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Head of Project Management
3 years ago
Arkadium is seeking a collaborative and solutions-oriented Head of Project Management to lead our team. This is an exciting opportunity to manage high impact projects on a multi-discipline team. If you are passionate about mobilizing teams in order to hit milestones and thrive on collaboration, then we would love to hear from you!
This is a remote position but when all covid related restrictions are cancelled we expect the new hire to be able to visit our Krasnodar office at least once a quarter.
Hiring manager is based in NY so please submit your CV application in English.
Responsibilities:
- Champion agile software development practices
- Facilitate communication between product teams, product owners and stakeholders
- Plan and consistently deliver against project schedules, communicate milestones, identify production risks or constraints, and troubleshoot dependencies
- Deliver project status updates with key metrics for product leadership on a regular basis
- Actively optimize and improve software production processes by introducing best practices and tools to drive teams’ efficiency
- Stay aware of the industry standards, both in terms of methodology and quality
- Facilitate discussion of project milestones between the development team and Product Owner
- Track the development speed against Product roadmaps to ensure that team is hitting the target milestones
- Cultivate relationships with key partners at the organization to enable efficient development and coordination of projects
- Mentor and professionally develop a team of motivated Project Managers and Scrum Masters
Requirements
- You will be working directly with the product leadership team in New York, so an advanced level of verbal and written English is required
- Deep knowledge of and passion for Agile/Scrum, Kanban and ability to apply it
- 5+ years of project/team management, ideally in a Games company and/or experience with Subscription models and Microtransactions
- Experience with both traditional and Agile software development methodologies, understanding the applicability of each
- Experience with task trackers, enterprise-level software management tools
- Experience working in an internationally distributed multicultural company
- Ability to organize thoughts and deliver them both verbally and in writing in a way that is understandable both to technical and non-technical audiences
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work with others in pursuit of a common goal
- Solutions oriented leader with a track record of inspiring teams towards success
Benefits
- Health Insurance with heavily subsidized medical, dental & vision plans starting on day one
- Performance-based annual bonuses
- A good balance between work and personal life
- Additional paid days off
- Budget for personal development
- A focus on professional growth through internal classes, access to professional conferences, and specialized training and certification to industry standards
- Company-paid English courses
- Relocation bonus to the candidates willing to relocate to Krasnodar
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