Chandigarh's IT Park, inside the Rajiv Gandhi Technology Park complex, has a Junior Technical Project Manager opening, full time and on site. Nine months of relevant experience is the expectation, enough to have already sat through a project that slipped its timeline and learned something concrete from watching it happen, rather than encountering that for the first time on the job.
Early in this role, expect a mix of hands-on technical work and coordination: implementing small features based on project requirements, debugging issues alongside the engineering team, documenting decisions so nothing lives only in someone's head, and sitting in code reviews to build a real understanding of what the team is shipping before taking on more scheduling and stakeholder-facing responsibility. The company deliberately eases junior project managers into the coordination side rather than throwing someone straight into stakeholder meetings with no technical grounding.
Required skills are project planning fundamentals, enough technical understanding to follow an engineering conversation without needing everything translated, stakeholder management, and familiarity with Agile methodologies in practice, not just in theory from a certification course. A junior project manager who can't tell when an engineer is quietly signaling a timeline is unrealistic tends to struggle here more than one with a formal PM certification but sharper listening instincts.
A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field is expected, along with proficiency in the tools and frameworks relevant to this role. The hiring manager has noted that candidates coming from a technical background, even without formal project management experience, often adapt faster than those coming purely from a project coordination background with no technical grounding at all.
The Rajiv Gandhi Technology Park has become one of Chandigarh's more established IT hubs, and the office here supports several concurrent client projects, which means a junior project manager gets exposure to multiple team structures and stakeholder styles fairly quickly rather than settling into one fixed pattern for the whole first year.
Naukri Mitra has listed a handful of roles from this employer, and past junior hires describe the first three months as heavily shadowing a senior project manager in real meetings, not just reading process documentation. That shadowing period ends once the junior PM starts running smaller stakeholder conversations independently, usually somewhere between month two and month four depending on how quickly things click.
Interviews include a scenario-based conversation about handling a slipping timeline and a technical screening to confirm baseline engineering literacy. Candidates who admit uncertainty about a technical detail and ask a clarifying question, rather than bluffing through it, tend to leave a better impression than those who guess confidently and get it wrong.
The Chandigarh office itself is a fairly typical mid-size setup, with the Software Development team sharing space with a couple of other functions rather than occupying a dedicated floor. That layout means visibility works both ways: good work gets noticed by people outside the immediate team faster than it might at a larger, more siloed employer, and so do mistakes.
The project management team holds a biweekly session where junior PMs present a decision they made and get direct feedback from senior colleagues, a structure the team has kept specifically because talking through the reasoning behind a call, not just the outcome, builds judgment faster than experience alone.
This role is based at IT Park, Rajiv Gandhi Technology Park, Chandigarh, pin code 160101, five days a week on site. Pay is up to ₹38,500 a month. The team hopes to fill this seat within four weeks.