Project Manager at involio

As Project Manager you’ll work with UX designers, UX researchers, QA, back-end engineers, mobile engineers, product owners, and contractors to deliver world-class products for users of the involio platform. You will take responsibility for project delivery and execution on delivering the involio platform. The role requires deep project management experience in a product organization, broad technology knowledge, and the ability to facilitate the successful delivery of products across multiple workstreams. They must have a good grasp of the basics of project management, be articulate, and the personality and experience to be the go-to person to resolve issues.

 

Individuals joining involio are passionate about building distributed systems at scale, solving cool customer and engineering problems, innovating for users and helping them achieve their goals, and doing all-around awesome stuff! Successful candidates put users' needs first, demonstrated experience of delivering projects at scale, be well-versed in agile methodologies, tools and processes, and enjoy working on a team of individuals that want to change the world!

Additionally, candidates are interested in helping recruit, mentor, and scale the mobile and web engineering team as involio grows.

involio is based out of Scottsdale, AZ and seeking employees located in the valley.

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for:

  • Orchestrating and managing work across multiple workstreams, employees, vendors, and other resources

  • Translate user needs into epics, user stories and acceptance criteria that will guide software teams on delivering the involio platform

  • Document product requirements, best practices, lessons learned

  • Identify, track and follow-up on critical path work products and deliverables

  • Balance constraints and trade-offs of time, quality, resources and budget to deliver product on-time and on budget

  • Manage the complete lifecycle of large and complex projects and have a passion for users that is demonstrated through professionalism and excellence in all aspects of the software delivery lifecycle, value streams, and customer experience

  • Effectively foster relationships with team members across workstreams and holding team members accountable for delivery

  • Be a leader by building relationships, understanding what’s happening, identifying and resolving blockers, escalating issues and being resourceful in unblocking teams to either pivot or complete their current deliverable

Minimum Requirements:

  • 3+ years experience of hands-on project management experience delivering large scale, complex projects, products and programs.

  • Excellent communications (up / down / peers)

  • Experience in supporting contractual & commercial management and execution

  • Relationship management up and down the chain of command

  • Proven track level in business domain & technical conversation

  • Experience with 1 or more project management tools including Jira, TFS, Asana, Trello, Monday.com

  • Experienced in day to day project management including staffing, milestones, cost management, and deliverables.

  • Ability to work in an Agile environment, translate user requirements, plan projects, communicate status and deliver results while keeping high quality standards.

  • Proficient English written and verbal communication skills.

Bonus Experience:

  • PMI PMP Certified Project Manager

  • BS/BA degree

  • Prior experience at a startup or similar fast-paced environment, ideally with cloud-based applications, distributed systems, B2C applications, mobile marketplaces, marketing applications, e-commerce applications.

  • Experience with billing and payment integration 

  • Experience with offline mode and semi-connected client integration scenarios

  • Enjoys investing in the financial markets 

People at involio enjoy working on a team, learning from others, checking their egos, relentlessly communicating and sharing, being resourceful, taking initiative, and contributing back as much as you learn from others. You are comfortable wearing multiple hats and getting the job done now matter how big or small. You seek feedback from others, reflect on how you can improve, use data to make decisions and hold yourself accountable. You love all aspects of software development, solving distributed scale problems, but most importantly are passionate about delivering world-class, phenomenal experiences users fall in love with.

About involio

involio is a stealth mode startup creating the next generation platform for investors. We believe investing is hard to learn and too silo'd for everyday users to maximize value from. involio will change the way the world thinks and revolves around investing.