A bit about us
WeatherBug, a division of GroundTruth, empowers people to plan their day thanks to hyperlocal weather forecasts. With 10+ million monthly users, our app and website are favorites on the App Store and Google Play Store. We use a vast network of weather observations and innovative technology to give you real-time forecasts, alerts, and insights. Our team is passionate about enhancing user experiences and always looks for new ways to use weather data to make a difference. Join us at WeatherBug and help people stay informed and prepared for whatever the weather brings. Let's make it happen together!
Learn more: www.weatherbug.com
At GroundTruth, we believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and we have been ranked one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work for three years in a row (2021, 2022 & 2023). Learn more about the perks of joining our team here.
Position: Senior Project Manager
Location: Gurgaon OR Remote
*This role requires Core Work Hours from 8:30 pm to 12:30 am IST (will change as per daylight saving in US). The remaining hours are completed at individual discretion.*
The Senior Project Manager is an experienced, senior level project management professional with experience coordinating and delivering complex technical products and solutions in their specific functional area. The Senior Project Manager collaborates with their Product, Design and Engineering peers to own the delivery lifecycle of WeatherBug product initiatives. They will be closely engaged with the execution teams and actively participate with oversight on scheduling, management of dependencies, and orchestration of cross-functional engineering teams to successfully launch new products and solutions. They are strong communicators, comfortable in technical conversations, and take ownership of decisions informed by constraints in time, scope, budget, and staffing resources.
You will:
- Work in close partnership with Product Management, Design, and Engineering to deliver complex technical products and solutions;
- Own and orchestrate work breakdown, sequencing, task assignment, and scheduling of multiple work streams required for delivery of those initiatives;
- Organize and maintain a calendar with dependencies to keep engineering teams unblocked and on schedule;
- Coordinate cross-functionally to manage dependencies with Product Managers and Engineering teams;
- Own detail-level design deliverables (in close partnership with our Design team) to provide functional specs for development;
- Take ownership of value engineering initiatives to deliver cost-conscious solutions;
- Iterate on existing solutions to provide continued maintenance/monitoring of key products;
- Manage customer beta periods and lead rollouts for successful delivery;
- Facilitate meetings such as Backlog Refinement and Sprint Planning
You have:
A Bachelors or Masters degree with 10+ years of experience managing large, enterprise-level projects in mobile and web software development. Advanced degree, PMP certification, or relevant experience in Project Management, Agile/Scrum, and/or Team Leadership are a plus.
- Demonstrated positive business impact by delivering projects on time and on budget;
- Successfully worked across multiple engineering teams to deliver cross-functional products and solutions;
- Actively collaborated with business stakeholders to scope large-scale product deliveries.
- Experience working in a global, remote-first environment and managing distributed teams is a plus.
- Proficiency with tools like Jira, Confluence, Gantt chart, and other project management and collaboration tools is highly desirable.
- Experience with data-driven consumer applications is a strong plus.
- Strong understanding of customer-centric design and delivery, with experience managing consumer-facing products.
You are:
- An organized and detail-oriented team player;
- Technically adept, and comfortable working with engineering teams to design, scope, and deliver sophisticated products and solutions;
- A strong communicator who can collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders and find compromises and solutions;
- A detail-oriented person, working with multiple teams to propose and build solutions that add value to the business;
- A problem solver with a maker mindset.
- Success will be measured by timely delivery of projects, adherence to budgets, and stakeholder satisfaction.
What we offer:
At Weatherbug, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.
- Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity
- Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays).
- In Office Daily Catered Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks and Beverages
- Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents
- Covid home quarantine cover
- Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines
- Wellness/Gym Reimbursement
- Pet Expense Reimbursement
- Childcare Expenses and reimbursements
- Employee assistance program
- Employee referral program
- Education reimbursement program
- Skill development program
- Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)
- Internet reimbursement
- Birthday treat reimbursement
- Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as VPF and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic
- Creche reimbursement
- Co-working space reimbursement
- NPS employer match
- Meal card for tax benefit
- Special benefits on salary account
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity, inclusion and equity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
