Roles & Responsibilities:

Project Planning & Coordination:

- Work closely with Product Managers to understand feature requirements, business priorities, and release plans.

- Collaborate with Engineering Managers to understand resource availability and plan feature execution.

- Break down product features into executable work items and coordinate effort estimation.

- Identify project dependencies and ensure appropriate sequencing of work across teams.

Agile Project Execution:

- Create and maintain Epics, Stories, Tasks, and Sub-tasks in Jira.

- Ensure Jira is updated with accurate ownership, estimates, priorities, dependencies, and sprint assignments.

- Coordinate sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives as required.

- Monitor sprint progress and ensure deliverables remain aligned with project milestones.

Delivery Tracking & Risk Management:

- Track day-to-day project execution across multiple engineering teams.

- Identify risks, blockers, and execution challenges early and proactively drive their resolution.

- Escalate critical issues with clear impact analysis and recommended mitigation plans.

- Coordinate with Product, Engineering, QA, Platform, and DevOps teams to remove execution bottlenecks.

- Monitor release readiness and ensure all milestones are achieved before product releases.

Reporting & Stakeholder Communication:

- Prepare and publish project dashboards and status reports for Engineering Leadership.

- Provide regular visibility into project health, schedule adherence, risks, dependencies, and release readiness.

- Track action items from meetings and ensure timely closure.

- Facilitate effective communication across Product, Engineering, QA, and Leadership teams.

Process Excellence:

- Ensure engineering teams consistently follow Agile development processes.

- Track delivery metrics such as sprint predictability, backlog health, feature completion, and release progress.

- Identify recurring execution bottlenecks and recommend process improvements to improve engineering efficiency.

What You Bring:

Mandatory Skills:

- 4 to 6 years of experience in Project Management or Engineering Project Management.

- Experience managing Agile software development projects.

- Experience working with cross-functional product engineering teams.

Technical & Functional Skills:

- Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

- Good understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies.

- Strong hands-on experience with Jira, including backlog management, sprint planning, dashboards, filters, workflows, and reporting.

- Ability to create Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and manage project schedules.

- Strong understanding of software development concepts, APIs, databases, backend/frontend architecture, and cloud technologies.

- Programming awareness sufficient to understand technical discussions and engineering dependencies.

- Experience in release planning and execution tracking.

- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment.

Good To Have:

- Experience working in SaaS or Enterprise Product companies.

- Familiarity with observability, cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, or microservices.

- Experience using Confluence for project documentation.

- Basic understanding of SQL and REST APIs.

- Scrum Master or Agile certification.

Professional Attributes:

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Strong planning, coordination, and organizational abilities.

- Exceptional stakeholder management and collaboration skills.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

- Proactive mindset with the ability to identify risks and drive timely resolution.

- High attention to detail and strong execution focus.

- Ability to influence teams without direct authority.

- Self-driven, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced product environment.

- Strong ownership mindset with a passion for delivering high-quality software on time.