Senior Project Manager

At Telenav, we believe the car is at the beginning of a massive innovation wave that mirrors what happened on the smartphone several years ago. Telenav creates world-class connected, embedded and mobile software for the world’s top automakers.

As Senior Project Manager, you will be charged with creating, leading, designing and implementing the technical vision for innovative products and services across the organization.  Working closely with Product Managers and Engineering Leads, you will leverage your deep knowledge in highly-scalable systems to design truly innovative navigation solutions for leading OEM customers to improve life on the go for millions of people around the world.

Responsibilities:

• Initiate, plan, execute and monitor your project(s) accordingly to the company defined processes
• Correctly managing scope changes
• Be an integrated part in defining and improving project management related processes (in fact, 20% of your time will be spent in this direction)
• Ensure a permanent alignment between all project(s) team members, taking into consideration the fact that your team(s) may be distributed across three continents (US, Europe, Asia)
• Closely and permanently collaborate with Telenav's internal departments (. product management)
• Execute your project(s) iteratively and incrementally ensuring a permanent alignment with the official milestones
• Help and mentor your team(s) members in correctly employing agreed frameworks (. Scrum) and in correctly using the day to day project management tools (. JIRA)
• Guide your team(s) towards a self-organizing, independent mindset
• Reporting the project status into steering committee and/or internal departments and/or external clients (three different levels of reporting, each with its own specificity)
• Build positive professional relationships with clients and associates

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years relevant work experience in project management leading software projects
• Experience managing development teams of 10+  people
• Extensive knowledge about AGILE software development processes
• Experience with bug-tracking and version control tools
• Strong skills in deadline management and ability to work in a team environment.
• Experience in working with global teams is a plus
• Experienced in mentoring junior team members is a plus
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Fluent in English

Beneficial additional skills:

• Knowledge about software development processes (automated QC efforts / Quality management, continuous integration, test driven development)
• Knowledge about business processes (strong negotiation skills, change management skills)
• Experience abroad or with foreign clients
• PM certifications

What we offer:

• An opportunity to work in a global company working on cutting edge products in a rapidly innovating industry.
• A challenging, fast paced environment working with very smart highly skilled teammates.
• An opportunity to see your products come to life in millions of automobiles.