valU is a BNPL platform that empowers customers shopping experience while ensuring convenience & ease of use.
Job DescriptionOur Software Project Manager is responsible for effectively and efficiently manage the development sprints from planning to execution to review in an agile development environment.
Responsibilities:
Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective
Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines
Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance
Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
Able to do post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity
Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program Implement and support principles, rules and processes
Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow Maintain team data in project management software (i.e. JIRA, Azure DevOps, Miro, ..etc.) to support estimates and execution
Supports product owners with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope Manage other special projects as assigned
Other duties as needed
5+ Years of experience in software project management
- BSc degree of computer science
- Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
- Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email Self-motivated, organized
- Experience in JIRA, Azure DevOps, Miro
Top Skills
What We Do
Valu is the leading lifestyle-enabling fintech platform offering customers and businesses convenient and comprehensive financial solutions.
Including U Consumer finance platform under FRA regulation licence no. 13-18/10/2020.
Under its product universe, Valu pioneered Buy-Now, Pay-Later (BNPL) solutions in the MENA region, providing customizable financing plans for up to 60 months across more than 5,000 points of sale and over 600 websites – covering a diverse array of categories, including home appliances, electronics, home finishing, furniture, residential solar solutions, healthcare, education, travel, and fashion, among others.
valU also offers investment products, an instant cash redemption program, and savings solutions through the AZ valU fund, Sha2labaz, and Akeed, respectively.
In addition, Valu offers businesses through Valu Business hassle-free HR payroll services and more. As an award-winning fintech player in the MENA region, Valu embraces a progressive mindset with an agile workforce committed to architecting innovative financial solutions.
