The career You Deserve

Five Jars is looking for an experienced Technical Project Manager to join our growing team of professionals. 

This role requires a solid professional background in full-cycle project management within a software delivery environment. It involves aspects of planning, monitoring, and controlling the project from the beginning up to the project completion.

You are going to work with a cozy team of talented, creative experts, who love their projects and do their best to contribute to their development. If you are an ambitious person who knows how web development works, we have a great opportunity for you to reach your full potential!

Goals
Company goals for the candidate that should be solved:

• Manage fixed-scope (fixed budget) and SLA (monthly support) projects
• Own scope for the project and be responsible for the delivery of projects
• Conduct weekly calls and demos to clients
• Minimize deviation from project deadlines
• Minimize deviation between sold hours and utilized hours on company projects
• Take full responsibility for managing project workspaces (Jira, Confluence, etc)
• Take full responsibility for the resources planning process (Harvest Forecast planning)
• Handle the scope changes and identify sales opportunities

Expected Results
Measured results based on company goals. They define how the candidate’s success will be measured.

• The team follows the project workflow which decreases the time for meetings, reports, and management
• Clients receive reports about the progress and status of a project according to initial agreements
• You’re a person who owns projects and can answer any scope related questions (or pass them to the client)
• A deviation from project deadlines is minimized to 5%
• A deviation between sold and utilized hours on a project is minimized to 10%
• Project workspaces are fully managed by you (Jira, Confluence, Harvest, etc)
• Scope change requests management is fully covered by Project Manager and overseen by the leadership
• Potential sales requests are identified by the Project Manager and passed to a sales representative

Professional skills
Required professional skills for being successful with goals and expected results.
MUST have skills:

• Provide full scope of HR service: on-boarding, one-on-one meetings with employees, performance reviews, off-boarding;
• Review and update employment contracts and agreements, prepare them for signature;
• Communicate with team members: monitoring the mood of specialists and job satisfaction within the project;
• Promote corporate culture and company values;
• Help us build an impressive employer brand in collaboration with the marketing team.
• Organization of offline team meetings;
• Organizing online and offline activities;
• Control and communicate with the team about time off and a day off periods;
• Prepare budgets by the department;
• Documenting HR processes and tasks;
• Track key HR metrics like retention rates, attrition rate, eNPS, etc.;
• Help CEO and COO with some of their daily tasks (from time to time);

Nice to have skills:

• Basic/Good knowledge of Drupal CMS
• Experience translating business requirements to technical requirements and system architecture
• Experience in creating proposals and statements of work

Day-to-day Responsibilities
Responsibilities that candidate will have on a daily basis.

• Host scrum meetings and identify what’s been done, what’s in progress and what’s planned
• Communicate with clients via Basecamp, Email, GoToMeeting
• Transition all the client’s feedback into Jira tasks and requirements
• Lead the decision-making process what is in scope and what is a feature request
• Set up the priority for features, tasks, bugs, and defects that may appear on a daily basis
• Control team loading over Harvest Forecast
• Control projects milestones and timelines 
• Create and send reports to the client about hours burn down
• Create and send reports to the company leadership about high-level deviation from sold and utilized hours
• Identify blockers and apprise about them to team and clients

We Propose

• 100% remote work;
• Fair compensation;
• Benefits such as vacation, sick leave, a day off during official national holidays;
• Flexible schedule (7 hrs per day / 1 hr for learning new things);
• Regular Friday Open Microphones about different tech things from other team members;
• Help with learning new things (courses, books, etc.);
• Support in participating in conferences;
• Warm and friendly working environment;
• Team buildings and other sorts of online/offline team activities.

Five Jars is looking for a senior sales representative contractor to drive the growth of our international digital agency in NGO, education, art & culture, and other industries. Delivery of $1M+ of outbound sales annually is expected with the commission and further opportunity to build a team.

You’ll start as a sole sales representative with some help from our research team, expected to deliver outbound sales of $1M in your first year.

Over time, you’ll have a growth opportunity to build a team and grow our pool of clients and projects.

Responsibilities
You will be responsible for outbound sales at a minimum of $1M in your first year.

• Ownership of the entire sales cycle from lead to close;
• Client research and targeting using our in house tools, external databases, and new tools that you may recommend;
• Prospecting includes making new connections in person, through Linkedin, by email, and any other relevant channels;
• Creating positive relationships with decision-makers at potential client organizations;
• Acting as a consultant to potential clients to help them work out what they really need and understand what’s possible for their project;
• Proposal creation using our existing templates, adding extra content, and editing the current content;
• Contract negotiation and closing of sales with new clients;
• Client handover to our delivery team at the start of new projects;
• Converting individual project contracts into ongoing support agreements;
• Upselling clients onto additional products and services.

Requirements
Required professional skills for being successful with goals and expected results:

• 3+ years of experience in digital agency (sales, marketing, strategy, or operations role);
• Experience in selling digital agency services;
• Experience in creating the sales strategy for the organization;
• Experience in project & strategy sales;
• You must have created a strategy for the clients of your previous digital agency;
• You must have closed multiple contracts of $100k+ value solo or as the lead negotiator;
• Have knowledge of hybrid technology sales and consultancy skills;
• C-level communication;
• Excellent/native English.

We offer

• Outcome-focused pay (1st year and subsequent years commission);
• Remote work in the desired location (or spot in a co-working);
• Straightforward motivation and bonus system;
• Performance reviews;
• Benefits such as paid time off;
• Flexible schedule (7 hrs per day);
• Close collaboration with the technology team;
• Help with learning new things (courses, books, etc);
• Support in participating in conferences;
• Warm and friendly working environment;
• Team buildings and other sorts of online/offline team activities.

Five Jars is open to welcoming an experienced, self-motivated Lead Drupal Developer into our growing team of professionals.

We are looking for an engineer with solid professional background in Drupal 8+ development within a software delivery environment. A person who will lead software developments in the team and help build sustainable architecture.

If you are an ambitious person who knows how web development works, we have an excellent opportunity for you to reach your full potential in a Lead Developer role!

Goals
Company goals for the candidate that should be solved:

• Join our team and make it stronger using your experience
• Participate in the design and planning of new features
• Participate in creating estimates and project timeline
• Perform code reviews
• Participate in clients calls along with Project Managers
• Produce clear, well-structured, cross-browser, testable, scalable, high-quality code
• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Interaction with Project Manager, Team Leads, QA, and others as needed to resolve blockers and move a project towards a successful finish
• Help team meet deadlines and milestones

Expected Results
Measured results based on company goals. They define how the candidate’s success will be measured.

• Timely and high-quality development
• You’re a person who can jump on any difficult task
• You’re a person who can answer any scope related questions
• You’re a person who is responsible for the quality of developed solutions
• You’re a person who can build any project architecture
• You’re a person who participates in clients calls and answers any technical questions
• You’re a person who writes technical documentation (if needed)
• You’re a person who can answer questions (if you know the answer) even if they were not addressed to you

Professional skills
Required professional skills for being successful with goals and expected results.

• 5+ years in Drupal 8, 9 development
• Developing Drupal 8+ modules, themes, and distributions on Drupal - Open Source CMS
• Knowledge of Drupal best practices
• Strong leadership and organizational abilities
• Willingness to build professional relationships with staff and clients
• Writing JavaScript/jQuery plugins or applications.
• Familiar with JavaScript concepts like closures, prototyping
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills
• Working with Git, Jira, UNIX systems
• Strong OOP knowledge, design patterns, and principles
• Intermediate+ English level
• A good understanding of Symfony3.2+
• Experience with Docker would be a plus
• Experience with WordPress would be a plus

Day-to-day Responsibilities
Responsibilities that candidates will have on a daily basis.

• Building Projects architecture
• Participating in developing Drupal Distribution (Open Y)
• Participating in meetings with clients 
• Developing Drupal integrations with 3rd party systems
• Developing Drupal modules
• Helping Project Managers with technical questions 
• Helping other team members deliver projects in time with the best quality 
• Providing technical details in Jira tasks
• Participating in company initiatives along with other team leads 
• Working in a friendly and ambitious environment
• Helping other team members deliver projects in time with the best quality 
• Helping with review of work made by other team members 
• Writing important technical documentation for projects
• Being responsible for the code you write
• Being proactive

We Propose 

• Remote work in a team of professionals;
• Straightforward motivation and bonus system;
• Fair compensation;
• Benefits such as vacation, sick leave, a day off during official national holidays;
• Flexible schedule (7 hrs per day / 1 hr for learning new things);
• Regular tech talks (open mic) from other team members;
• Help with learning new things (courses, books, etc);
• Support in participating in conferences;
• Warm and friendly working environment;
• Team buildings and other sorts of online/offline team activities.

Five Jars is open to welcoming an experienced (middle+) self-motivated Drupal Developer into our growing team of professionals. 

We are looking for an engineer with solid professional background in Drupal 8+ development within a software delivery environment. This role involves aspects of planning, estimating, and delivering quality solutions from the beginning up to the project completion.

If you are an ambitious person who knows how web development works, and we have an excellent opportunity for you to reach your full potential!

Goals
Company goals for the candidate that should be solved:

• Join our team and make it stronger using your experience
• Participate in the design and planning of new features
• Produce clear, well-structured, cross-browser, testable, scalable, high-quality code
• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Interaction with Project Manager, Team Leads, QA, and others as needed to resolve blockers and move a project towards a successful finish
• Help team meet deadlines and milestones

Expected Results
Measured results based on company goals. They define how the candidate’s success will be measured.

• Timely and high-quality development
• You’re a person who can jump on any difficult task
• You’re a person who can answer any scope related questions
• You’re a person who is responsible for the quality of developed solutions
• You’re a person who writes technical documentation (if needed)
• You’re a person who can answer questions (if you know the answer) even if they were not addressed to you

Professional skills
Required professional skills for being successful with goals and expected results.

• 3+ years in Drupal 8 development
• Developing Drupal 8+ modules, themes, and distributions on Drupal - Open Source CMS.
• Knowledge of Drupal best practices.
• Writing Javascript/jQuery plugins or applications.
• Familiar with Javascript concepts like closures, prototyping
• Strong OOP knowledge, design patterns, and principles
• Intermediate+ English level
• Working with Git, Jira, UNIX systems
• Experience with Docker will plus
• Experience with Wordpress would be a plus

Day-to-day Responsibilities
Responsibilities that candidates will have on a daily basis.

• Working in a friendly and ambitious environment
• Developing Drupal integrations with 3rd party systems
• Developing Drupal modules
• Participating in developing Drupal Distribution (Open Y)
• Helping other team members deliver projects in time with the best quality 
• Helping with review of work made by other team members 
• Writing important technical documentation for projects
• Being responsible for the code you write
• Being proactive

We Propose 

• Remote work in a team of professionals;
• Straightforward motivation and bonus system;
• Fair compensation;
• Benefits such as vacation, sick leave, a day off during official national holidays;
• Flexible schedule (7 hrs per day / 1 hr for learning new things);
• Regular tech talks (open mic) from other team members;
• Help with learning new things (courses, books, etc);
• Support in participating in conferences;
• Warm and friendly working environment;
• Team buildings and other sorts of online/offline team activities.