Backbase
Project Manager
We opened the doors of our Business Development Centre (BDC) in the heart of Hyderabad in December 2020. Young at heart, the BDC is a wonderful space that strengthens Backbase’s presence in the APAC region. The physical presence of great talent and support also makes way for long-term relationships with customers.
Nestled in the middle of Hyderabad, the state-of-the-art building sits amidst other global brands. The location offers stunning views of hills and lakes, while nearby there is a selection of restaurants, traditional bazaars, and other cultural hotspots.
Backbase,leading and multi award winning Fintech, continues its huge international growth winning more and more projects with its Banking and Financial services clients. As part of this rapid scaling, Project Management experts are crucial to success.
What you'll do
Senior Project Managers at Backbase provide effective coordination and communication among all the project stakeholders. In addition, they manage the relationship with Financial Services customers/partners and support and advise clients on implementing their online applications using the Backbase Solution to its full potential.
Backbase is the fastest-growing front-runner in Engagement Banking software and is experiencing explosive growth in high margin revenue, customer acquisition and headcount. With offices worldwide and partnering with over 150+ global banks we are transforming customer experience for millions of end customers. Will you help us push the envelope in the global banking industry? Just like in a scale-up you have the opportunity to make a real impact, a broad set of responsibilities and enjoy lighting fast-decision making, while our product reaches enterprise-level complexity.
Who you are
- As a Senior Project Manager, You will have multiple squads of engineers at your disposal. You will produce and maintain project estimations, plans, statements of work, and change requests. Your project teams consist of hand-picked talent that will enable you to drive value to our customers, whether in the form of a state-of-the-art solution or high-quality assessment and consultancy, all leveraging your consulting and Agile experience. Your close team may include Business Analysts, Solutions Architects and UX designers.
- You have at least eight years of Project Management experience in delivering digital projects;
- You enjoy traditional project management and know how to apply critical path method (CPM);
- You have unrivalled experience in managing "complicated" clients;
- You have experience with senior level stakeholder management in an international environment;
- You have experience in distributed and remote agile delivery;
- You ace hands on team management and your people liked your collaborative leadership style;
- You have full understanding of the web application / software development lifecycle, including UX Design;
- You pack great presenting and negotiation skills;
- You know your way around Jira, Google suite and PM tools;
- You enjoy visiting customers onsite and don't shy away to travel frequently.