A bit about us
GroundTruth is a media platform that drives in-store visits and other real business results. Using observed real-world consumer behavior, including location and purchase data, we create targeted advertising campaigns across all screens for advertisers. We then measure how consumers respond to the campaigns, including if they physically show up to a store location or website, to understand the real business results generated by a brand’s advertising.
Learn more at groundtruth.com.
We believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and have been ranked one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work in 2021, 2022, & 2023. Learn more about the perks of joining our team here.
Position: Program Manager
Location: Gurugram / India / Remote
The Program Manager represents experienced, senior level project management professionals with experience coordinating and delivering complex technical products and solutions in their specific functional area. The Program Manager closely collaborates with their Product Owner/Manager peers to own the delivery lifecycle of initiatives in their functional area. They are the delivery arm of GroundTruth’s Product Organization, closely engaged with their Engineering peers and actively participating with oversight on scheduling, management of dependencies, and orchestration of cross-functional engineering teams to successfully launch new products and solutions. They are strong communicators, comfortable in technical conversations, and take ownership of decisions informed by constraints in time, scope, budget, and staffing resources. GroundTruth’s Program Managers are highly organized professionals who are adept at balancing deadlines without sacrificing quality.
You will:
- Work in close partnership with your Product Owner and Engineering Lead peers to deliver complex technical products and solutions.
- Own and orchestrate work breakdown, sequencing, task assignment, and scheduling of multiple work streams required for delivery of those initiatives;
- Organize and maintain a calendar with dependencies to keep engineering teams unblocked and on schedule;
- Coordinate cross-functionally to manage dependencies with other Product Managers and Engineering teams;
- Own detail-level design deliverables (in close partnership with our design team) to provide functional specs for development;
- Take ownership of value engineering initiatives to deliver cost-conscious solutions.
- Iterate on existing solutions to provide continued maintenance/monitoring of key products.
- Manage customer beta periods and lead rollouts for successful delivery.
You have:
A Bachelors or Masters degree with 6+ years experience in leading product teams in the AdTech or Digital Marketing industry. Advanced degree, PMP certification, or relevant experience in Project Management, Agile/Scrum, and/or Team Leadership are a plus.
- 2+ years experience working in the digital advertising industry is plus.
- Demonstrated positive business impact by delivering projects on time and on budget.
- Successfully worked across multiple engineering teams to deliver cross-functional products and solutions.
- Understanding of any work scheduling tool like Gantt Chart / JIRA / Smartsheet or any other tool.
- Actively collaborated with business stakeholders to scope large-scale product deliveries.
You are:
- An organized and detail-oriented team player;
- Technically adept, comfortable working with engineering teams to design, scope, and deliver sophisticated products and solutions;
- A strong communicator who can collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders and find compromises and solutions;
- A detail-oriented person, working with multiple teams to propose and build solutions that add value to the business;
- A problem solver with a maker mindset.
What we offer:
At GroundTruth, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.
- Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity
- Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays)
- In Office Daily Catered Lunch
- Fully stocked snacks/beverages
- Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents
- Covid home quarantine cover
- Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines
- Wellness/Gym Reimbursement
- Pet Expense Reimbursement
- Childcare Expenses and reimbursements
- Employee assistance program
- Employee referral program
- Education reimbursement program
- Skill development program
- Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)
- Internet reimbursement
- Birthday treat reimbursement
- Home office set up
- Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as VPF and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic
- Creche reimbursement
- Co-working space reimbursement
- NPS employer match
- Meal card for tax benefit
- Special benefits on salary account
- New joiner relocation
Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodations under applicable federal, state and/or local laws. If you need reasonable accommodations in the application process, please reach out to us at [email protected].
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity, inclusion and equity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
To ensure your application is properly reviewed, we kindly ask that you submit your resume and optional cover letter through the designated application portal. Applications submitted via the "Contact Us" form on our website will not be considered.
