JD- Program Manager

About Info Edge:

InfoEdges mission is to create world-class platforms that transform lives by continuously innovating. Our products and services are built keeping our customers in mind. We always delight our customers by delivering superior value through enhanced offerings on the internet and other platforms. Through our continuous investment across various businesses, especially in cutting-edge technology, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), we have built a robust system that constantly increases our predictive powers on customer behavior, and optimizes and improves our systems. Our various teams tirelessly work together to solve problems, innovate, and create something to empower our customers.

At Info Edge, people are our core competitive advantage and we will continue doing all that is needed to attract and retain the best available talent.

Program Manager - Role & Responsibilities

Desired candidate would be from Engineering background and possess 8 to 10 years IT experience with atleast 5 years expertise in project or program management domain.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates the ability to see cross-functional impacts of decisions in project plans during execution.
• Understands the business objectives of the program and assumes personal accountability for success of the program against those objectives
• Own the successful delivery of the Programs through effective project management to ensure Business success for the unit and the Company
• Review overall plans for the portfolio, ensuring that all project are effectively planned in terms of priorities and deliverables
• Act as Chief Scrum master for team, support in managing & executing sprint ceremonies
• Regular interaction with team members and all the functional teams on the progress
• Excellent ability to understand and document processes and workflows
• Timely reporting of status, progress, risks, metrics, dependencies, and issues for allocated portfolio
• Publish regular and ad-hoc reports from various sources - ensure the data is accurate and identify the key lead indicators
• Manage stakeholder expectations - identify and act on urgent activities/issues
• Build a positive, collaborative working environment with all Stakeholders to deliver Programs effectively
• Identify, quantify, and track issues and risks in the project
• Assess business impact of issues and risks to the Programs
• Drive effective communication of issues and risks to the client
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
• Identify, communicate, and implement continuous improvements activities
• Ability to roll-up sleeves and get into operational and delivery discussions
• Understands Engineering concepts and takes forward cross team discussions to closure

Qualifications

• Engineering
• 8-10 years experience including minimum 5 years expertise in project or program management domain
• Advanced communication and facilitation skills. Formal training preferred
• Advanced presentation skills. Demonstrated comfort in presenting to senior level cross functional audiences
• Demonstrated working knowledge of advanced concepts with program management approaches, tools and methodologies. PMP certification preferred
• Extensive experience in full life cycle of project management, including planning, budgeting, estimating
• Proven expertise as Chief Scrum master for team, support in managing & executing sprint ceremonies
• Good Knowledge of Engineering concepts and agile or project management tools viz. JIRA, Confluence, PowerBI etc
• Strong analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
• Strong aptitude and attitude for working in a Matrix organization in IC role
• Well versed with Agile methodologies i.e. SCRUM & KANBAN