Project Manager with Fixed Price exp Full Time

Summary:

• Softermii is an outsourcing/outstaffing company specializing in web and mobile application development with more than 8 years of experience.
• The company is currently growing, even during challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic and war aggression against Ukraine.
• Softermii operates in various domains, including healthcare, real estate, livestream e-commerce, fintech, and real-time communications.
• The company has developed two of its own solutions: VidRTC and ApartMii.
• The mission is to turn any idea into a valuable product and to evolve into an ecosystem of outsourcing, education, and product development companies.

Responsibilities:

• Successfully manage fixed-price projects and work with requirements to set up development processes and drive project execution by a team of up to 7 people.
• Communicate directly with the customer to clarify priorities, align them with the team, and ensure successful project implementation.
• Facilitate communication between stakeholders, provide progress updates, gather feedback, and manage expectations to maintain alignment across the team.
• Develop and maintain project schedules based on team capacity and tasks, ensuring deadlines are met.
• Manage the project budget, considering resource costs, obligations, and expense forecasting, and ensure adherence to the budget.
• Respond to changes in project requirements or the business environment while maintaining focus on quality outcomes.
• Offer new ideas and methods to improve product efficiency, competitiveness, and overall project performance.
• Ensure the understanding of technical and budgetary constraints, proposing feasible solutions and avoiding contradictions with existing functionality.
• Document decisions and meeting minutes in a clear and concise manner.
• Facilitate team composition and selection in collaboration with Heads of Offices.
• Oversee the creation of job descriptions for new positions and make hiring decisions.
• Achieve project KPIs and align the team with the project’s objectives.
• Provide training for necessary technical and soft skills to the project team.
• Address and solve problems related to the project team, customer, and other aspects of the project.
• Identify and capitalize on upsale opportunities with clients.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients.
• Continuously generate and manage a backlog of ideas for new features and future releases.
• Lead the launch of new projects, including kick-offs with clients and teams, and manage communication plans.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience as a PM in an outsourcing company.
• Experience with similar domain is must have.
• Advanced English level.
• Experience with Fixed prices and in building roadmaps, charts, and reports for project visualization and management.
• Knowledge and experience with Agile, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies.
• Ability to use project management tools and wiki systems to organize and document information.
• Strong communication skills to interact with various project stakeholders.
• Data visualization skills to build mockups, wireframes, use case diagrams, prototypes, etc.
• Experience and understanding of the pre-sale process.
• Project scope decomposition preparation.
• Project scope estimation.
• Team composition – at least a high-level understanding of how to compose a team.
• Strong experience of User Stories preparation, Acceptance Criteria documentation, and approval with clients.
• Experience of UI/UX design review based on prepared requirements and correction of it.
• Strong understanding of Business flows, processes, and purpose.
• Ability to simplify solutions when the client tries to bring complex requirements for the project.
• Experience with Change Requests management.
• Experience with Risks management.

Benefits:

• Stable and highly-functioning processes, with clear roles and responsibilities.
• Independence to make decisions affecting not only the project but the company’s work.
• A team of like-minded experts working together to create interesting products.
• Financial support for courses, conferences, or speaking clubs (50% reimbursement).
• Personalized development plans and mentoring from seniors and leaders.
• Referral bonus for recommending friends who are hired.
• 21 working days off.
• 5 sick leaves per year.
• Opportunity to volunteer, with HR support for well-being.
• Flexible working hours and remote or office work options.
• Annual performance reviews based on a skills map to track growth.
• Referral bonus system.

Tagged as: Agile Methodologies, Budget Management, Project Management, Stakeholder Communication