About Prophecy
Prophecy is a rapidly growing startup enabling all data users to visually build data pipelines with modern software practices including code on Github using its Low-Code Data Engineering Platform.
Prophecy is trusted by top Fortune 500 firms to replace their legacy ETL tools as they re-platform to the Cloud or Apache Spark. We're very well funded, backed by top VCs, and on the path to establishing ourselves as the leader on the cloud.
Prophecy is a Core Technology and Deep-IP company with engineering centered in India. Prophecy engineers often say that they have never worked in a more productive, higher-horsepower organization in their careers. The engineers love their work, are being challenged, and are doing the best work of their careers.
Position Summary
This is an amazing opportunity to be the Project Manager based out of India in a high-growth, high-potential startup. You will be working with a team of dynamic engineers who take pride in solving complex problems.
We're seeking A players to work with A players. We're a high-growth company on a once-in-a-lifetime journey to revolutionize the way data engineering is done. Be a part of it.
Prophecy has assembled a world-class engineering team to build the Low-Code Data Engineering Platform. As a PM, your goal is to help guide and lead this team in achieving this mission. You would be responsible for several first-to-market efforts and direct revenue-generating product lines that will define the future of Prophecy.
The impact you will have
Drive the process
Write process documents such as roadmaps, delivery plans and scope documents to build delightful product shipping experiences that drastically simplify our customers' jobs
Drive the release roadmap and keep a tight grip on customer deliverables. You will be the one who is on top of things and knows about the impact of each feature/hotfix on each of our customers.
Over Achiever
In Prophecy we encourage and give environments to everyone to overachieve their own limits. Set up your own metrics, and improve them iteratively under the guidance of seniors in the team.
What You'll Need/Do
- 3+ years of experience in product delivery or engineering management
- Experience in Data Engineering puts you in front of everyone else
- Prior coding or engineering management experience will help you a lot
- Managing, planning, and charting out overall requirements, scope, schedules, and deliverables with the engineering and success team’s stakeholders.
- Work very closely with group delivery manager, development leads, QA and Product to plan and track features and releases.
- Hold the overall status of the features and versions. Communicating crucial release plans and changes
- Tracking release readiness and milestone reviews. Managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and schedules
- Communicating necessary release details using release notes to customers facing and business teams.
- Leading and coordinating checklist and deployment plan execution
- Measuring and monitoring progress to achieve timely software releases and leading lessons learned/feedback processes.
- Improve current processes and coordinate organizational procedures for optimized efficiency and productivity.
- Experience moving large cross-cutting technical or engineering programs and products from inception to delivery, articulating the impact using metrics
- Communication and interpersonal skills, including relationship building and collaboration within a diverse, cross-functional team to develop solutions
- Comfort in working in short, agile, iterative development cycles
- Write product functional requirement specifications with the rest of the product team.
- Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality
- Strong desire to work in a not well-structured, fast-moving startup environment
- You have been a top performer your entire career and have very high standards
- You have a very high sense of ownership and responsibility, with high attention to detail
- B Tech or above degree in CS or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Spark/Data Engineering
- Prior coding or engineering management
- You have shipped software over multiple releases including software where you drove the delivery of the first version
What You'll Have At Prophecy
- Great company culture.
- Competitive compensation.
- Fair and Open Equity awards for everyone.
- Amazing work.
- Private medical insurance.
- Manage your own growth and career.
- Experience building a transformative product.
- High learning opportunity.
- End-to-end ownership of your project.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Prophecy, we hire for merit and foster an inclusive culture where people from diverse backgrounds can excel and do their best work. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Prophecy are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and any other protected characteristics under applicable laws.
