Job Description

Location: Malaysia
Department: Technology:Program Management COE

Make A Real Difference at PropertyGuru.
Real Aspirations. Real People. Real impact.
PropertyGuru is Southeast Asia\xe2\x80\x99s leading PropTech company, and the preferred destination for over 41 million property seekers to connect with more than 63,000 agents monthly to find their dream home. PropertyGuru empowers property seekers with more than 3.2 million real estate listings, in-depth insights, and solutions that enable them to make confident property decisions across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam. PropertyGuru.com.sg was launched in Singapore in 2007 and since then PropertyGuru Group has made the property journey a transparent one for property seekers in Southeast Asia. In the last 15 years, PropertyGuru has grown into a high-growth PropTech company with a robust portfolio of leading property marketplaces across its core markets; award-winning mobile apps; mortgage marketplace, PropertyGuru Finance; and a host of enterprise solutions now under PropertyGuru For Business, including a high-quality developer sales enablement platform, FastKey, DataSense, ValueNet, Awards, events and publications across Asia.
Responsibilities:
As a Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for planning, leading, organizing, and motivating project teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering projects. You will be responsible for managing parallel high-impact programs using agile methods in a fast-paced environment that may cross multiple business divisions. As a Technical Program Manager, you will play different roles while:

• Leading and managing large, complex organization-level projects consisting of multiple internal and/or external teams or using functional knowledge, situation awareness, and experience in blending traditional project management principles and practices with an Agile development approach to deliver large, complex, mission-critical, enterprise-level projects with the right balance of agility and predictability.
  
• Playing a consultative role to help put in place the appropriate people, processes, and tools along with coaching team members to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of the project team.
  Acting as a scrum master for at least 3 highly dynamic agile teams that involve running all the key ceremonies & strategic initiatives.
  
• Building group program management capabilities that will help teams to be autonomous and also that could be set as an example for other departments or functions.
  Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes:
  
• Project Planning and Stakeholder Management \xe2\x80\x93 Define RACI, project scope, and timelines/milestones while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value; identify and manage project assumptions, risks & issues; monitor & manage project tasks and activities. Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with both business and IT individuals at all levels including the executive levels; drive steer-co, kick-off, and working group meetings; prepare and distribute weekly project reports; identify and manage cross-team dependencies.
  
• Scrum Master \xe2\x80\x93 Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work; leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work; mentoring and developing team members; be a servant leader.
  
• Product Owner Support \xe2\x80\x93 Support the Product Owner in grooming backlog, managing project scope, and setting customer expectations for project deliverables.
  
• Process Management and Improvement \xe2\x80\x93 Define and manage a well-defined project management process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Project Management; contribute to implementing an effective system of project governance that could be used by all departments or functions.
  
• Roadmap Planning \xe2\x80\x93 Assist the team in proper prioritization of the projects based on strategical objectives and organizational goals; monitor the execution of the same ensuring they are met.

• 8+ years of total experience as a Project/Program Manager managing large, complex projects in a high-tech development environment with multi-functional teams.
  
• 5+ years of experience with SCRUM/Agile methodologies with a proven track record of running 3 or more scrum teams in parallel or enterprise-level application development projects successfully implementing multiple software or web development projects using Agile methodologies.
  
• Solid understanding of SDLC models as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment.
  
• Experience overseeing multi-function project teams including Developers, Product Owners, Data Analysts, Designers, and QA Personnel.
  
• Sufficient level of technical background to provide credible leadership to development teams and to be able to evaluate complex project risks and issues accurately and objectively.
  
• PMP/CSM/PMI-ACP or equivalent certification is preferred, though not mandatory.
  
• Solid understanding of and demonstrated experience in using appropriate project management tools such as Jira & Confluence is a must.
  
• Flexible to adapt to fast-paced environments & multiple time zones.