WE ARE

Mabuhay! We’re looking for a Project Manager to join our team in the Philippines.

Adaptive is a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions, using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in Manila, London, New York, Barcelona and Montreal, we have a proven track record delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

Our Project Managers at Adaptive are leaders who set an example for Adaptive’s culture and values. Most importantly, our Project Managers give the teams the autonomy they require in their role to be motivated and grow professionally.

We are now looking for a PM to join our Philippines team on a new exciting project!

If you feel like this is you, you might be a perfect fit for this role!

YOU ARE

A strategic thinker with great communication skills
A great relationship builder with your team and clients
A problem-solver and team player

AS A PM YOU WILL ENSURE THAT

The project that you are overseeing is executed as planned, on time and on budget
Clients are engaged and informed, and ultimately satisfied
The team has a clear understanding of the project goals and their place within the team, and are empowered to deliver on our commitments

YOU WILL

Manage the project:

- Understand the strengths and potential pitfalls that come with an Agile delivery philosophy based on personal experience

- Tailor and manage processes in accordance with the team structure and circumstances (different engagement models such as T&M or fixed price, variable team size, geographical spread and engagement length…)

- Work collaboratively with our clients to identify and document scope as well as building and maintaining delivery plans

- Provide accurate and timely updates on milestones and progress against a plan i.e burndown

- Actively manage and mitigate project risk

Manage a product:

- Maintain a product roadmap, balancing requirements from multiple stakeholders

- Coordinate with Adaptive teams using the product

- Oversee production & maintenance of technical documentation and marketing materials

- Share knowledge with the Adaptive Support team

Manage a team:

- Promote a Servant Leader mindset, empower highly-skilled team members to deliver their best and involve them in decision making

- Identify and drive the resolution of problems affecting team harmony and performance

- Understand various software concepts to discuss problems and orchestrate strategy with various talents in the team:

~ Developers: real-time programming, high availability

~ QA: TDD, BDD, acceptance criteria

~ UX

~ BA: backlog management, domain knowledge (exchanges, real-time trading, investment banking)

~ DevOps

~ Support

- Work with distributed teams (London/Barcelona)

Manage people:

- Regularly lend an ear to your team members and listen to what they have to say about their job satisfaction, their aspirations... in the spirit of Adaptive’s staff management style: informal and collegiate

- Liaise with directors/HR to report relevant information (ex: career plan development, a personal event requiring support from the team/company…)

- Take part in the probation process for new members of staff

Manage resourcing:

- Own the resourcing plan for the engagement

- Review proposed resourcing model with Delivery leadership, and maintain resource forecast in Kimble

- Identify gaps in the team, and engage with HR team to recruit new hires accordingly

- Participate in hiring of PM peers

Manage client & stakeholders:

- Provide regular project status reporting to client stakeholders

- Use effective and transparent communication

- Actively manage the client’s expectations, make assumptions explicit and create an audit trail of important decisions throughout the engagement