We're Hiring! Project Manager - Bangalore
Job Title : Project Manager
Experience Level : 8+ Years
Job Location - Bengaluru (Hybrid)
Qualification
A bachelor's or master's degree in any of the following fields• Engineering• IT or Computer Science• Business Administration• Management
Job Description
We are looking for a highly organized and results-driven Project Manager to lead cross-functional teams in delivering complex projects within scope and timelines. The Project Manager will coordinate across departments and geographies, ensuring alignment through clear reporting of project status, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership and stakeholders.
This role requires strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and foster collaboration among engineering, product, operations, and external partners. Key responsibilities include escalation management, resource planning, and performance tracking, all while maintaining high standards of quality and compliance.|
Responsibilities• Track and ensure that each of the engineering teams have proper line up of projects for the upcoming quarters• Track the requirement readiness for each of the projects from the product team, escalate where necessary to ensure requirements readiness on time.• Ensure that the scrum ceremonies are happening as per the process defined.• Track and update the sprint reports on a weekly basis. Present a weekly update to management.• Meeting with project team members on a regular basis to identify and resolve issues or dependencies.• Participate in implementation planning meeting to ensure project goals are clearly defined and understood by implementation team.• Coordinating with cross-discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.• Meet SDETs team members on a weekly basis to ensure the process and quality standards are adhered to.• Configure and update the JIRA, confluence, testrails tool on request basis.• Track and share code merge pull requests to ensure required traction and approvals on timely basis.• Create and track release readiness reports to ensure project implementations are on track.• Overseeing all incoming and outgoing project documentations.• Participate in release planning activities in providing required inputs to come up with a detailed release plan.• Create change requests for configuration updates for various environments, track till closure.• Co-ordinate with the certification team by sharing weekly release plan updates.• Co-ordinate and sort conflicts between engineering and certification team.• Generate release cycle issue reports, share with the stake holders, track issues till closure.• Release GoLive co-ordination.• Obtaining customer acceptance of project deliverables where applicable.• Track project status and update executive team on regular basis.• Identify risks and come up with risk mitigation plan.• Conducting post-project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements.• Define new process and bring in process improvements where required.• Identify and facilitate new resource training programs.• Generate resources performance tracking reports on monthly basis and share it the management team.• Participate in resource hiring process.• New team formations, trainings, team workflow/process flow defining.• Motivate team members to keep the spirits high.
Must Have Skill Set• An analytical mind• Negotiation skills and the ability to develop strong working relationships• Commercial and business awareness• Good communication skills - both written and verbal• A keen eye for detail and desire to probe further into data• Effective metrics and KPI management skills with exposure to tools like Power BI, tableau etc.• Ability to stick to time constraints• Strong understanding of formal project management methodologies, especially Agile Scrum methodology• Strong working knowledge of Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project, Clarizen, JIRA etc.• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
Good to Have Skill Set
Proven working experience as a Project Manager or administrator in the information technology sector
Project Management Certification is a plus• PMP• PMI-ACP• PSM/CSM• Prince2 etc..
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Transforming the insurance industry is ambitious, we know. That’s why at Applied, we’re building a team that shows up every day ready to learn, willing to try new things, and driven to deliver innovative software and services that make us indispensable to our customers – all within a culture built on values that make us indispensable to each other, too. At Applied, we have a mission and a vision that guide us, values that anchor us, and a determination to achieve that propels us forward. We push the boundaries of innovation to solve the biggest challenges in insurance – helping us earn the title of indispensable partner from our customers.
Our teammates show up as they are, creating an authentic environment that fosters collaboration, curiosity and connections – and one that doesn’t waste time on the unnecessary confines of corporate bureaucracy or hierarchy. No matter the role or title, you have a voice at the table, space to work hard and achieve, and unending opportunities to be a great teammate.
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