IT Project Manager

We are Agile Fuel (agilefuel.com) - a Californian IT product and outstaffing company based in the center of Kharkiv. We are focused on long-term cooperation, we invest in our people, initiatives and grow very quickly. 

Requirements:

• 3+ years of working experience as a Project/Product Manager in outsourcing company;

Upper-Intermediate level of verbal and written English;

• Experience in creating and maintaining documentation;
• Great technical background;
• Proven ability to understand the client's business needs and to transform them into technical requirements;
• Previous experience of working with foreign clients;
• Strong analytical skills and attentiveness to details;
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills;
• Excellent organizational and time management skills;
• Be flexible to change, and willing to adapt with client and team needs.

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the Head of Product to understand context and business logic behind initiatives and tickets;
• Removing blockers by addressing questions to clarify engineering tasks;
• Bridging the timezone gap between the US and UA teams by providing clarity to engineering team in a timely manner;
• Linking relevant historical tickets to gather context;
• Ensuring design tickets are properly linked to an engineering ticket;
• Adding information that would improve engineer understanding of a specific task;
• Updating engineering tickets based on discussion and consensus;
• Creating tickets based on preferred engineering conventions, reducing slippage between frontend and backend teams;
• Understanding task and project dependencies, coordinating handoffs between stakeholders (design, engineering, QA);
• Creating weekly status reports regarding open engineering tasks;
• Ensure newly built features passes user acceptance test based on understanding of ticket specifications.

We offer:

• Flexible hours;
• Working directly with the customer;
• A cozy office in the city center;
• An excellent compensation package.