Senior Project Manager

Summary

Join WeatherBug, a division of GroundTruth, as a Senior Project Manager and contribute to the delivery of complex technical products and solutions for our popular weather app and website. This senior-level role requires collaboration with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to manage the entire product lifecycle. You will be responsible for work breakdown, scheduling, dependency management, and cross-functional team coordination. The ideal candidate possesses a Bachelor's or Master's degree with 10+ years of experience in managing large-scale projects in mobile and web software development. The position offers a flexible work arrangement (Gurgaon or Remote) and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• A Bachelors or Masters degree with 10+ years of experience managing large, enterprise-level projects in mobile and web software development
• Demonstrated positive business impact by delivering projects on time and on budget
• Successfully worked across multiple engineering teams to deliver cross-functional products and solutions
• Actively collaborated with business stakeholders to scope large-scale product deliveries

Responsibilities

• Work in close partnership with Product Management, Design, and Engineering to deliver complex technical products and solutions
• Own and orchestrate work breakdown, sequencing, task assignment, and scheduling of multiple work streams required for delivery of those initiatives
• Organize and maintain a calendar with dependencies to keep engineering teams unblocked and on schedule
• Coordinate cross-functionally to manage dependencies with Product Managers and Engineering teams
• Own detail-level design deliverables (in close partnership with our Design team) to provide functional specs for development
• Take ownership of value engineering initiatives to deliver cost-conscious solutions
• Iterate on existing solutions to provide continued maintenance/monitoring of key products
• Manage customer beta periods and lead rollouts for successful delivery
• Facilitate meetings such as Backlog Refinement and Sprint Planning

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree, PMP certification, or relevant experience in Project Management, Agile/Scrum, and/or Team Leadership
• Experience working in a global, remote-first environment and managing distributed teams
• Proficiency with tools like Jira, Confluence, Gantt chart, and other project management and collaboration tools
• Experience with data-driven consumer applications
• Strong understanding of customer-centric design and delivery, with experience managing consumer-facing products
• An organized and detail-oriented team player
• Technically adept, and comfortable working with engineering teams to design, scope, and deliver sophisticated products and solutions
• A strong communicator who can collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders and find compromises and solutions
• A detail-oriented person, working with multiple teams to propose and build solutions that add value to the business
• A problem solver with a maker mindset

Benefits

• Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity
• Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays)
• In Office Daily Catered Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks and Beverages
• Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents
• Covid home quarantine cover
• Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines
• Wellness/Gym Reimbursement
• Pet Expense Reimbursement
• Childcare Expenses and reimbursements
• Employee assistance program
• Employee referral program
• Education reimbursement program
• Skill development program
• Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)
• Internet reimbursement
• Birthday treat reimbursement
• Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as VPF and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic
• Creche reimbursement
• Co-working space reimbursement
• NPS employer match
• Meal card for tax benefit
• Special benefits on salary account