Company Profile :
We are an advanced robotics start-up headquartered in Mumbai. The company was founded in January 2015, by three IIT Bombay post-graduate on the pillars of robotics, AI and IoT.
We are the makers of the Miko series of robots designed to engage, educate and entertain kids. The robots have been designed by a diverse team comprising software and mechanical engineers, mathematicians, UI/UX designers, knowledge partners and neuropsychologists from India, South Korea and Russia.Growing to a team of over 70+ professionals and 200+ channel partners in about four years, we are an ever-expanding young and energetic organization keen on bringing new perspectives, experiences, and insights on-board. Our mission is to solve burning consumer problems with the help of robotics, AI and IoT and to humanize technology.
For further details you can also visit www.miko.ai.
Responsibilities:
- Enable operational success throughout the entire product cycle .
- Collaborate with the product team/other project managers to define scope of work, create the development schedule, identify major milestones, and estimate development budget . Facilitate requirement gathering, development, deployment, testing, and stakeholder communication.
- Create a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective. Maintaining and monitoring project plans, project schedules, work hours and velocity tracking of the project,ensuring project deadlines are met.
- Translate product requirements into tangible software deliverable tasks by discussing with the technical team .
- Manage the design process to ensure the technical design meets intended goals, drive product development, and evaluate progress against the schedule
- Lead daily standups with the technical team
- Coordinate project reviews and manage retrospectives
- Keep the big picture in focus while diving into the daily challenges facing each team . Communicate project status and key issues to stakeholders on a regular basis
- Remove barriers, drive decision-making, manage change control, and resolve conflicts due to business issues, technical issues, and resource requirements
- Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project.
- Facilitate inter team and company wide knowledge sharing sessions
- Providing administrative support as needed.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering with MBA or MCA is preferable.
- 5+ years of combined experience in development and project management, working with technical and product teams on consumer products involving backend and/or mobile technologies
- Strong technical background,project management experience in startup experience is a plus
- Solid knowledge of product development processes and deals well with rapid development cycles . Ability to learn quickly and adapt in a fast-paced environment with evolving business needs
- Solid project management experience: planning, scheduling, budgeting, project communication, issue resolution, change management, risk management, and backlog prioritization
- Excellent communication, leadership, and negotiation skills
- Experience with Gantt charts, PLMs, and JIRA or other task tracking system
- Organized, detail-oriented and data driven approach towards management
