Project Manager

Type of work: Full-time, Remote (Europe) – travel required (around 5 trips per year, up to 2 weeks each)

Requirements:

• Minimum three years management experience in the IT field, including development work and interactions with customers.

• Knowledge of software development and deployement industry standards.

• Strong communication skills to coordinate with team members, vendors and management.

• Organizational skills and time management skills to keep projects on track to the finish.

• Project managing skills to start projects and finish projects successfully.

• Experience working with cross-functional agile teams.

• Proficient use of project management software (e.g. JIRA).

• Excellent knowledge of Agile techniques and artefacts (e.g., Definition of ready/done, user stories, epics, features, backlog, splitting stories, etc).

• Experience creating proactive self-organizing teams.

• A continuous improvement attitude.

• Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills.

• Experience of delivering in an environment where multiple development teams are involved.

Nice to have:

• Professional Project Management Certification from accredited intuition.

• Professional Scrum Master Certification from accredited intuition.

• Strong written and spoken communication skills in Italian language.

• IT Technical background (Architect, Engineer, QA, ecc.) is considered a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Manages assigned technical projects to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope of project.

• Develops, maintains, and revises proposals for assigned projects including project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, timelines, funding, and staffing.

• Sets and tracks project milestones; manages and accounts for unforeseen delays, then realigns schedules and expectations as needed.

• Establishes and implements project communication plans, providing status updates to affected staff and stakeholders.

• Collects, analyzes, and summarizes information and trends as needed to prepare project status reports.

• Facilitates gathering and validation of project requirements.

• Develops and maintains project performance databases that tracks overall progress and accomplishment of specific milestones.

• Ensures all parts of an assigned projects are processed, organized, and progressing according to predetermined timelines and deliverable dates.

• Regularly communicates with customers/clients to arrange meetings, confirm project schedules, and discuss any project problems.

• Coordinates internal and external resources scheduled, ensures projects remain within scope, schedule, and defined budgets.

• Develops and communicates detailed specifications for implementation. Negotiates plans and timeframes, ensures that clients understand the anticipated results.

• Analyzes project progress and, when necessary, adapts timelines to achieve maximum benefit.

• Forecasts potential schedule delays and develops alternate plans.

• Creates and maintains comprehensive project management documentation.

• Analyzes risks and provides regular updates to Senior Management regarding projects status and any problems or potential problems. Takes proactive steps to minimize delays in delivery