R&D PMO

4Cast Decision Intelligence Platform is an AI-powered solution that provides decision support to leaders and organizations. Our platform uses advanced AI to model and simulate various scenarios, helping decision-makers explore and choose the best courses of action.

This position is a long-term maternity leave cover (year+) with potential for extension.

The R&D PMO is responsible for planning, coordinating, and monitoring development activities across the R&D department. This role ensures alignment between development efforts and business priorities, tracks progress toward release milestones, and facilitates communication between technical and non-technical teams. The R&D PMO works closely with the CTO and relevant stakeholders (development, QA, Product, Business) to manage schedules, assess risks, and support timely and high-quality software deliveries.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating development activities, schedules and resources
• Collaborating with CTO to plan R&D activities and provide weekly updates on the progress
• Measuring and monitoring progress to achieve a timely software release within defined timelines and defined quality standards 
• Communicate development tasks such as plans, timelines, requirements, etc. between different teams
• Coordinating processes between teams involved in development (within and outside R&D)
• Conducting release readiness and milestone reviews, as part of development cycles (sprints)
• Managing schedules for every core development (features/user stories) and ensuring it aligns with business goals and organizational prioritization
• Managing the development of deliverables into production environments
• Assessing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and schedules 

Qualifications

• BSc / B.Tech in Industrial Engineering & Management or other relevant field 
• +2 years of work experience in Project Management, Release Management or equivalent within R&D teams – a must
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles – a must
• Experience in working with DevOps and Agile methodologies
• Able to influence and drive projects to meet key milestones and overcome challenges
• Team player, self-driven and motivated
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Details oriented, highly organized and able to multitask
• English professional proficiency