Program Manager

We are looking for a mature person with a high sense of ownership and good stakeholder management skills, a person who can work autonomously with a minimum level of direction, a person who enjoys contributing to improving the company's efficiency and making a difference.

We consider candidates with a background in project/program/product/team management, change/transformation management, operations, process improvement, operational excellence, org.design, various leadership roles.

✅ KPI

• Project Completion.
• Stakeholder Satisfaction.
• Program Management.

✅ Responsibilities:

✔️ Project Management

• Projects are completed with no delays or reasonable delays are agreed and confirmed in advance with the stakeholders.
• PMO guidelines are strictly followed:
• Necessary project documentation is in place and up to date (Project Brief, Weekly detailed project plan, Requirements, etc).
  • All project-related JIRA tasks are in place and up to date - initiatives, epics, bugs.
  • Weekly reporting is done.
  • Necessary project ceremonies and communications are conducted: project kick-off, weekly project sync and demos, project sign-off, handover to operations and closure.
  • Escalations, if needed, are done timely and in a proper way.
  • Use recommended tools: slack channel, confluence, JIRA, g-mail.
• Control project scope, timeline, resources, risks.
• Control your loading and proactively provide clear and justifiable information on your loading, assignments, plans, and capacity to your manager - ask load more or unload or keep the loading as is.
• Contribute to the corporate improvement/transformation projects when required (tools, processes, reporting, etc).

In addition, we expect our PMO team members to proactively suggest any type of project/process/organizational improvement they can identify themselves.

✔️ Stakeholder Satisfaction

• Clearly understand who are your stakeholders for every project and have a list of them.
• Regularly inform the stakeholders through public communication channels (slack, g-mail) about the project progress, project risks, any significant project changes.
• Facilitate decision making.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and gather stakeholder feedback.

✔️ Program Management 

• Lead dev team resource planning for your stream.
• Handle scope changes for the stream.
• Provide reporting for the stream progress.
• Support Head of Delivery in Quarter Planning.
• Be first escalation points for the project issues in the stream.

✅ Requirements:

✔️ Skills:

• Project control and execution.
• Change and stakeholder management.
• Clear communication appropriate for audience level.
• Conducting effective meetings.
• Design business processes.
• Decision-making.

✔️ Behavior:

• Be transparent, positive, open, friendly, and ready to help.
• Good sense of ownership, be proactive.
• Be quick and reliable.
• Maintain high quality of work results.
• Tolerance to changes.

✔️ Language:

• Advanced written and spoken English is required.

✔️ Experience:

Working experience in team management/project management/operational excellence or related to those areas, ideally in the software development/technology/data-related industries.

✅ We offer excellent benefits, including but not limited to:

🧑🏻‍💻 Learning and development opportunities and interesting challenging tasks; 
📝 Official employment in accordance with the laws of Cyprus and the EU, registration of family members; 
✈️ Relocation package (tickets, staying in a hotel for 2 weeks); 
🏋️‍♂️ Company fitness corner in the office for employees; 
📚 Opportunity to develop language skills and partial compensation for the cost of language classes; 
🎁 Birthday celebration present; 
🏝 Time for proper rest and 24 working days of Annual Vacation; 
🍲 Breakfasts and lunches in the office (partially paid by the company).