedback: We love feedbacks, need I say more?

Responsibilities

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 team's productivity / velocity and make progress status visible to key stakeholders
Conduct regular impact assessment 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 channeling 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 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 within customer quality expectations
Actively involve team in identifying waste in delivery and inefficiencies and owns streamlining the delivery

Requirements

3+ years of project management experience (preferable 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 negotiations and conflict management skills, strong EQ
Good understanding of commercials / financials / contractual aspects of an engagement
At least minimal IT background knowledge (basics of SQL, CSS, HTML, Python, Cloud)
Conversational English and Italian

Nice to Have

PRINCE2 or PMP certification
Certified Scrum Master certification; Certified Product Owner
Strong IT related technical skills (programming & testing experience)
Domain knowledge (banking, payments, insurance)
Business Analysis skills
Understanding high level architectural solution terminology

We Offer

We value growth and education, and offer reimbursement for classes and conferences (Personal /Educational Development Days per year)
Company provides MacBook Pro
Flexible work schedule
Working from home
Private health insurance
Company sponsored trainings
English classes
Company paid Runaways (accommodation)

Location

Fully Remote

Offer type

Full Time

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IT Project Manager

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