Project Manager

Role: Project Manager (PJM) – R&D

Location: USA 

Experience: 8–10 Years 

Focus: Product Development / Agile R&D

Important: This is NOT a traditional PMO or IT Services PM role. Candidates should have meaningful experience working inside a strong product company and partnering directly with Product and Engineering leadership.

🔥 Mandatory Skills:

✅ 8–10 Years Project Management Experience 

✅ Strong Product Company background 

✅ Agile / Scrum Delivery 

✅ Sprint Planning & Release Planning 

✅ Backlog & Capacity Management 

✅ Cross-Functional Program Management 

✅ Product + Engineering + Design + QA coordination 

✅ Risk & Issue Management 

✅ Stakeholder & Executive Communication 

✅ Release / Go-Live Management 

✅ Product Development Lifecycle 

✅ Project Roadmaps & Delivery Plans 

✅ Resource & Capacity Planning 

✅ JIRA / Confluence 

✅ Azure DevOps 

✅ Asana / Monday 

✅ Roadmap tools such as Aha! / Productboard

🎯 What You'll Do:

🔹 Own end-to-end planning and execution of R&D product initiatives 

🔹 Partner with Product Management and Engineering leadership 

🔹 Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups and retrospectives 

🔹 Track project status, risks, dependencies and blockers 

🔹 Coordinate dependencies across Product, Engineering, Design, QA and DevOps 

🔹 Drive release planning and go-live readiness 

🔹 Manage project roadmaps, documentation and delivery plans 

🔹 Support resource planning and capacity management 

🔹 Drive accountability, transparency and continuous improvement

🎯 Nice to Have:

⭐ PMP / CSM / SAFe certification 

⭐ B2B SaaS, platform or consumer product company experience 

⭐ Platform, API or infrastructure product experience 

⭐ OKRs & product-metrics-driven planning 

⭐ Experience managing distributed/offshore-onshore engineering teams