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Technical Project Manager

Noname Security

Noname Security

IT, Operations
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Posted on Friday, May 31, 2024

Technical Project Manager

  • R&D
  • Tel Aviv
  • Full-time

Description

Location - Tel Aviv, Israel

Noname Security, founded in 2020, is one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies, acquired by Akamai Technologies, the world's largest and most trusted Cloud Security Platform. Our mission is to reduce the risk of API security vulnerabilities and cyber-attacks. Our API Security Platform is an out-of-band solution that doesn’t require agents or network modifications and offers deeper visibility and security than API gateways, load balancers, and WAFs. No one addresses the API security challenge like Noname.

The Technical Project Manager will be responsible for overseeing the full software development life cycle of our API Security product. This role requires a strong technical background, excellent project management skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure project success.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage multiple complex projects from initiation through delivery, ensuring they meet scope, budget, and timeline requirements.
  • Collaborate with Product and R&D teams on defining roadmaps, aligning timelines, and overseeing resource allocation.
  • Work closely with Product Management, R&D, Quality Assurance, Customer Success, Pre-Sales etc. to incorporate the right mix of features, improvements, and bug fixes into each sprint.
  • Communicate proactively on project status, schedules, dependencies, issues, and risks to stakeholders.
  • Identify and resolve project conflicts and roadblocks, ensuring timely delivery of project milestones.
  • Develop detailed project plans, including schedules, resource allocation, and risk management.
  • Create, implement, and optimize processes within Product and R&D, for example roadmap and version planning, new product introduction, new feature requests, change management etc. to enhance efficiency, effectiveness and quality.
  • Ensure all project documentation is up-to-date and accessible to team members and stakeholders.
  • Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs.
  • Monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure project success and team performance.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience as a Technical Project Manager in an Agile development environment
  • Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Demonstrated experience in creating, implementing and optimizing processes for Product and R&D teams in a B2B company.
  • Proven ability to define, implement and measure the effectiveness of process-related improvements.
  • Excellent organizational, leadership, and communication skills.
  • Proficiency with tools such as Jira and Confluence, project management tools etc.
  • Experience in defining, tracking, and reporting on KPIs to ensure project and team performance aligns with organizational goals.
  • Meticulous attention to detail.
  • Analytical and possess strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to identify and mitigate risks and issues.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Experience with Agile methodologies and tools, including Scrum and Kanban. Ability to adapt Agile methodologies to fit the needs of the organization.
  • Experience working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and ability to manage multiple competing priorities and projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience working for a cyber security company.
  • PMP or other relevant project management certification.