Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Kazakhstan.

📋 Description

• Oversee projects throughout the entire delivery lifecycle, from planning and execution to release and closure.

• Ensure that project plans, timelines, milestones, and delivery trackers are accurate and current in Jira.

• Manage daily activities across Product, Engineering, QA, Business, and other stakeholders.

• Monitor deliverables and action items, follow up with responsible parties, and proactively identify delays and blockers.

• Organize project meetings by preparing agendas and materials, documenting decisions and action items, and ensuring follow-ups.

• Create project status updates, dashboards, and management reports.

• Identify and monitor risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies; maintain the RAID log and escalate delivery risks as needed.

• Track scope changes and assess their impact on timelines, resources, and commitments.

• Maintain project documentation, decision logs, and action trackers.

• Evaluate performance against milestones and key delivery metrics, including delivery predictability and time to market.

• Support project governance and established delivery processes.

• Collaborate closely with the Lead Project Manager and teams across Product, Engineering, QA, and Business.

⛳️ Requirements

• 2–3 years of experience in IT project management or delivery, focusing on software, mobile, or web projects.

• Proven experience working with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, QA, Business).

• Strong proficiency in Jira and Confluence.

• Excellent skills in project planning, scheduling, milestone tracking, and scope and change management.

• Experience with release planning, progress monitoring, issue resolution, and escalation.

• Skilled in managing risks and dependencies, along with delivery reporting and KPI tracking.

• Good grasp of the SDLC, QA, UAT, and production deployment processes.

• Basic skills in effort estimation, capacity tracking, and delivery forecasting.

• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to follow-ups.

• Problem-solving abilities, adaptability, and comfort with changing priorities.

• Capable of building positive working relationships and aligning competing stakeholder expectations.

🏝️ Benefits

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full-time.

• Vacation of 28 calendar days per year.

• 7 wellness days per year (time off).

• Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions within the company.

• 50% coverage for professional training, international conferences, and meetings.

• Corporate discount for English lessons.

• Health benefits: reimbursement of up to $1,000 gross per year per employee for self-purchased health insurance or doctor’s fees for yourself and close relatives if not eligible for corporate medical insurance.

• Well-equipped workplace and necessary equipment in offices or co-working locations.

• Reimbursement of workplace expenses up to $1,000 gross once every 3 years for co-working or home office equipment and Internet.

• Internal gamified gratitude system with bonuses that can be exchanged for merchandise, team-building activities, massage certificates, etc.