Senior Project Manager

**The role**
- Tala is looking for a highly motivated Senior Technical Project Manager to manage technical projects. Tala is a world leader in providing direct loans and financial services in emerging markets. We are a global team with diverse backgrounds who are singularly focused on using technology, data, and a customer-centric approach to meet the financial needs of the 3+ billion people of the emerging global middle class.

**What You'll Do**:

- Manage project delivery using Agile practices and Tala SDLC
- Organize project plans, schedules and review meetings for project success
- Track and ensure resolution of project risks and alignment of dependencies
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement through needed process improvements and establishment and monitoring of applicable KPIs of processes and outcomes
- In collaboration with Engineering, manage resource and capacity planning
- Develop a strong understanding of context (across markets) of our internal tools to optimize for efficiency, productivity, and team morale

**What You'll Need**:

- 5+ years of Project Management experience with proven expertise in Agile Scrum & Kanban methodologies, concepts, practices, and standards
- 5+ years experience leveraging software development and team collaboration tools like JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, etc
- Proven experience managing projects for distributed teams across multiple locations.
- Familiarity with public cloud (AWS, GCP), containerization (Kubernetes), Dev Ops, SRE and InfoSec practices, mobile app development
- Practical experience with managing KPIs and using data to drive continuous improvements
- Practical experience working at high-growth company(s) with heavy virtual communications