Key duties and responsibilities
- Developing and ensuring execution of project plans, goals, and budgets
- Identifying resources needs, and developing and maintaining short-term and forecasted work schedules for all project resources
- Working alongside the Account Managers and Project Coordinators to ensure the successful execution of projects
- Proactively monitoring projects for significant plan and risk deviations and develop contingency/escalation plans
- Communicating and collaborating with both technical and non-technical professionals
- Facilitating and using appropriate project management processes, tools and techniques
- project documentation on accomplishments, deliverables, and milestones.
Opportunities for role growth:
- Assembling and coordinating project team members; assigning individual responsibilities
- Planning and overseeing the preparation and dissemination of project documentation on accomplishments, deliverables, and milestones against project drivers
- Contributing to team communities of practice, foster continuous improvement and sharing of best practices
Preferred skills
- Practical knowledge of project management techniques, tools, methodologies and best practices
- Great adaptability to change and flexibility in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Strong communication and negotiation skills
- Proven ability to prioritize and balance different stakeholder groups
- Practical knowledge of risk management techniques and quality assurance control
- Strong drive for action, results oriented
- Ability to coordinate and direct effective meetings with a variety of audiences
- Significant attention to detail
- Ability to handle multiple projects, and deal with changing priorities and ambiguity
- Solid organizational skills, including multitasking and time-management
Desired Qualifications
- 6 - 9 years of proven experience leading and managing multiple parallel projects of various sizes, preferably in an IT setting
- Demonstrated knowledge of project management principles and processes, from conception to delivery
- Computer proficiency in MS Office applications, along with ability to quickly learn new applications
- Hands-on experience with project management tools (e.g. Basecamp, JIRA) an asset
About Us:
SIGMOID
Sigmoid is a leading big data and analytics firm that specializes in data science and data engineering solutions around the world. Sigmoid has revolutionized the areas of business intelligence, AI and machine learning by solving diverse use cases across hi-tech industries.
With offices in San Francisco and Bangalore, the team of data scientists, engineers, designers and business strategists focus on developing specialized solutions for the customer's requirements, to help them grow their business. Sigmoid can enable the customers' engineering team to set up their infrastructure and ramp up their development timelines, or enable the analytics team to derive insights from their data.
Sigmoid's managed services includes a real-time interactive platform for advertising analytics, that gives customers like Honeywell, ironSource, and Capillary, the ability to derive instant strategic insights within a matter of seconds. It also helps optimize their processes by predicting any occurrences via its advanced artificial intelligence platform.
Sigmoid is recognized among the world's most promising and innovative tech companies, and has won several awards like the TiE50 Winners (2018) and NASSCOM Emerge 50 (2017), among others. Leading organizations across industry verticals are currently leveraging Sigmoid's expertise to create success stories.
Benefits at Sigmoid:
- Flexible work Timings
- Snacks & beverages
- Health insurance
- Monthly Celebrations
- Often Parties
- Fooseball
- XBOX
- Flex spending
- CRICKET
- Badminton Tournaments