Project Manager at Laba Czech

We are an online education platform for the new era. We produce and sell live online business courses taught by leading experts from the world’s best-known companies. And we are opening a new branch in the Czech Republic. 

We are looking for a Junior Project Manager to join the team. This high-visibility position will be responsible for driving our most critical business initiatives, namely producing new online courses. 

As a Project Manager, you will combine your business thinking, instructional design, attention to detail, and excellent project management skills with your strong ability to build relations with critical internal and external stakeholders to ensure the success of the courses you create and produce. Your sense of absolute ownership of your courses and your creativity will be what drives the team to success.

• Ideate, brainstorm and manage the production of online courses for Laba Czech, including recruiting and engaging instructors.

• Partner with Marketing and Sales leadership to establish a solid understanding of the vision, purpose and expected business benefits of a course.

• Manage the course-level decomposition of work across functional teams. You will work across organizational boundaries to define course interdependencies and release plans.

• Facilitate executive-level escalations and course-level change management.

• Monitor the progress of course delivery by tracking production status, risks, issues and dependencies. You will proactively address problems raised by the delivery team and resolve roadblocks to enable successful program execution.

• Manage course-level communications to ensure stakeholders are informed of roadmap changes, release plans, and delivery status. You will frame concepts appropriately for the executive team.

• Lead course reviews with students, delivery teams, instructors and executive management as required.

• Facilitate course retrospectives to identify improvement opportunities. You will evangelize and integrate the desired changes to enable continuous improvement.

• Lead by example. You will cover key management roles as needed to ensure the success of course production and delivery efforts.

• Ensure the efficient use of organizational resources.

• Live and breathe a proactive course production mindset, filling roles as necessary to meet delivery goals.

• Experience in project management and KPI-driven mindset.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with professional confidence and credibility, so that you can effectively engage and interact with senior and executive-level external stakeholders.

• Ability to quickly understand and communicate course ideas and their value to a wide range of audiences, adjusting the message to the audience.

• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities effectively and meet aggressive deadlines while being meticulous, thorough and extra precise.

• Ability to manage project schedules and associated dependencies, identify possible issues, risks, and actions, and work with key stakeholders to mitigate them.

• Demonstrated ability to thrive in an environment of uncertainty and change.

• Outgoing, energetic, upbeat and fun personality.

• Experience in instructional design and online course development is a significant advantage.

• Understanding performance marketing channels, A/B testing, and user acquisition KPIs is a significant advantage.

• Competitive salary depending on your experience and skills 
• Flexible schedule from 10 AM to 6 PM 
• All our courses free of charge for the team right after the probation period
• Compensation for external training and masterclasses 
• Covering half of your gym, swimming pool, or yoga membership after six months of working with us
• Huge space for your own ideas and development

We are waiting for your application, so send your CV and become a part of our Czech team.