Senior Project Manager

Job Summary

We are hiring a Senior Project Manager to lead end-to-end project planning and delivery of engineering initiatives on the EIQ agentic automation platform, ensuring on-time, on-budget, and high-quality releases in partnership with Product, Architecture, and Engineering leaders. This role requires hands-on project management across planning, execution, reporting, risk and change management, budget control, and people leadership in a low-code/no-code, AI-native product environment.

What youll do at EvoluteIQ

• Lead end-to-end project planning and execution for EIQ platform features and technical initiatives, defining scope, milestones, dependencies, and detailed schedules across squads.
• Own project tracking and reporting through integrated plans, dashboards, and regular status updates for engineering, product, leadership, and customer stakeholders.
• Run Agile ceremonies (backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives) and enforce SDLC and release-readiness best practices.
• Identify, analyze, and manage project risks and issues using structured RAID logs, with clear mitigation, contingency plans, and timely escalations.
• Drive structured change management for scope, timelines, and budgets with impact analysis, approvals, and transparent communication.
• Plan and manage project budgets and resource utilization, including capacity planning, allocation across squads, and optimization of internal and external resources.
• Partner with Engineering Managers to support performance management of team members, providing input to goals, feedback, and performance reviews based on delivery outcomes and behaviours.
• Coordinate with architects, engineers, DevOps, and QA to plan complex technical work, test cycles, environments, and production releases with robust rollback strategies.
• Collaborate with Customer Success, Implementation, and Support to plan hotfixes/patches and feed production learnings into future releases.
• Use AI- and automation-based project management tools (e.g., Jira/Azure DevOps with AI assistants) to improve estimation, risk prediction, and communication.
• Foster a high-performance, collaborative delivery culture through clear direction, feedback, and coaching for engineers and leads.

What will you bring to the team

• 15-20 years of experience in software product development, including 8-10 years managing multi-squad engineering projects or programs.
• Strong hands-on expertise in project planning, execution tracking, status reporting, risk and issue management, and structured change control.
• Proven Agile delivery experience across backend, frontend, QA, and DevOps teams, with a track record of shipping complex releases on time and within budget.
• Deep working knowledge of Jira, MS Project, including boards, workflows, reports, and dashboards.
• Experience with low-code/no-code, workflow automation, integration platforms, or AI/ML products is a strong plus.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with distributed teams (India, UK, US and other regions).
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Professional certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, CSM, or SAFe are desirable but not mandatory