Technical Program Manager (m/f/d)

(Important Note - We highly prefer candidates with previous experience in project managing Data Science/Machine Learning related projects.)

Hello 👋 I am Servesh, Co-Founder and CTO of Kayzen, and I am now looking for a Technical Program Manager who will be reporting directly to me and working very closely with our Engineering & Product Team (e.g. Amar, Nishant, Heiko, Puneet) 🙌

But wait, you have not heard of Kayzen before? 😃

In short, Kayzen is a B2B SaaS platform that allows companies to reach users with video and rich media ads while they use mobile apps.
We are a 65-people international team, working flexibly across 8 different countries:
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In Kayzen, our Technical Program Manager is responsible for managing projects. They work closely with our co-founders and other team members to ensure that all project requirements, deadlines, and schedules are on track. Responsibilities include submitting project deliverables, preparing status reports, and establishing effective project communication plans as well as the proper execution of said plans.

How would I describe the engineering challenges @ Kayzen?

We have to deal with >100bn ad requests from 1bn+ unique users worldwide on a daily basis. 

This implies we have to…..

• Lead project teams of various sizes involving projects of high complexities

• Handling and managing data heavy projects

• These projects cut across various teams like data science, machine learning, engineering and product management

• 📚(If you would like to know more about our engineering and scale, read this, and this as well 😉)📚

How would I describe the culture within the engineering team?

• Collaboration 🤝- Every workday we would have a stand-up for us asking each other questions. ​You will also have a buddy at the beginning of your tenure, making sure you will be truly embedded into the team.

• Ownership 🚀 -  ❌Micro-management is NEVER our style❌

• Positivity 😄 - We will eventually find our way around the hard technical challenge. Stay relaxed, and work smart ​​ 😌

• Curiosity 💭- We think ahead. We ask “Why”. We challenge our assumptions.

• P.S. If you are around our Bangalore office, we would have lunch together every workday 🍱

This is where we need your help……

• Discuss potential projects and their parameters with internal teams, stakeholders, and developers.

• Planning out the blueprints for projects, including defining the scope, allocating resources, setting deadlines, laying out communication strategies, and indicating tests and maintenance.

• Assembling and leading the project teams.

• Tracking milestones, deliverables, and change requests.

• Preparing status reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information.

• Conducting post-project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements.

Sounds like you? 😉

• Hands-on experience with managing big-data/data-science projects

• Good working knowledge of project estimation techniques.

• Excellent technical knowledge.

• Good leadership, decision-making, and organization skills.

• Strong attention to detail and multi-tasking skills.

• Well-versed with project management and related tools.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a plus.

• Knowledge of Project management using JIRA is a plus.

• Previous experience with ad tech is a plus.

All in all - Why Kayzen? 

• We genuinely see encouraging ownership of your quality work, accelerating your career development, and keeping+hiring exceptional colleagues as the biggest perks (above everything else)

• 💰We are already profitable. So you can expect stability from the company financially, and you can enjoy the thrill of working in a start-up environment at the same time.

• Our work is driven by our own team, rather than external parties (e.g. Often start-up/scale-up companies can be heavily influenced by external parties, such as venture investors who are not deeply into the business.)

• Transparency - Day-to-day work experience with the management team and regular business updates to the team

• 😃Our Kayzenians - For instance, we did a global week of workation offsite in 2022. Check out how we were having fun here. Perhaps we will see you in the next offsite as well?🌴 

Other benefits for every Kayzenian globally 

• Competitive compensation package

• Parent-friendly company culture

• Remote-friendly company culture

• $500 home-office-equipment budget

• $1000 annual learning and development budget

Our team genuinely believes high-performance outcomes are achieved through hiring top talent and creating a productive and healthy work culture.

🤗 Hopefully the above excites you enough to apply 🤗

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 P.S. Not sure whether you should apply as you think you may not meet all the above criteria? 

• No worries, just apply for the role first 🙂 

• We encourage you to apply even if you meet only some of the points in the job description. 

• Then, we could have a chat and see if you could be suitable for the role.