Technical Project Manager

Job purpose:
The Technical Project Manager’s responsibility is to work effectively and efficiently manage the development sprints from planning to execution to review in an agile development environment. Your role will include running daily scrums, managing the product backlog, collaborating on requirement documentation, managing support tickets and unblocking barriers to keep the team moving. You will be responsible for communicating and collaborating primarily with the engineering, customer success and senior management teams.
The successful candidate must be capable of collaborating with cross-functional teams, demonstrate strong leadership, communication and problem-solving abilities, and have a desire to become part of a fast-growing startup company where they will have the opportunity to guide the development of our product portfolio.
Responsibilities:
- Manages daily stand-ups, iteration planning, sprint reviews, and iteration retrospectives.
- Create and analyze business requirements documents and project timelines.
- Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates.
- Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional).
- Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
- Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance.
- Manage and prepare budget based on scope of work and resource requirements
- Track project costs in order to meet budget
- Working with the team leads to resolving people problems and project roadblocks.
- Ability to conduct post mortems and root cause analyses to help teams continually improve practices to ensure maximum productivity.
- Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders
- Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program.
- Implement and support principles, rules and processes.
- Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow.
- Maintain team data in project management software like JIRA to support estimates and execution.
- Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope.

Skills and Qualifications:
- Tertiary education.
- Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc. is advantageous.
- Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment.
- Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum.
- Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
- Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and size story/epics.
- Passionate commitment to delivering products on time.
- Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audience.
- Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning.
- Ability to understand and represent both business and technology.
- Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email.
- Strong excel skills is advantageous.
- Self-motivated, organized.
Benefits:
1. We look after your wellbeing and encourage a healthy lifestyle:
We pay 100% of your medical aid (Discovery & Vitality) — so no deduction unless you want to add a beneficiary
2. We think of your future:
Retirement Annuity — up to 5% co-contribution