Cogniance is a global design and technology company with 500+ innovators, creators and change-builders, working hand-in-hand with both startups and corporate innovators to transform their businesses, put their customers’ needs at the center and win in their chosen markets. Building impactful futures for real people is our mantra and our craft is design-led technology solutions. We are a human-to-human company with a Silicon Valley mindset, the relentless drive of a startup and the experience of a global organization. We truly believe that any idea good enough to create a positive change in the way people live, work, think or play, deserves success.
Building on an impeccable track record, Cogniance has become the de-facto partner for start-ups and corporate innovation labs in the world’s tech hubs.
Turning great ideas into successful, mass-impact products takes a special kind of professionals. We hire the top 5% caliber crew members capable of handling complex user experience, design, and technical challenges inherent in new product development.
What we offer to our crew members is our keen attention to their long-term career progression through careful career planning, line management, mentorship, and coaching.
We’re looking for a proactive and result-oriented Project Manager to ‘own’ end-to-end cross-functional workflow from the time the contract is signed and the engagement commences till successful delivery. This is a highly visible role which spans multiple global touch-points including customers, delivery team (engineering, QA, UI, network operations) and account management.
Qualifications & Experience:
— Project Management experience, ideally Web and Mobile projects
— Experience in agile development methodologies
— Leadership and team motivation skills, decision making
— Ability to guide others through complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty
— Consulting skills, ability to elaborate ideas, explain technical concepts in simple way, convey technical visions to business people
— Experience in fixed price project management techniques and practices is highly desirable
— Upper-intermediate or advanced written and spoken English skills
— International expertise and perspective
— Technical experience is highly desirable
Educational requirements:
— MS/BS degree in Computing Sciences or equivalent is preferred. Credit will be given for candidates who do not have relevant degrees but can demonstrate equivalent work experience.
— Pre-sale negotiations and product elaborations
— Full-cycle project management from business idea to successful delivery
As part of above:
— Set correct customer expectations, hold internal contributors accountable for their deadlines & deliverables; pro-actively follow up with process participants
— Ensure quality of the process and deliverables
— Remove process bottlenecks. Escalate and resolve issues
Cogniance offers competitive and rewarding salary and benefits package, as well as intellectually & creatively stimulating work environment, flexibility, and unique international travel opportunities.