Project Manager

We Think App; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

We Think App in Bengaluru seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead agile initiatives. You will facilitate stand-ups, planning, reviews, and retrospectives, and drive sprint releases with cross-functional teams.

You will shape requirements, coordinate timelines, coach teams in Scrum/Kanban, track metrics, remove impediments, and present progress to executives. Excellent communication and a deep SDLC/Agile understanding are required.

Qualifications

• 9+ years total experience in project management.
• Proven expertise in agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban).
• Strong time estimation and planning skills.
• Excellent communicator with stakeholders and executives.
• Experience guiding cross-functional teams and removing blockers.
• Deep understanding of SDLC and agile metrics.
• Comfortable presenting to senior leadership.
• Collaborative and fast-paced environment suitability.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate daily stand-ups, iteration planning, sprint review, and retrospectives.
• Manage engineering development projects and facilitate sprint releases.
• Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines.
• Guide team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates.
• Drive team iteration execution and communicate with management and stakeholders; protect the team from unmanaged changes.
• Manage project conflicts, challenges, and dynamic requirements to keep operations high performing.
• Resolve people problems and project roadblocks with team leads.
• Perform postmortems and root cause analysis to help teams improve productivity.

Skills

Agile methodology

Scrum

Kanban

Stakeholder communication

Leadership

SDLC knowledge

Estimation & planning

Problem solving

Coaching

Tools

JIRA

Manuscript

Job description

Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospectives.

Manage engineering development projects and facilitate sprint releases.

Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines.

Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates.

Drive team iteration execution communicate with management and stakeholders, and protect the team from the uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional).

Manage project conflicts, challenges, and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance.

Work with the team leads to resolve people's problems and project roadblocks.

Able to do postmortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity.

Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program.

Implement and support principles, rules, and processes.

Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow.

Maintain team data in project management software (i.e., JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support estimates and execution

Presents high-level project readouts for senior management.

Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope.

Manage other special projects as assigned

Skills and Qualifications:

• Minimum 9+ Years of total experience
• Minimum 8+ years of project management experience
• Demonstrable expertise in agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum.
• Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
• Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules, and practices.
• Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams needs.
• Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and size stories/epics.
• Passionate commitment to delivering products on time.
• Comfortable with presenting project readouts to the Executive level audience.
• Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories, etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning.
• Ability to understand and represent both business and technology.
• Excellent communicator in person, over the phone, and through email.