Project Manager
Pareto Publishing, Poland

We:

We are one of the leading email marketing agencies, Pareto Publishing, a top 3 leader in online financial advertising. Feared by our competitors, adored by our clients, and attacked by the mainstream banks for our unconventional ideas...our work powers the investment decisions of 100,000s of investors in more than 100 countries.

If you want to work on cutting edge projects, this opportunity is for you. Simply put, we do what no one else in the industry does. If you're looking for something that will keep you at the top of your game, this will be your happy place.

We publish more than a dozen email investment newsletters, five different daily email ezines and we own some of the most viewed financial 'aggregator' websites. In total our work reaches around 4 million people every day.

Founded in 2011, we've been the fastest growing business in our space for the last 5 years. The key to our continued growth is the ability to attract truly exceptional employees who are completely dedicated to serving our clients.

The group of companies has a team of approx 20 members based in Europe (Malta, UK, Serbia, Ukraine, Nigeria, Poland etc) working with some of the leading Email Service Providers and enterprise-level across 5 countries.

You:

• An exceptionally intelligent, universally well-read, ambitious, tireless and fearless competitor, who is capable of quickly getting up to speed with our growing team, projects and software tools.

• Someone who can strike the balance between a good work life balance in the development team and getting things done in time, in an agile fashion
• You need to be someone with a strong sense for helping the team meet deadlines and set the tempo for team meetings and for the team work

Workflow:

• Weekly or 2-week sprints with the following meetings: Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Presentation, Demo meeting and Retrospective
• Daily stand up call where we prioritize the work for the day ahead, discuss and remove blockers
• End of Day call where we review the completed action items for the day

We use Jira for project management, Confluence for documentation and Slack for team communication.

What you will be doing:

• Managing a small team of 3-5 developers on a daily basis on product improvements and bug fixes
• Hiring 2 more developers
• Assisting with technical specifications, reviewing technical documentation, managing workload and setting up priorities for the development team
• Managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Supervising a deployment and testing processes
• Supervising a QA processes

Tech stack

• Proprietary CRM and tracking platform (PHP)
• Ongage, Iterable, Sendgrid, Sparkpost, smtp.com, etc
• Zapier
• Some databases are currently in Amazon AWS, some others are in-house
• Jira and Slack for project management and collaboration

The easy part of your job? Keeping on top of team workload, prioritizing tasks, allocating work, helping and facilitating the team follow our processes.

The hard part of your job? Keeping on top of a very fast-moving team and demanding business needs.

Recruiting Process:

All applicants will be asked to submit a form with basic details and a personality test and for those shortlisted, complete a 1-1 interview, a case study/test and a final in-person assessment centre.

We don't care wher you went to school or how good your grades were. We don't care how much experience you have, where you've worked, etc. And we don't want to see your titles, ‘Scrum’ qualifications or certificates. Either you think you can think critically and quickly take over project management for one or more of our teams, or you don't. That's all that matters.

Our Culture

1. We do what we say we're going to do
2. We have the facts and provide the full facts
3. High performance above harmony
4. Performance with purpose
5. We move fast

Our Approach

Sometimes, you will be doing a task with step by step instructions.

Sometimes, you will be solving a problem for the first so you’ll be expected to research and contact the relevant people to figure it out and get the job done.

If you like to be challenged, this is for you!

Languages? English is all that's needed (Polish language is not a requirement)

Pay / Bonuses and Benefits

Very competitive. The sky's the limit. Depending on experience, candidates should expect to earn a very competitive salary plus BONUSES. Successful candidates in similar positions have grown to earn multiples of their starting salary within a very short amount of time. After your first year, you'll have an extra bonus based on the profitability of the company and the team.

Last but not least, you get to make a differenc

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