Technical Project Manager

工作内容

Nexxiot is a TradeTech pioneer with a mission to enable easier, safer and cleaner transportation for all stakeholders in the global supply chain. Nexxiot’s IoT hardware, software, and analytics create transparency to improve efficiency and preserve value across supply networks. The technology mitigates risks to people, infrastructure, and cargo and reduces emissions and waste.

The company empowers carriers, cargo owners, and other transportation participants to monitor the location, status, and conditions of their assets and cargo in real-time, anywhere in the world. Sophisticated Big Data analytics delivers business intelligence at scale to drive efficiency, process automation, and achieve sustainability targets.

Headquartered in Zurich, Nexxiot operates throughout Europe and the U.S., with an international team of employees from 29 countries.

For more information, visit www.nexxiot.com

We are looking for a highly motivated Technical Project Manager who is ready to take ownership of a growing product end-to-end. If you are passionate about the SaaS platforms, Big Data, Machine Learning, Global Scale Supply Chains challenges, and joining a great company culture, this is the right position for you.

Your main areas of accountability:

As a Technical Project Manager, your job will be to actively engage with talented engineers across frontend, backend, embedded firmware and hardware domains. In close partnership with engineering, product and other cross-functional teams, this person will identify technical problem statements, create technical roadmaps, scope programs aligning them with research outcomes and business priorities, define milestones and success metrics, and drive them to completion by aligning and leading cross-functional teams.

• Build strong and aligned program teams to efficiently deliver on shared goals.
• Collaborate with Engineering and business owners to define program requirements, set priorities, and establish scope which includes defining the roadmap and long-term strategy of the teams that you are partnering with.
• Develop and own communication plans to effectively and proactively communicate program status, issues, and risks to stakeholders.
• Manage cross functional dependencies, risks, and changes effectively by optimizing scope, schedule, and resources accordingly.
• Partner with cross functional teams to drive technical analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post implementation phases.
• Define and track key metrics and key quality and performance indicators and drive cross functional execution of program deliverables.
• Influence product decisions to align with higher company initiatives.
• Drive internal and external process improvements across multiple teams and functions including reducing the manual efforts through automation.
• Collaborate with Engineering and business owners to define program requirements, set priorities, and establish scope which includes defining the roadmap and long-term strategy of the teams that you are partnering with.
• Develop and own communication plans to effectively and proactively communicate program status, issues, and risks to stakeholders.
• Manage cross functional dependencies, risks, and changes effectively by optimizing scope, schedule, and resources accordingly.
• Partner with cross functional teams to drive technical analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post implementation phases.
• Define and track key metrics and key quality and performance indicators and drive cross functional execution of program deliverables.
• Influence product decisions to align with higher company initiatives.
• Drive internal and external process improvements across multiple teams and functions including reducing the manual efforts through automation.
  
  

Desired qualifications:

• Strong organizational skills with proven record of E2E delivery of complex products.
• B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, Electronics, Embedded Design or equivalent experience.
• Experience in software engineering, systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management experience.
• 5+ years of experience delivering tech programs or products from inception to delivery. Knowledge of user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope.
• Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership.
• Communication experience and experience working with technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products.
• Organizational coordination experience and experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones.
• Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems.
  
  

This role is designed to be based in Zurich, Switzerland hence it would be great if you are eligible to live and work in CH.

What We Offer

• Flexibility: We have a hybrid working model which will provide you flexible office days and working hours.
• Work Life Balance: We offer 25 days’ paid leave.
• Sustenance: Coffee, tea, water, fruit and nuts, snacks and fridges usually stocked with delicious smoothies – all free of charge.
• Public transport: After completion of your probation period we offer a subsidized monthly subscription for public transport in Zurich.
  
  

Additional Information

We invite you to apply for this position regardless of your age, gender, nationality, religion, orientation, ethnicity or whatever you might think hold you back as we believe in and celebrate diversity. Only by accepting everyone as they are, can we be at our best!

Our Values

• Contribute Actively
• Be Transparent - do not BS
• Promote Mutual Respect
• Keep Cool and Have Fun
• Fail Forward
• Think and Act as an Entrepreneur
  
  

Sounds like a match? We look forward reviewing your application (CV with max. 3 pages in PDF)!

Please only send CVs in English.

We will not consider CVs from agencies.