Technical Project Manager

LotusFlare is a provider of a cloud-native digital commerce and monetization platform that simplifies technology and customer experience to deliver valuable outcomes to communications services providers.

We are looking for a Technical Project Manager to join our Belgrade team.

Job Description

As a Technical Project Manager, you play a critical role in ensuring the successful delivery of projects, which often involve complex technical integrations. You must have a strong technical project management background and excellent organization, problem-solving, and communication skills. You must also have a solid understanding of project management fundamentals and be comfortable communicating with a diverse stakeholder group, including senior leaders, both verbally and in writing. Success for any project is measured based on whether projects are completed on time and exceed customer expectations; this role will be critical to achieving that success.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that best practices and defined project management processes and standards are adhered to for assigned projects regarding scoping and planning, issue management, risk management, change management, quality management, etc.
• Establish the project plan baseline by collaboratively defining and documenting the project scope, including key milestones and dependencies. 
• Foster open communication and transparent collaboration among all team members and stakeholders.
• Monitor project progress, identify and mitigate risks, and proactively address any roadblocks.
• Assign and oversee the daily tasks of LotusFlare personnel assigned to the project while ensuring all team members are working toward established milestones.
• Conduct regular meetings to determine progress and address any challenges, issues, or questions regarding assigned projects. 
• Prepare and provide periodic updates and status reports to internal and external stakeholders. Additionally, provide data and metrics to key stakeholders.
• Be a part of a Global Delivery Team, share experiences, and develop the PM discipline within LotusFlare to improve processes, methods, and tools with creative ideas.
• Maintain and update project documentation, including project plans, risk registers, and progress reports.
• Work with the latest collaboration tools, including Jira, Confluence, Trello, etc.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, System Information, Engineering, Business Administration, or any other relevant major.
• 5+ years experience in Project Management in a technical and/or software development environment, preferably in the Telecommunications sector, with exposure to Product Engineering teams and BSS/OSS development and integration.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of foundational Project Management processes, strategies, tools, and methods.
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
• A solid foundation in service-oriented and digital technologies is required to understand service interdependencies and technical solutions for multi-tiered systems.
• Comfort and experience with cross-organizational communication; excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in delivering products against a plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, and often ambiguous environment.
• Experience working independently to design, plan, and execute technical projects.
• Able to distill data and articulate the rationale for making difficult trade-offs.
• Additional certifications, a valid PMP designation from the PMI, and/or experience as a Scrum Master using the Agile methodology are assets. 

Benefits LotusFlare provides:

• Salary package that follows your growth
• Paid lunch
• Private healthcare
• Yearly bonus
• Trainings and workshops
• Truly flexible working hours
• Mentorship

About LotusFlare

LotusFlare employees join and remain at LotusFlare for two simple reasons. First, they can see immediately that their work makes a positive impact on LotusFlare customers, and second, they grow on a personal level by developing best practices and experience in cloud-native enterprise software.  LotusFlare Founder and CEO Sam Gadodia believes that if you want to make an impact and change industries for the better, you should consider joining LotusFlare. 

LotusFlare has always been about making an impact through software products and changing industries for the better by simplifying technology so as to simplify the customer experience. Founded by the team that helped Facebook reach over one billion mobile users, LotusFlare was born out of a vision to make the mobile internet accessible and affordable to people in parts of the world who often did not have access. 

From this initial work, LotusFlare’s mission now is to design, build, and continuously advance a cloud-native digital commerce and monetization platform that simplifies technology and customer experience to deliver valuable outcomes to enterprises. This platform provides the software product foundation for the company’s main offering, the LotusFlare Digital Network Operator® Cloud. LotusFlare DNO™ Cloud is a digital commerce and monetization managed service that serves as a digital BSS to deliver valuable business outcomes for communications and media services providers.

LotusFlare looks for people all around the world who are passionate in their aim to make an impact and change industries for the better by simplifying technology. Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley with offices in EMEA and APAC, LotusFlare serves Verizon, T-Mobile, Globe Telecom, MPIC, Digi, DISH Networks, Permata Bank, Singtel, Digicel, Supercell, and other leading enterprises around the world.

LotusFlare Website and Social Media

• Website: www.lotusflare.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lotusflare
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifeatlotusflare/ 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/lotus_flare