[Hiring] Project Manager @Commutatus

Project Manager ₹6L – ₹8L • No equity

Reality check 

These preliminary questions will let you know if you fit our requirements. 

1. Do you love freedom and flexibility in your work? 
2. Are you a good learner willing to expose yourself to various opportunities and learn something new each day? 
3. Are you interested in working with a variety of industries? 
4. Do you make an effort to put your signature on everything you do and only ship out quality work? 
5. Do you care for and manage people, earning their buy-in to carry out projects? 

If you align with all of the above, we are interested! 

Summary 

Over the past years, we've gained substantial experience in building platforms and doing it the right way. The platforms that we build now are super malleable and easy to scale. Our vision at Commutatus is to bring tomorrow closer to today, and we aspire to achieve that for more than one client at a time.

Take a look at why you should work here!

We are Commutatus. We build awesome digital products. We fight it out, day in and day out, creating a tailored product.

Commutatus partners with ambitious entrepreneurs, startups, and corporates in various industries to conceptualize, design, and build digital products. We are the team that companies like AIESEC, NADIM, and others hire to bring their ideas to life. 

Why is this role important to us?

At Commutatus, we are passionate about achieving set goals, improving processes, and solving problems efficiently.

This Project Manager role will help facilitate a valuable experience for all company members and clients by working towards set goals, improving processes and eliminating hurdles. 

What do we expect from you? 

The role is multidimensional, having strategic and operational responsibilities. It is diverse, allowing you the opportunity to showcase and improve in a multitude of skills like:

• Process optimisation
• Project planning and execution
• Leadership
• Resource management
• Partnership management
• Complex problem solving
• Negotiation
• Project financial management

At the strategic level, we expect you to:

• Maintain high efficiency in the overall project execution.
• Align with the client's business goals and translate them to the project team.
• Develop strong client relationships.
• Utilise the potential to upscale client partnerships.
• Ensure long-term profitability of projects.

At an operational level, we expect you to:

• Plan capacity and resources based on the project requirements.
• Process a requirement from its most basic raw nature into a full-blown solution with the help of the project team.
• Work with the project team to scope, plan, estimate, execute and release the project deliverables.
• Organise and lead planning, review and retro meetings with the project team.
• Communicate with the client as required.
• Maintain a clear channel of communication where all stakeholders are always informed of relevant project details.
• Organise different project spaces for documentation, communication and project execution. The tools we currently use are:
  • Notion/ClickUp for documentation
  • Slack for communication
  • Jira/ClickUp for project execution
• Support the project team by ensuring that the team's basic needs to deliver the project are always met.
• Review project progress and essential project metrics to address the impediments inferred.

As a leader, we expect you to:

• Develop a strong rapport with your project team members.
• Set clear goals and expectations with the project team members.
• Keep the team morale high in challenging times.

What do you need to have? 

We are small on credentials. We spend little time looking for an MBA or graduating from a prestigious university. We care about what you can do and how you do it, not about how you got here.

Absolute requirements:

• Open to complete remote work
• A well-functioning laptop

What we can give you:

• The freedom to learn and grow in the company.
• A safe space to explore your varied interests.
• A platform to explore and understand different domains.
• An invested interest in your well-being.
• Focus on work-life balance.
• A customised learning path for professional growth.
• Transparency about company performance and financial status.
• Weekly company-wide engagement activities to wind down the week.