Lead Project Manager

About the job

Key responsibilities: • Lead project planning sessions using your expertise in agile approaches and methodologies • Work closely with developers to improve our dev ops and design highly scalable, available, and reliable CI/CD processes • Continuously identify areas of improvement and opportunities for automation in our workflow, get buy-in from all stakeholders, and implement those improvements • ... Lead and participate in removing waste, project barriers, bottlenecks and roadblocks • Assign tasks and manage projects for teams of designers and developers • Ensure that the various planning, communication and tracking tools are properly implemented and updated • Oversee quality in collaboration with the Creative Director • Be the point of escalation for conflict management, problem-solving, risk identification and developing mitigation strategies • Regular communication with all stakeholders • Contribute to recruiting new talent, as per the organisation’s needs Minimum qualifications: • Passionate about working for a social cause and making a huge difference to the lives of underprivileged kids in India and other developing countries • 7+ years of experience in the tech sector • In-depth knowledge of project operations acquired from a minimum of 3+ years in project management on large software development projects • Experience managing large projects with Agile project management principles and practices • Experience with continuous development and deployments of large-scale systems • Strong leadership skills with the ability to challenge and influence a variety of stakeholders • Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle • Excellent written and verbal English communication, and strong emotional intelligence skills • A scrappy, entrepreneurial attitude and drive that gets high-quality projects done quickly

Requirements

• Agile methodologies
• CI/CD processes
• Project management
• Stakeholder management
• Leadership skills

Preferred Technologies

• Agile methodologies
• CI/CD processes
• Project management
• Stakeholder management
• Leadership skills