The Role
The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring all projects are delivered using a 'best-practice' project delivery approach and are delivered within the agreed scope, time, cost and quality.
Deliver high-quality shippable products as per the scope of the program. He/She will understand the key requirements and scope of the project working with the Product Owner and Business stakeholders.
How You Will Make an Impact:
- Understand how the product works and how it is used by customers.
- Apply strong engineering principles to drive the development and delivery of the Hotfix and minor release. This role has the ultimate responsibility to manage customer satisfaction and team engagement.
- Technically hands-on and support and guide the team members in solutions to customers and driving the best engineering practices for developing software.
- Implement the Agile frameworks in its entirety in the capacity as a flow manager. Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles
- Establish clear ownership for project tasks, ensure that team members have the tools needed and provide timely feedback.
- Report (or contribute in preparing the status report) to the Project Steering Committee as per the schedule and agreed-upon metrics. Track progress and review project tasks to meet project deadlines.
- Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer goals.
- Timely Interaction with customers on/ off-site to troubleshoot issues, suggests workarounds.
- Should be able to guide/work with the technical team for quicker resolutions and achieve productivity goals for the team.
- Should be able to drive initiatives for productivity and ticket resolution quality improvement.
- Work on providing innovative ideas to improve ticket closure quality.
- Should suggest functionality in the platform to provide ways to improve turn around time for tickets
- Should drive and provide efficient ways for resolution/fixes of common issues across the customers.
- Propose ways to reduce overall tickets, operational efficiencies, and features for product to reduce the support tickets
- Should suggest better implementation for product based on usage on Production
- Should be able to suggest/implement the optimum process for a ticket raised to fix on PROD cycle
- Propose optimum process across departments at interfacing points, do regular ticket analysis and fine-tune the process
- Work on increasing supportability to product, Lead on RED account working with various departments/stakeholders.
- Ensuring Ticket Hygiene with Goal of SLA adherence. Problem and backlog management
- Contribute to knowledge base articles for both customer and internal staff to reduce troubleshooting time and drive faster issue resolution.
- Own large customers for day to day interactions with customers as required. Ensure SLAs are adhered to the accounts
- Ensure successful transition from SE, have regular connection with customers team management and attrition management.
People Management & Recruitment:
- Recruit and manage the team - Coach and Mentor the team members on career growth including performance management discussions. Be the evangelist for a high-performance culture
- Responsible for Resource planning & Optimization driving with utilization to timely deliverables.
- Should engage the team with team building and motivational activities.
What You Bring to the Team:
- 2-10 years of solid experience in software product development. Should be in a manager role for at least 4+ years.
- Bachelor's Degree in IT or Computers Engineering or equivalent degree in Computer Science
- Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
- Experience mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent in the technology department
- Excellent time management and organisational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
- Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams
- Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality
- Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles
- SCRUM, APM and other agile certificates will be nice to have
Technical Ability:
- Should have experience in transitioning projects (Development and Maintenance).
- Past experience in Building and Managing high-performance teams.
- Exposure to the SAP Platform
- Strong Working Experience in JIRA
- Should have prior development background along with current support role.
- Strong and proven background with experience in Troubleshooting on the Mobile platform
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: Scrum and Kanban.
- Strong orientation towards Technical and functional aspects of the product.
- Strong influencing skills and ability to prioritize the backlog.
- Understanding of customer support processes and tools.
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