Project Manager

Reporting to: Senior Management

You are:

The ideal candidate gets to oversee all projects and reports directly to the company's top management. In this role, you will drive work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced, results-driven environment. You manage complex projects from inception through completion, working closely with all departments involved in delivering projects. 

You will work on:

• Work with Sales and Account Managers to translate their client promise into detailed project plans.
• Oversee progress daily across all projects in the company, working closely with delivery heads.
• Take responsibility to ensure all projects are running on time.
• Predict roadblocks and show stoppers internally (YUJ's project team) as well as externally (client team) 
• Build great relationships to get work done on both sides (YUJ and client)
• Create and own a "weekly organization-wide report" to present the performance of resource efficiency, effort burn, deadlines, identified risk, and mitigation plan for all projects.
• Work with the resource management group to coordinate staff and internal resource movements.
• Conducting time-to-time critical project reviews with the management 
• Establish a project governance approach on all strategic projects.
• Optimise and improve project management and oversee processes from time to time

You will love the role if you have:

• 5-8 years of in-depth project management experience.
• Utilised and can demonstrate industry best practices, techniques, and standards of project management of your current work 
• Manage large, diverse, and remote teams ( design & tech teams).
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Working experience with project management tools like Waterfall/Agile methods, Gantt charts, spreadsheets, and numbers for tracking.
• Strong interpersonal skills yet command over-seeing projects through life cycles and excellent analytical skills.
• Proven ability to complete projects with time to spare compared to the timelines defined.

The YUJ advantage:

YUJ Designs is a global design company committed to creating impact by design. With a dynamic team of design thinkers and innovators at its helm, YUJ has been challenging conventions and changing perceptions around UX since 2009.

Our focus is customer-centric, but our human-centred design approach encourages us to put people's needs at the core of everything we do. We take pride in our inclusive, open culture that empowers every individual at YUJ to bring their best to the table.

As we step into the future with new ideas and enthusiasm, we look forward to expanding our talent pool with proactive, passionate leaders committed to driving change. We invite you to ideate and help us build stellar UX for the world.