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With 275,000 enthusiast communities attracting more than 45 million global unique visitors each month, Wikia is the largest user-generated media company and is a Top 50 site, according to Quantcast. Wikia was founded in 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, and is headquartered in a brightly colored SOMA office in San Francisco, CA.
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Project Manager (Poznań, Poland)
Would you like to work for a Silicon Valley, California start-up, but be able to stay and live in Europe? Would you enjoy work where there is no limits to what you can do and achieve, where you're encouraged to drive the growth of the company and your role and position is largely defined by yourself? Then we have a job for you! Come and join us as Project Manager.
We offer
- A chance to have an impact on an exciting product used by tens of millions of people all over the world.
- A fun, multicultural team of co-workers.
- Flexible working hours.
- Our office conveniently located in the center of one of the oldest Polish cities - Poznań.
- Training in our headquarters in the beautiful city of San Francisco.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate, schedule and support Software Development Projects for geographically dispersed teams in an Agile environment.
- Work closely with Product Managers and Engineers.
- Lead and actively participate in international conference calls and Scrums.
- Keep all interested parties up to date on project progress, using our wikis and issue-tracking system.
- Improve working practices of Wikia.
Qualifications
- At least 3 years experience of project management, Agile environment preferred, at least 1 year in an international business environment.
- General technical understanding of software programming, software releases, testing and QA.
- To balance technical solutions with time and human factors.
- Excellent problem-solving, decision-making skills and to stay calm under pressure.
- To be highly organized, attentive to details and result oriented.
- To be a self starter and proactive.
- A desire to grow, learn and be challenged in a start-up environment.
- To be a team player with ability to build and motivate teams.
- To be assertive, persuasive, reliable.
- To be able to communicate with the California team during their morning business hours.
- Relevant University degree or similar experience.
- Readiness to travel twice a year for three weeks to the USA.
- Fluent English in both speaking and writing (Polish is not required.).
Applying
If you are an active Wikipedia or Wikia editor, please enclose your user name in the application. Please send your application in English to hr-pl@wikia-inc.com.
