Project Manager with Fixed Price exp

About the company:

Softermii (https://www.softermii.com/) is an outsourcing/outstaffing company with more than 8 years of experience in web and mobile application development with a team of more than 120 specialists from 6 countries.

We have withstood multiple challenges, such as COVID-19 pandemic and war aggression against Ukraine, we have secured sustainable development processes, saved all our projects and jobs. Even more – we’re constantly growing.     

Every day we add new project to our portfolio in the following areas of expertise:

• Healthcare
• Real estate
• Livestream E-commerce
• Fintech (WealthTech, Capital Trading)
• Real Time Communications (RTC)

In addition, we develop 2 of our own solutions that help our customers get faster applications for video or audio calls (https://www.softermii.com/solutions/vidrtc) or an application for real estate with 3D visualization

(https://www.softermii.com/solutions/apartmii)

Company’s mission:

Softermii: Succeed Without (L) imitations

We will turn any idea into a valuable product.

Our plans as a company:

We want to move from a regular outsourcing business to an ecosystem of outsourcing, education and product development companies.

Projects: Potential projects in pre-sales. The projects can be related to the following domains: Healthcare, Real estate, Livestream, E-commerce, Fintech (WealthTech, Capital Trading), Real-Time Communications (RTC), Social Casino.

 It is possible to be involved in 2 projects at the same time.

Type of cooperation: Full-time/remote

⚡️Your responsibilities will be:

-Successfully manage fixed-price projects and work with requirements to set up development processes and drive project execution by a team of up to 7 people.

- Communicate directly with the customer to clarify priorities, align them with the team, and ensure successful project implementation.

- Facilitate communication between stakeholders, provide progress updates, gather feedback, and manage expectations to maintain alignment across the team.

- Develop and maintain project schedules based on team capacity and tasks, ensuring deadlines are met.

- Manage the project budget, considering resource costs, obligations, and expense forecasting, and ensure adherence to the budget.

- Respond to changes in project requirements or the business environment while maintaining focus on quality outcomes.

- Offer new ideas and methods to improve product efficiency, competitiveness, and overall project performance.

- Ensure the understanding of technical and budgetary constraints, proposing feasible solutions and avoiding contradictions with existing functionality.

- Document decisions and meeting minutes in a clear and concise manner.

- Facilitate team composition and selection in collaboration with Heads of Offices.

- Oversee the creation of job descriptions for new positions and make hiring decisions.

- Achieve project KPIs and align the team with the project’s objectives.

- Provide training for necessary technical and soft skills to the project team.

 -Address and solve problems related to the project team, customer, and other aspects of the project.

-Identify and capitalize on upsale opportunities with clients.

-Build and maintain strong relationships with clients.

- Continuously generate and manage a backlog of ideas for new features and future releases.

- Lead the launch of new projects, including kick-offs with clients and teams, and manage communication plans.

🗞Our requirements to you:

We are looking for a Project Manager who has experience in successfully managing fixed prices and working with requirements and had proven track of records to effectively setup development processes and drive project execution by team of up to 7 people.

- 2+ years of experience as PM in an outsourcing company. 

- Advanced English level.

-Experience with Fixed prices and in building roadmaps, charts, and reports for project visualization and management

- Knowledge and experience with Agile, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies

- Ability to use project management tools and wiki systems to organize and document information

- Strong communication skills to interact with various project stakeholders

- Data visualization skills to build mockups, wireframes, use case diagrams, prototypes, etc.

- Experience and understanding of pre-sale process

- Project scope decomposition preparation

- Project scope estimation

- Team composition - at least a high-level understanding of how to compose a team

- Strong experience of User Stories preparation, Acceptance Criteria documentation, and approval with clients

- Experience of UI/UX design review based on prepared requirements and correction of it

- Strong understanding of Business flows, processes, and purpose

- Ability to simplify solutions when the client tries to bring complex requirements for the project

- Experience with Change Requests management

- Experience with Risks management.

👨‍💻Who will you have the opportunity to meet during the hiring process (stages):
Call, HR, Tech/Final.

What we can offer you:

1. We have stable and highly-functioning processes – everyone has their own role and clear responsibilities, so decisions are made quickly and without unnecessary approvals. 
2. You will have enough independence to make decisions that can affect not only the project but also the work of the company.
3. We are a team of like-minded experts who create interesting products during working hours, and enjoy spending free time together.
4. Do you like to learn something new in your profession or do you want to improve your English? We will be happy to pay 50% of the cost of courses/conferences/speaking clubs.
5. Do you want an individual development plan? We will form one especially for you + you can count on mentoring from our seniors and leaders.
6. Do you have a friend who is currently looking for new job opportunities? Recommend them to us and get a bonus.
7. And what if you want to relax? Then we have 21 working days off.
8. What if you are feeling bad? You can take 5 sick leaves a year.
9. Do you want to volunteer? We will add you to a chat, where we can get a bulletproof vest, buy a pickup truck or send children's drawings to the front.
10. And we have the most empathetic HRs (who also volunteers!). So we are ready to support your well-being in various ways.

A little more information that you may find useful:

• our adaptation period lasts 3 months, this period of time is enough for us to understand each other better;
• there is a performance review after each year of our collaboration where we use a skills map to track your growth;
• we really have no boundaries in the truest sense of the word – we have flexible working day, remote or office is up to you.

Of course, we have a referral bonus system. So if you have a friend who likes our job opening, you can give us their telegram contact, and we in turn will thank you with a bonus if we start working with them!