Project Manager – Edge AI & Connectivity Platform
Location: WFO (Pune, Hinjawadi, Phase 1)
Shift Timing: UK Shift (2:30 pm - 11:30 pm IST)
Experience: 7+ Years
Company Overview
Candidate's Responsibilities
- Coordinate project activities, resources, equipment, and information for pods
- Ensure project deadlines are met and within budget
- Communicate with stakeholders to identify and define project requirements, scope, and objectives
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and budgets
- Manage project risks and issues, and develop contingency plans as needed
- Facilitate meetings, including preparation and distribution of agenda and minutes
- Prepare and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations
- Provide direction and support to project team members
- Manage timelines and status updates efficiently and effectively
- Track dependencies across internal and external teams to ensure release readiness
- Serve as servant leader and coach for one or more cross-functional Agile teams
- Facilitate core Scrum events: sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review, and retrospective
- Remove impediments and escalate when necessary to keep delivery on track
- Coach teams on Agile practices and help the Product Owner and stakeholders optimize backlog value
- Promote continuous improvement through metrics, retrospectives, and experimentation
- Foster a collaborative, transparent, and high-trust team culture
- Support cross-team coordination and help manage dependencies
- Help teams adopt engineering and delivery best practices (e.g., incremental delivery, automation, quality checks)
Must Have / Nice to Have Skills
- Proven experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach in a Scrum environment (typically 5+ years)
- Strong facilitation skills: able to run effective ceremonies, workshops, and decision-making sessions
- Excellent servant-leadership and coaching abilities — helps teams grow rather than directs them
- Deep understanding of Agile principles and Scrum framework and how to apply them pragmatically
- Experience removing impediments and managing stakeholder expectations to enable team focus
- Strong interpersonal skills: conflict resolution, negotiation, and influencing without authority
- Strong knowledge of SDLC methodologies and Scrum
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience with Databricks project (Nice to have)