Senior Project Manager

About the Role

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.

Role overview

EvoluteIQ's EIQ agentic automation platform unifies process orchestration, AI/ML, RPA, Data and event-driven automation. As part of the Product Engineering team in Bengaluru, you will drive roadmap delivery and technical initiatives across backend, frontend, DevOps, QA, and platform engineering squads.

Key responsibilities

• 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 behaviors.
• 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.

Required experience and skills

• 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.

We value a range of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. We pride ourselves on our diversity and inclusive workplace that provides equal opportunities to all persons regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, disability, neurodiversity, military and/or veteran status, or any other protected classes.