Head of the project office

What Will You Be Working On?

• Build, maintain and optimize processes in the project managers’ team;
• Responsible for the profitability, timing, and quality of projects;
• Establish KPIs for project managers and use them to track work progress; 
• Solve problems quickly and help project managers if necessary; 
• Keep employees motivated and inspire them to achieve results; 
• Observe project managers competencies and engage in mentoring them; 
• At first, managing projects to get into the processes.

 What Does the Ideal Candidate Look Like? 

• 3+ Years of project management experience with a mobile apps’ development team;
• 1+ Year of experience as a Head of the Project Management Office;
• You are excellent in remote distributed work;
• You have at least 5 completed successful projects in your portfolio (ideally outsource projects);
• You managed software production projects, preferably in mobile development. Web and other software development are acceptable;
• System knowledge in building processes is necessary. You have your own methodology, can define and implement processes and check their quality;
• If you can show examples of process descriptions from previous jobs it will be great;
• Knowledge of the project calculations: profitability, contribution margin, direct costs, indirect costs, operating earnings;
• You are excellent in communications with decision-makers and top managers on the client-side, business owners. You have an understanding of communication features and negotiation experience. You know how to communicate competently with large clients, with ‘problem’ ones, with ‘budget’ ones, etc.

Experience needed

• Training other employees, transferring skills and knowledge to them.
• Managing сlassic team: project manager, business analyst, Android developer, iOS developer, QA engineer.
• Managing on-time and on-budget delivery of mobile projects, risk assessment, and competent resource planning.
• Leading Project Managers teams, developing processes and standards, team motivation.

Required soft-skills

• Systems thinking. 
• You like to have things all figured out. 
• Your team clearly understands what, when, and how to do, because everything is described and wrapped into the processes. 
• Ability to see the big picture and causality. 
• You can build a system in which it is impossible to make a mistake. 
• Keep everything under control and can’t let things run themselves. 
• Renew Terms of reference according to the all-projects improvements. Renegotiate terms and budgets with a client right off. 
• Solve problems in a team immediately. The process is corrected for every problem so that it never comes up again. 
• Strong desire to get things right and love the quality results of your work. 
• Charisma, empathy, love for people, and customer-centered approach. Clients love to communicate with you and feel calm even if something goes wrong on the project. 
• And your team sees you as a true leader to rely on. 
• You can sell the concept to any man alive, for example, additional features to a client or new improvements to the team. 
• You have the ability to present everything in the best possible way, without distorting the facts. 
• We are for honesty. 
• Business thinking. You understand how business works and how to communicate with clients. You may even have had your own business in the past.