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Robots & Pencils


Robots & Pencils is a digital innovation firm. We help our clients use mobile, web and frontier technologies to transform their businesses and create what's next. In 2009, we created Robots & Pencils with the then-contrarian view that mobile would be more transformative than the Internet. Today, our thinking is rooted in the belief that, in the age of unprecedented technology acceleration, maintaining a competitive advantage requires new strategies and a focus on innovation.

Headquarter Location:
Calgary, Alberta Canada

Robots & Pencils is hiring a Remote Delivery Lead (Scrum Master Certified)

Job Description

What you’ll do:

  • Review key account performance with client account leaders and delivery leads; oversee project delivery
  • Work with client account leadership to set client expectations, participating in client account planning and forecasting activities
  • Overall management, tracking and reporting of deliverables in support of new business capabilities, ensuring on time and on budget delivery, adherence to compliance and quality standards, and alignment to the strategic objectives of the Statement of Work
  • Implement tracking methods and metrics to monitor progress, report status, identify deviations and implement corrective action, effective change control process to identify impacts (scope, schedule, cost, business case benefits), complete an impact assessment, and present recommendation
  • Responsible for defining and working towards a successful managed project outcome 
  • Responsible for ensuring team is aligned around the product vision and how their work adds to that vision
  • Responsible for defining documenting solution that balance business impact, scope and team resources 
  • Responsible for timeline and running sprint ceremonies
  • Responsible for status & project communications to the client as well as removing delivery team blockers
  • Responsible for uncovering the business needs, product vision, and requirements to inform the technical solution
  • Responsible for project growth efforts (EE)
  • Manages project team and supports career development
  • Responsible for decision analysis and recommendations for delivery issues
  • Facilitate program stage gates to validate deliverables and approve progression to the next phase
  • Ensure accurate and timely financial management including actual spend and forecasts for labor, non-labor and strategic partner support; explain cost variances and implement corrective action; track cost risks and cost opportunities
  • Responsible for updating various Portfolio management tools and systems such as Salesforce, Harvest (time tracking system) etc 

Qualifications

Skills & Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • Minimum of 2-3 years of Program Management or PMO Lead experience
  • Minimum of 2-3 years of managing large, complex portfolios with Agile delivery methodologies
  • Has run at least 4 substantial projects or programs
  • Minimum of 2-3 years consulting experience
  • Experience with tools like Salesforce, Harvest etc.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Make judgment calls on priorities
  • Is able to influence without persuasion
  • Comfortable conversing and has built relationships with teams outside of the PMO
  • Transport & Logistics experience
  • Can train others in their skillset and is open to knowledge sharing
  • Can take on client work and multiple Levvel initiatives without guidance of priorities remaining effective at both

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Sr. Product Owner-Consumer Tech

Robots & PencilsVancouver, Canada, Remote
agileDesignUXqa

Robots & Pencils is hiring a Remote Sr. Product Owner-Consumer Tech

Job Description

As Sr. Product Owner Contractor at Robots & Pencils, your impact will be to drive the product roadmap and strategy for your team. Product Ownership is the heart of ensuring that we build and deliver meaningful, impactful product enhancements and features for our users. You’ll be responsible for turning research into full-fledged products and will work closely with the business development and UX teams to deeply understand the problem space and define compelling products.

Product Design & Development

  • Define a product strategy and roadmap with prioritized features to realize business goals and strategies

  • Assist in defining the core product vision, goals, functionality and requirements

  • Drive a lean and agile development process to help define and refine working processes in order to maximize efficiency in constantly evolving environments

  • Work with both internal and external groups to roll-out product features

  • Collaborate across robot and pencil practices to scope and deliver world-class products and establish shared vision by building consensus on priorities leading to product execution

  • Guide ideas from concept-to-experimentation-to-product

Product Roadmap

  • Work with UX team to translate product strategy into detailed requirements and deliver according to the product roadmap

  • Define and deliver MVPs based on research, then scaling this out into full-fledged products

  • Create and maintain product roadmaps, feature backlogs and product documentation such PRDs, user stories, use cases, user flows, logic flows, and functional specifications.

Product Management

  • You will help lead large and complex projects, and mentor peers to help grow and develop an already collaborative and dedicated team

  • Write detailed functional specs so the team is aligned on what we are delivering and what success looks like

  • Prioritize development activities with the robots, assist in determining the best technical implementation methods, work closely with QA on acceptance testing and lead product launches

Stakeholder Management

  • Create buy-in for the product strategy with stakeholders including the executive team

  • Strive to mentor peers through leading Pencil Sharpening sessions (the Pencils team gets together every month to collaborate and share their knowledge), while helping to advance their creative capabilities 

  • Join a tightly integrated UX Practice that takes teamwork seriously every day

Qualifications

  • Retail tech project experience is a plus for this role!

  • 7+ years of product management, business analysis or equivalent experience with preference given to those who have a BA/BS in a technical field such as Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent

  • Experience with agile methodologies and an understanding of product management's role in various development methodologies

  • Proven track record of leading and delivering large and complex products and services

  • Excellent leadership, communication and presentation skills

  • Excellent analytical problem solving and decision making skills

  • Ability to quickly understand, simplify, internalize and communicate complex or technical concepts

  • Demonstrated thoroughness, follow-up and attention to detail

  • Up-to-date understanding of market trends and keen interest in following emerging technologies

  • Emphasis on user-driven product design and data-driven product refinement

  • Strong understanding of user experience, technical and business issues

  • Domain knowledge in one or more relevant industries

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Robots & Pencils is hiring a Remote Senior Flutter Mobile Developer

Job Description

As a Senior Flutter Mobile Developer, you will be responsible for developing, and maintaining mobile applications using Flutter. You will work closely with our team of talented developers, designers, and product managers to deliver innovative solutions that provide value to our clients and their users. Your expertise in Flutter and mobile development will be instrumental in guiding the direction of our mobile technology and ensuring the delivery of robust, scalable, and user-friendly applications.

Key Responsibilities
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Design and develop high-quality, maintainable, and scalable mobile applications using Flutter.
- Lead the mobile development team in planning, executing, and reviewing projects.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
- Stay up-to-date with new technology trends, applications, and protocols in mobile development.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in mobile development, with at least 2 years of experience in Flutter development.
- Proven track record of developing and deploying mobile applications on both iOS and Android platforms.
- Strong understanding of the Flutter framework and Dart programming language.
- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect mobile applications to back-end services.
- Strong understanding of mobile UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.
- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.
- Knowledge of code versioning tools, such as Git.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a team.
- Strong communication and leadership skills.

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