Y Media Labs - Technical Project Manager

Y Media Labs is a creative technology company that helps brands re-imagine their customer experiences. Our mission is to export the Silicon Valley mindset to the rest ofthe world.

We create digital products with purpose that have a lasting impact on users' lives andclients' businesses. We are a team of dreamers and doers united by a simple idea: If wemake a difference for your customers, we will make a difference for your business too. And it works.

Since 2009, we have led early-stage startups and top-tier brands to "wow"their customers withbest-in-class digital products and experiences. The Wall Street Journal calls us "YML is one of the most innovative companies in Silicon Valley."

Through next-generation technologies and world-class design, we help brands likeApple, PayPal, L'Oreal, Home Depot, Kaiser Permanente, State Farm, First Republic Bank etc develop solutions that drive major business outcomes. Founded in 2009, YMedia Labs is headquartered in Silicon Valley with four offices worldwide includingAtlanta, Indianapolis, Bangalore & Sao Paulo.

We came of age with the invention of the app store. We have mobile in our DNA. We create solutions across the digital ecosystem. Unlike agencies who are born desktop, we are deeply connected to how consumer perception has shifted thanks to the mobilelifestyle. We have built and launched 207 products, delighted over 407 million users, built over 200+ apps, work with 30 Fortune 500 clients, been responsible for over 400 billion transactions through our work and generated over $200 billion in transactions for our clients, and been featured on the app store over 700+ times!

- Portfolio of our work can be found @ ymedialabs.com/work

- Live look into our engineering team @ medium.com/ymedialabs-innovation

- Live look into our design team @ dribbble.com/ymedialabs

Our team in Bangalore is close to 300+ strong, and we are growing in a variety of ways. Our goals include a culture of excellence and we are looking to transform the team to be one of the best tech teams in Bangalore.

We are looking to hire multiple Project Managers at different levels for our team in Bangalore. If you are excited about building products that will be used by millions of consumers worldwide, building products for brands that you can be proud to show toyour family and friends - you need to join us!

Key Responsibilities

This role will focus on planning, directing and coordinating projects from initiation through to implementation.

- Clearly defining project roles & responsibilities, escalation paths and ownership.

- Actively participating in project scope, sizing and resource requirements.

- Facilitating scrum ceremonies with project team and establish various touchpoints with internal stakeholders and client to communicate clear status.

- Co-ordinate with global Program and Project Managers for sprint scope and overall release scope.

- Coordinating and supervising, supporting and coordinating the project team members/staff with regards to project deliverables.

- Contribute in the know-how of debriefing technical aspects of requirements and being able to explain.

- Tracking project deliveries using agile project management tools.

- Allocate and monitor SOW deliverables by:

- Scheduling tasks and tracking progress to delivery milestones.

- Adhere to process compliance in producing the release level artifacts and status sync.

- Reviewing deliverables.

- Manage Risks and Dependencies by:

- Identifying them proactively and in advance.

- Identify owner and target date for resolution.

- Arrive at resolutions through consensus.

- Tracking, managing and escalating appropriate issues in time.

- Managing the design of the project documents to monitor project performance and data stored.

- Reporting on project progress and communicate relevant information to Program Manager and leadership team.

- Contribute to team building and resolve or escalate team conflicts with engineering manager.

- Track daily progress and ensure slippages are controlled, managed and reported.

- Conduct defect triage workshops to improve on product quality.

- Co-ordinate with product owner and scrum teams in preparation for sprint planning in order to set the team for success. Document and publish sprint delivery schedules and timelines.

Manage Scope by:

- Capturing all elements in scope item, whether charging additional to the customer or not.

- Keeping a signed off Change Order document for each chargeable scopeitem.

- Focus on value delivered to the customer and constantly work with client engagement and product managers.

What we are looking for

- Preferably a BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering.

- 8+ years of overall experience with 4 years actively as Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master. Must have been a developer or QA engineer at some point in the past. No prior technical software development experience could begrounds for rejection.

- Ability to effectively interpret Technical and Business objectives from the clients' perspective as well as challenges and support the team on their deliverables.

- Prior experience directly interacting with or working with clients across the world isa must.

- Extremely strong oral and written communication skills is a must.

- Strong experience working with colleagues and stakeholders in the US.

- Must have a pleasant and polished demeanor.

- PMI PMP/ACP Certificate / Scrum Master certification is a plus.

- Deep understanding of all aspects of software development.

- Track record of championing agile practices and identifying right framework that can be adopted by agile teams.

- Experience in managing and tracking team velocity and other KPIs in relation to the project.

- Experience in risk management of complex projects.

- Experience in dealing with ambiguous and uncertain situations. Must be able to demonstrate past track record.

- Experience reporting project budgets and tracking burn.

- Experience using Rally/Jira/Azure Devops agile delivery tools.

- Proven track record of working independently and making key decisions.

- Ability to influence team members with innovative changes and improvements by challenging the status quo and demonstrating risk taking.

- Facilitate team building, roles and responsibilities and alignment workshops