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Technical Project Manager

Root|Posted 1 day ago

Skills and experience

Role:Project manager
Experience in role:3+ years
Language proficiency:English
Must-have skills:
    Jira
    Postman
Nice-to-have skills:
    JavaScript
    HTML5
    GitHub

Location and salary

Remote policy:Hybrid
Location of job:Cape Town, South Africa
Visa requirements:Authorised to work in South Africa With status of citizen/passport holder
Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa
Employment type:Permanent

Role description

As a Project Lead at Root, you'll spearhead end-to-end project success and client satisfaction in our Projects team. You'll guide clients through rapid, robust implementation projects on the Root platform, leveraging our Solution Engineering team to achieve successful implementations. Your mission is to ensure effective, accurate, and swift product launches while being the primary point of contact for clients during implementations. This is a mid-level role.

In this role, you'll manage the process of designing and implementing tailored product solutions, keeping stakeholders informed, and working to onboard and generate value for clients as quickly as possible. We're looking for someone with strong project management skills, excellent communication abilities, and a knack for problem-solving. You'll collaborate closely with internal teams and external contractors to ensure holistic systems understanding and low-risk, low-maintenance solutions.

To excel in this position, you should have a bachelor's degree with 5+ years of professional work experience, including client-facing roles and end-to-end project delivery. Experience in software development, the insurance industry, or working with APIs and software integration principles would be advantageous. Join our team and help us deliver on Root's brand promises while embodying our values of leading by example, exceeding expectations, and rising to challenges.

About Root

15-50 employees

What we do

At Root, we believe that developers are the inventors and builders of the future. Making Developers’ lives easier, which includes their ability to innovate, is fundamentally part of Root’s mission.

Our goal is to bring insurance to the internet-age and make it more relevant and accessible to more people.

Root is an end-to-end digital insurance platform that enables its clients to launch new products and digital engagement channels fast. We package all the compliance, regulatory and reporting complexities behind easy-to-use APIs.

Our Engineering Processes

Our core systems are built on NodeJS (TypeScript) with our front-end systems built with React. We have seamless CI/CD set up as we believe it's more important to focus on the product we're building. We use an adapted version of kanban for managing our development process so that we can focus on writing useful code.

Our Hiring Process

We've kept our hiring process as simple as possible at Root. We've designed it to validate technical competence as well as to ensure a good team & culture fit from both sides. Our process is transparent, high-touch, and open to feedback at all times.

Icon1 Stage 1: Screening Interview We will invite you to have a 30 minute call with one of our Engineering team members.

Icon2 Stage 2: Take-Home Challenge We'll then send you our take-home challenge to complete over 2-3 days (ideally, but life's busy, and we are flexible). This shouldn't take you more than 4 hours (in total) to complete.

Icon3 Stage 3: Debrief and Team Fit interview We'll spend 60 minutes discussing your take-home challenge. We'd like to hear your thoughts and approach to it, as well as answer any questions that you may have had while completing the challenge. We will also spend some time chatting about our team's working behaviours and what enables you to thrive.

Icon4 Step 4: Simulation Day Be a Root Team Member for the day!! The last step is spending a day in the office with us for a (compensated) simulation day. You'll get to do a bit of work with the team, have lunch with us and meet more team members.

Icon5 Step 5: Admin Wrap up To finish it off, we'll phone your references to make sure we're not missing out on anything serious and we'll make sure our credit/criminal checks are sorted.

Icon6 Step 6: Offer We'll extend an offer to you and hope to have you onboard the Root Rocketship with us!

Perks at Root

Generous leave policy & space days
Daily catered lunches and Burger Fridays
Macbook & Work-From-Home hardware
Remote-first culture
Flexible working hours
Team wellness plans & medical aid contribution
Scenic offices in De Waterkant with secure parking

Tech Stack

application and data

Heroku
Heroku
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Node.js
Node.js
React
React
TypeScript
TypeScript
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services

dev ops

GitHub
GitHub
Docker
Docker
New Relic
New Relic
Terraform
Terraform

business tool

Google Apps
Google Apps
Slack
Slack
Zendesk
Zendesk
JIRA
JIRA
Zoom
Zoom
Productboard
Productboard
Miro
Miro

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