Senior Project Manager

About your key responsibilities and impact:

• Managing a large project or multiple smaller projects at a time;
• Developing comprehensive project plans, outlining tasks, timelines, resource requirements, deliverables, and milestones;
• Defining project scope and objectives, ensuring alignment with client or company goals;
• Managing budget, scope, and time, using estimation techniques, quality management, change management, and team management;
• Managing project budgets and allocation of resources, handling resource management;
• Contributing to change management;

Client & Stakeholder Management:

• Collaborating with company leadership to define team backlogs and roadmaps that align with project or business objectives;
• Managing diverse assignments and difficult client situations;
• Managing expectations and client relationships, handling client and company leaders’ expectations, business units, and clients to ensure the efficient operation of our delivery processes, contributing to long-term client relationships;
• Facilitating meetings, contributing to conflict resolution, negotiating resolutions;
• Managing objections from stakeholders and the team;
• Presenting progress reports, identifying bottlenecks, and proposing solutions.

Team Leadership & Resource Management:

• Managing people (project team and team at the departmental level);
• Assembling, managing, monitoring, and motivating global, cross-unit, cross-functional project teams for high performance;
• Assigning tasks, setting clear expectations, and providing guidance to project teams;
• Tracking task fulfillment, project results, achieving project goals in high-pressure environments;
• Contributing to recruitment and onboarding of new team members.

Quality Assurance:

• Planning and managing the quality assurance process in own projects.

Risk Management:

• Performing risk assessments and developing mitigation strategies, monitoring risks;
• Identifying potential problems and risks and developing comprehensive risk management plans;
• Implementing proactive measures to mitigate risks and ensure project success;
• Continuously monitoring and assessing project risks, adapting strategies as needed;
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to address emerging risks promptly.

Communication, Presentation & Negotiation Skills:

• Facilitating meetings, contributing to conflict resolution, negotiating resolutions.

Technology:

• Facilitating requirement gathering sessions;
• Actively deploying strong SDLC principles in managed projects.

Essential professional experience:

• Taking full accountability for own technical work or project/supervisory responsibilities;
• Establishing own milestones, project team objectives, and delegating assignments; Managing project teams, leading them independently towards milestones and objectives;
• Making decisions independently, executing without assistance or supervision;
• Taking full responsibility for project team performance and results;
• Understanding strategic goals of the organization and working closely with senior management to ensure that hiring activities are aligned with business objectives;
• Managing highly complex, cross-unit, cross-functional projects, including external, client-facing projects;
• Operating with broad latitude in a complex environment;
• Having best practices in the field of project management;
• Suggesting methods to optimize and improve processes, introducing new/innovative practices and approaches, and scaling to the team;
• Anticipating internal and/or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues; recommending process, product, or service improvements;
• Advising on the available standards, methods, tools, and applications in own area of specialization and making correct choices from alternatives; Analyzing, diagnosing, designing, planning, executing, and evaluating work to time, cost, and quality targets;
• Having extensive knowledge of and best practices in project management area, and following trends;
• Passing on expertise and knowledge to the team, conducting training and presentations if necessary;
• Acting as a mentor or coach for other project managers and delivery managers, project coordinators, providing guidance and helping them develop their skills and experience;
• Contributing to the development and performance assessment of other colleagues;
• Having deep knowledge and experience in project management methodologies; Developing and conducting individual assessments to determine the knowledge, skills, and abilities of candidates; Providing training and guidance to other project managers; Contributing to the development of career paths for other project managers;
• Inspiring and leading project teams to achieve goals;
• Clearly articulating project goals, risks, and progress to stakeholders;
• Solving unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business;
• Adapting strategies based on evolving project dynamics;
• Managing conflicts and negotiating effectively to drive project success; Communicating confidently, dealing with objections, providing the right information in the communication process in a way that gets the desired result; Demonstrating excellent presentation skills, active listening skills, problem-solving skills in communication, persuasive skills, and the ability to effectively plan and organize work and teams to communicate effectively with internal stakeholders, candidates, and external consultants/services;
• Having in-depth knowledge and experience with project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Trello, MS Project, Monday, job automation tools, KPI tracking, presentation tools, G-Suite);
• Having experience in tech & software development;
• Knowing SDLC;
• Knowing or being familiar with the e-gaming industry;
• Holding project management certifications (PMP, CSM, PRINCE2, CAPM);
• Knowing project management frameworks and methodologies (Waterfall, Hybrid, Agile, SAFe, Spotify, etc.);
• Having a C1-C2 level of English;
• Being fluent in Ukrainian or Russian.