Project Manager - Delivery Operations

Our AI-powered consumer intelligence platform delivers strategic insights for global brands such as Coca Cola, Unilever, and Bayer. We deliver in days what traditional research takes months to produce.

• 5+ years in project/delivery management in data, analytics, BI, or data products
• Advanced Jira user: building dashboards, workflows, automations, reporting, and board design
• Data fluent understanding of data lifecycle from ingestion (Social/Retail APIs) to processing (AI/ML) to visualization
• Proactive risk communication to avoid surprises
• Proven experience running recurring delivery cycles with multiple parallel workstreams
• Strong cross-functional leadership with accountability management
• Excellent written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with modern data pipelines (Databricks, lakehouse concepts) at operational level
• Startup or scale-up experience where processes are still evolving

Cycle setup (before the month starts):

• Build and maintain the full monthly delivery plan in Jira (workstreams, owners, dependencies, due dates)
• Confirm readiness including vendor data availability, pipeline schedule, resourcing, and product-specific gates
• Ensure every work item has clear acceptance criteria and a definition of done

Delivery execution (during the cycle):

• Maintain daily visibility of every in-flight deliverable (status, risks, next owner, ETA)
• Own cross-team handoffs (Data → QA → Publish) and enforce pickup SLAs
• Drive blocker resolution with documented owners and escalation within 48 hours
• Proactively manage client deadlines to avoid surprises

Quality + release governance:

• Partner with QA to enforce quality gates, triage defects, and manage rework loops
• Ensure publish readiness for Power BI / dashboard releases, including sign-off steps
• Identify systemic failure patterns and prevent recurrence

Reporting + continuous improvement:

• Provide weekly delivery report: on-time status, risks, blockers, and trends
• Conduct weekly lock-step meetings with Data Analytics leadership
• Deliver monthly retrospectives with measurable improvements

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