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Technical Project Manager

BigCommerce

Role brief

Technical Project Manager, Poland

Do you thrive at leading cross-functional teams? Have you mastered continuously improving and managing Agile software development teams and enjoy the challenge of working in a fast-paced space like e-commerce? Are you a go-getter who loves to get stuff done and passionate about delivering value to end-users? 

We’re in search of a Technical Project Manager for our to work with our global software development teams and stakeholders in product, marketing, and customer success teams. 

Our global PMO, leads projects/programs across the company, from Product Development to Marketing to Sales and everywhere in-between. You’ll be collaborating with both internal customers and external partners to help define and execute on our global roadmap.

What You’ll Do

  • Drive multiple simultaneous projects from start to finish and deliver value to our merchants on-time.
  • Manage daily activities of scope and change management, capacity planning, progress tracking, proactive risks and issues management, cross-functional/stakeholder and leadership alignment.
  • Be an Agile Coach for the team and occasionally perform Scrum Master duties including facilitating sprint planning, standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning
  • Provide cross-functional visibility into status, resourcing needs, dependencies, granular requirements, dates and escalations for projects.
  • Drive all of the cross-functional communication for a project from Kickoff through General Availability. 
  • Own the Go To Market process end-to-end and ensure all of the right stakeholders are in the loop and aware of the work expected of them.
  • Demonstrate stellar stakeholder management and executive presentation skills
  • Create and enforce cross-functional accountability across all business and technical groups & levels using soft and hard levers.
  • Collaborate with colleagues within our PMO and across all other functions.
  • Make the most of your chops to work with technical and not-so-technical counterparts.
  • Contribute to our company culture and collective intelligence. 

Who You Are

  • 3+ years experience in web technologies, a technical project manager leading medium to large software development projects
  • Project management, Agile development, process improvement/quality certifications are desired but not required (e.g. PMP, ScrumMaster, Lean or Six Sigma)
  • Must demonstrate direct experience using Agile methodologies for managing projects and coaching teams.
  • Self-driven. You have superior organizational skills, integrity and great follow-through on tasks. You don't get overwhelmed easily.
  • Naturally curious. You're innovative, extremely creative and constantly providing ideas to optimise the process.
  • Fun. You're a charismatic people person who can talk to anyone; you're flexible, fearless, and excited to help build something awesome.
  • Pragmatic. You understand the awesomeness and downfalls of Agile, waterfall, and other philosophies & methodologies - and know what to apply for each situation.
  • Motivated. You understand the impact of a highly-satisfied, excited crew; you are slightly obsessive-compulsive about grinding away at issues.
  • Positive.  You know that when like-minded, talented colleagues put their minds to achieving ambitious goals, great things happen.  You bring that positivity & attitude to everything you do.
  • Problem Solver. You use logic and imagination, to make sense of a situation and come up with an intelligent solution.
  • Scrappy.  You have an innate, scrappy and entrepreneurial drive to get things done in a fast-moving environment where things can (and do!) change quickly, priorities compete, and you may not always have all of the details upfront.  Nothing gets by you.
  • A utility player. You're willing to help out wherever needed.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent.

What's in it for you:

  • Work for an international and fast-growing Product company.
  • Work with modern technologies, cloud based and highly scalable distributed systems.
  • Be responsible for evolving and maintaining few vital components of every eCommerce platform: Catalog and Inventory Management services and related APIs
  • Become an expert in the area and provide high quality Product to the market
  • Learn from senior professionals and share knowledge, expertise and good practices to the team
  • We provide internal and external learning courses with certification possibilities and private medical insurance
  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Work remotely from Poland

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