Senior Technical Project Manager

Position Overview

• Location Type: Hybrid (HQ in San Francisco, Position based in Portugal, preferably Lisbon)
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Fluxon is a global product development company founded by ex-Googlers and startup founders. We work with fast-growing startups and tech leaders like Google, Stripe and Zapier to deliver the world’s most innovative products. Bringing together strong expertise across disciplines and industries, Fluxon offers full-cycle software development: from ideation and design to build and go-to-market.

Who We Are

Fluxon is a global product development company founded by ex-Googlers and startup founders. We work with fast-growing startups and tech leaders like Google, Stripe and Zapier to deliver the world’s most innovative products. Bringing together strong expertise across disciplines and industries, Fluxon offers full-cycle software development: from ideation and design to build and go-to-market.

Who You Are

You are a master of project management and you can lead any application from end-to-end. You can work at any company in the world, but you choose us because we’re always striving to innovate. You are brilliant, yet humble. You like working in a team, because you believe the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You have high integrity and a strong work ethic. You are organised and self-motivated and you enjoy life outside of work.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinates cross-functionally with Product and Engineers to identify / define specifications, and continuously communicate project status and needs.
• Background in using Confluence and Jira to hands-on manage projects.
• Ensures that all PM reports are accurate and are updated in a timely manner.
• Provide management visibility into project progress, while supporting effective decision-making, approvals, and direction.
• Organise and conduct periodic project reviews with key stakeholders to provide progress and plan to key milestones, manage key decisions and mitigate risks.
• Expert ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals.
• Understand the domain and know the experts to ask the right questions to prioritise and perform necessary follow-ups to resolve issues.
• Leverage past experiences to identify potential areas of improvement in project performance and sharing of best practices related to overall project management.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree required.
• Bonus: Engineering background is a bonus.
• Experience:
  • Minimum 5+ years engineering project management experience.
  • 3+ years Agile project management experience.
  • Solid experience with Agile, 1-week sprints with Program Increment planning.
  • Demonstrated ability to bring structure to ambiguous environments and relate well to people at all levels of the organisation.
  • Demonstrated experience working with global product teams and engineers.
  • Ability to understand complex technical concepts and communicate them to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to influence change outside of your span of control and build stakeholder support.
  • Strong negotiation skills and the ability to get results through formal channels and informal networking within a matrix project organisation.
  • Strong English fluency and experience working directly with Executives.