Senior Technical Project Manager

Job Description

Remitly's vision is to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders. Since 2011, we have been tirelessly delivering on our promises to people who send money around the world. Today, we are reimagining global financial services and building products that extend beyond traditional barriers to give customers access to more of the services they need, no matter where they call home. Join over 2,700 employees worldwide who are growing their careers with purpose and connection with our customers while having a positive impact on millions of people around the globe.

The team in Israel pushes forward and aims for the stars. We hire top talents and invest in promoting their career by providing opportunities, challenges, and a great work environment that places an important emphasis on work-life balance.

About The Role

Join a winning, innovation-driven team that plays an important role in promoting financial inclusion and equal opportunities for all. Remitly Israel (formerly Rewire) is a leading digital financial services provider for immigrants. Motivated by our vision to transform the lives of immigrants and their families by providing the most trusted financial services on the planet, we strive to create a secure financial future for international workers in Israel and their families abroad.

At Remitly, we push forward and aim for the stars. We hire top talents and invest in promoting their career by providing opportunities, challenges, and a great work environment that places an important emphasis on work-life balance.

As a technical project manager on our team, you will have the opportunity to take part in developing a cutting edge application that has a real impact on hundreds of thousands of customers' lives.

You will be responsible for planning, leading, organizing, and motivating agile project teams developing customer facing products. Defining and implementing R&D KPIs and metrics to support team's productivity and velocity improvement to assure all plans are delivered on time with high quality.

You Will

• Drive and own complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your project management expertise.
• Focus on managing projects using Agile methodologies. Embrace Agile values and principles, emphasizing iterative delivery, flexibility, and collaboration.
• Work with engineering managers to identify and manage cross-team dependencies and drive them through to closure
• Provide innovative solutions to overcome challenges and roadblocks in the development process.
• Set project schedules and technical deliverable milestones, monitor progress and work cross-functionally to ensure on-time completion of development milestones
• Implementing and managing the release process from development to testing and then finally to the production environments.
• Ensure continuous improvement across all engineering processes and methodologies
• Proactively work to improve KPIs by analyzing workflows and collecting metrics that can help quantify engineering productivity and velocity.
• Work closely with Product Managers, Developers, BA/BI and QA to consolidate all features and improvements that are being released and keep an up-to-date roadmap representation of past, current, and future releases.
• Enable collaboration and communication within the teams. Foster a self-organizing team environment, encourage cross-functional collaboration, and empower the teams to make decisions and solve problems collectively.
  
  

You Have

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering or other related field
• Minimum 5 years of experience managing technical projects in global development environments with multi-function and remote teams.
• Sufficient level of technical background to provide highly credible leadership to development teams and to be able to evaluate complex project risks and issues accurately and objectively.
• Excellent understanding of software development life cycle models as well as knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices with the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with engineering teams on complex technology programs with Agile development methodologies
• Creative approach to problem-solving with the ability to focus on details while maintaining the "big picture" view.
• Can-do approach, ability to work independently, learn and move fast, and build very strong work relationships
• Detail-oriented and thorough; you're a proactive self-starter who is able to effectively juggle multiple deliverables and projects in a highly fluid work environment
• A strong executor, get the job done while keeping the big picture firmly in mind
• Master and drive tools management and administration (e.g. Jira)
• Excellent writing and verbal communication and presentation skills with high proficiency in English
  
  

Equal employment opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Remitly. We are committed to nondiscrimination across our global organization and in all of our business operations. Employment is determined based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender identification and expression, marital status, military status or status as an honorably discharge/veteran, pregnancy (including a woman's potential to get pregnant, pregnancy-related conditions, and childbearing), sexual orientation, age (40 and over), national origin, ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical, mental, or sensory disability (including the use of a trained dog guide or service animal), HIV/AIDS or hepatitis C status, genetic information, status as an actual or perceived victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or any other protected class as established by law.

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Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.