Roles and Responsibilities:
- Act as Project Manager and Scrum Master in a diverse Japanese and English bilingual development team
- Define and manage project scope goals and deliverables that support business objectives in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
- Establish a communication strategy to update stakeholders on the progress of the project
- Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs
- Perform risk management to mitigate potential threats optimize opportunities and safeguard organizational objectives
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams including product managers stakeholders designers and other development teams to align goals and deliverables
- Oversee design development and testing to meet quality standards best practices and customer requirements
- Continuously improve engineering processes and tools for increased efficiency quality and overall productivity
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies (lead daily standups sprint planning sprint reviews and retrospectives)
- Identify and remove blockers that impede the development team
- Manage communication and expectations with external stakeholders keeping them informed of progress risks and issues
- Champion an agilefirst mentality building MVPs and iterating accordingly
- Foster a positive and vibrant working culture and coach members on best agile practices
Requirements
Application Requirements:
- The ideal candidate will have a robust technical project management background excellent leadership skills and a proven track record of successfully managing complex projects. This role requires a strong communicator strategic thinker with a proven growth mindset
Must have :
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering projects with at least 3 years in a leadership or managerial role
- Excellent leadership communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate a culturally diverse team
- A proven track record of managing successful projects
- Business level proficiency in both English and Japanese
Nicetohave :
- Working knowledge of agile and scrum methodologies with a focus of maximizing value output (e.g. minimum viable product)
- Professional software engineering experience
- Experience building new processes and building project teams from zero
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Act as Project Manager and Scrum Master in a diverse, Japanese and English bilingual development team
- Define and manage project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business objectives in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
- Establish a communication strategy to update stakeholders on the progress of the project
- Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs
- Perform risk management to mitigate potential threats, optimize opportunities, and safeguard organizational objectives
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, stakeholders, designers, and other development teams to align goals and deliverables
- Oversee design, development, and testing to meet quality standards, best practices, and customer requirements
- Continuously improve engineering processes and tools for increased efficiency, quality, and overall productivity
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies (lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives)
- Identify and remove blockers that impede the development team
- Manage communication and expectations with external stakeholders, keeping them informed of progress, risks, and issues
- Champion an agile-first mentality, building MVPs and iterating accordingly
- Foster a positive and vibrant working culture and coach members on best agile practices
Requirements
Application Requirements:
The ideal candidate will have a robust technical project management background, excellent leadership skills, and a proven track record of successfully managing complex projects. This role requires a strong communicator, strategic thinker, with a proven growth mindset
Must have :
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering projects, with at least 3 years in a leadership or managerial role
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a culturally diverse team
- A proven track record of managing successful projects
- Business level proficiency in both English and Japanese
Nice-to-have :
- Working knowledge of agile and scrum methodologies with a focus of maximizing value output (e.g., minimum viable product)
- Professional software engineering experience
- Experience building new processes and building project teams from zero