Remote Project Manager

Summary

Join Azul as an Engineering Project Manager and drive excellence in release, scheduling, requirements, and tracking processes. Work closely with engineering and product management to ensure smooth execution of projects and provide transparency on progress.

Requirements

• Deeply knowledgeable in engineering project management including release cycles, bug tracking applications, reporting, and schedule forecasting
• Experience as a project and/or program manager in SaaS industry and/or a background overseeing multiple technical projects simultaneously
• A stellar skillset of collaboration, planning, influencing, prioritization, and time management
• Ability to drive data analytics and reporting of development processes
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Expert in the use of Jira, Confluence and related tools by engineering teams to accurately track software development projects
• 4+ years minimum working in a project/program management role for a software organization
• Startup / Small company experience would be benefitial
• A positive attitude around learning new skills and growing your career
• Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Work with engineering management, product owners, QA and tech leads to align release dates across multiple projects based on an agile Sprint & Ship methodology
• Help to improve our project management processes with a special focus on Agile development
• Keep a living release calendar of implementation phases / events to ensure plans can accommodate realistic schedules / avoid conflict and provide accurate reports on major activities
• Build and manage dashboards and reporting on development performance metrics, top-down and bottom-up forecasting, benchmarks, trends, and ad hoc analyses
• Use your subject matter expertise to drive processes that lead to predictable insights with the minimum necessary overhead
• Work with customer support to track escalated issues

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages
• Equity Program – be part of our success
• Generous Referral program
• Work-life balance, remote-first, paid time off, holidays, sick leaves
• Offices in Prague City Centre