Sputnik8 is an accredited IT company developing a service for booking excursions worldwide.
We help travelers find and book experiences in 100+ countries: from classic sightseeing tours to unique local experiences. More than 7 million people have already gone on excursions with us! And we continue to grow, launch new geographies and projects.
Currently, our team has over 200 professionals. We believe that a strong product is born where people are given space for ideas, experiments, and influence on the result. Therefore, we create an environment for growth, initiative, and comfortable work together.
Now we are looking for a Project Manager to strengthen the Operations Team and work on business tasks.
Operations is a young team, it's informal, atmospheric, and warm here. We are involved in identifying and reducing business risks, building and optimizing processes. We work using a Scrumban approach, using Asana, Slack, Google Workspace, regular dailies, and OKRs. The team currently consists of a team lead and two project managers; close collaboration on cross-functional projects with legal teams, accounting, the finance department, and product areas is expected.
Our work directly impacts financial security, reduces operational and legal risks, increases data protection, and aids product development. Our goal is the stability and sustainability of all company business processes.
Main areas of work:
- Sustainability – adapting the business to external changes and legislative requirements
- Optimization – finding ways to optimize expenses
- Risk management - identifying and mitigating risks for the business, protecting intellectual property
What you will do:
- Implement existing projects in the operational department and launch new processes and projects
- Plan project work (decomposition, planning, Gantt charts and roadmaps, prioritization, task tracking, deadline control)
- Identify and minimize risks and form an action plan for their occurrence
- Research information and new unconventional solutions for task implementation
- Communicate within the team, within the company, and with the right people everywhere and always
What we expect from the candidate:
- At least 2 years of experience as a project manager or business assistant
- Ability to create and maintain a project risk map, skills in building Gantt charts and planning project stages
- Proficiency in decomposing tasks and project blocks
- Experience in building, documenting, and implementing processes within a team or company
- Ability to create Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD) for tasks and projects
- Experience working with task trackers
- Experience managing projects with multiple stakeholders
- Autonomy and proactivity
What we offer:
- Work in a fast-growing company on an international product that inspires
- Flexible start to the workday
- Hybrid format (any 2-3 days a week from home) or remote work format with occasional business trips to our office in St. Petersburg
- Official employment and benefits of IT companies
- We provide necessary equipment for work
- We support professional development: we pay for courses, books, and external mentorship
- Voluntary medical insurance (DMS) with dentistry, a psychologist, couples therapy, and travel insurance abroad (after the probationary period)
- Joint trips to bars on Vasilyevsky Island, trying different world cuisines with the team for lunch, supporting local brands
- Twice a winter, we go to work in warm countries!
- Office five minutes from the Vasileostrovskaya metro station in the historic building of Andreevsky Dvor. Excellent coffee shops and tasty food courts nearby
