OLA - Technical Program Manager - OlaMoney

Ola Financial Services:

About the Company :

OlaMoney is one of the fastest growing Fintech companies in India with an active customer base of 27 million+ customers. It is reinventing and fundamentally simplifying the customer experience for various financial products.

OlaMoney started as a wallet service provider as part of the larger Ola group but is now present in 3 additional verticals: Postpaid, Credit Card and Insurance. 

Some of our key highlights are: 

OlaMoney is India's largest postpaid/ pay later services provider. OlaMoney postpaid on Ola is 2.5X bigger than OlaMoney wallet.OlaMoney is the world's largest micro-insurer and facilitate sales of over 20M policies to customers every monthOlaMoney SBI Credit Card is the most rewarding travel credit card and the first of its kind digitally.

Role - Technical Program Manager

Location - Bangalore

Department - Engineering

Team Reporting Structure:

Role directly reports to CTO/Head of Technology

Qualification :

5+ years of experience in a software engineering role and at least 3 years of delivery management experience in product organization

Key Roles/Responsibilities :

- Drive multiple large-scale technical projects, break them down into manageable pieces and work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, software development team, business operations, marketing, legal and external partners across organization to guarantee a smooth and efficient product delivery.

- Defines and implements cross-team processes to improve efficiency and delivery (SDLC), defines metrics to measure and monitor efficiency and effectiveness of the processes and drives adoption across organization.

- Will be expected to make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-market, clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional and other project teams.

- Has the right balance of technical, project management and business/product acumen and manages delivery across SDLC serving as a single point of contact.

- Handle multiple competing and changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

- Manages stakeholders from different cross functional teams as well as Sr. Management by setting expectations and providing frequent program/project updates.

- At the heart of this role is delivery. Candidate will be hands-on in driving the delivery of critical business initiatives, managing all aspects of the project such as project planning, requirements definition, risk management, communication, and implementation planning.

- Candidate will be a technical problem solver on the team, identifying innovative solutions to project deadlocks and resolving issues and constraints through consensus and sound judgment.

Experience & Skills Required :

- 5+ years of experience in a software engineering role and at-least 3 years of delivery management experience in product organization.

- B.Tech. or higher or equivalent required.

- Certification in Project Management/ Agile is plus.

- Experience managing large scale software development projects with hands-on technical expertise to deliver projects with multiple dependencies and constraints.

- Understands the technical designs of the projects and programs he/she is managing. Has deeper understanding of specific sub-systems and possesses the ability to drive technical discussions if needed.

- Experience helping engineering teams adopt best practices.

- Strong familiarity with Agile methodologies; Has ability to think strategically and execute methodically.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. This includes excellent listening skills, concise communications and targeting the message to specific audiences

- Experienced working in a fast-paced environment where continuous innovation is desired.

- Track record for being detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow-through on projects.

- Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and key partners for the program.

- Ability to communicate effectively and establish credibility with developers, business owners, and senior business leaders.

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