Senior IT Project Manager

Posted:
10/21/2024, 10:55:58 AM

Location(s):
Capital City of Prague, Prague, Czechia ⋅ Prague, Czechia

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
IT & Security ⋅ Product

We are searching for individuals with extensive experience in leading IT projects. Your role will encompass developing and implementing change management strategies, driving organizational transformation, and ensuring successful project outcomes. If you are a seasoned IT project leader ready to contribute to transformative initiatives, we want to hear from you! 🚀

What is our mindset? 

  • We would compare ourselves to a sports team, where we strive to assemble the best team with the available resources.
  • While maintaining values like fairness, mutual support, and respect, we also focus on performance, aiming to build a top-notch organization capable of delivering excellent results quickly. Our culture is built on courage, ambition, and is strongly meritocratic, allowing the most capable individuals to grow rapidly. 
  • Learn more about us on the landing page.

Typical Responsibilities

  • The goal is to lead various projects and come up with ways to do things better, more simply, and more efficiently.
  • Analyze new opportunities and weak points in the product based on data, and suggest resulting changes that push the platform/product toward simplicity and clarity.
  • Develop the product to ensure user satisfaction and meet business objectives, including creating roadmaps and business cases.
  • Define functionalities and new features. Seek new opportunities and inspiration from top players—how to scale the product, optimize it, which features to implement, etc.
  • Prioritize the best opportunities at any given moment and weigh their benefits against the required effort.

Requirements

  • Real experience with the role of Product Owner/Senior Product Manager or CPO from e-commerce, startups, or SaaS business.
  • Experience in product development from the perspective of customer data and web; a connection with marketing is also important.
  • Knowledge of KPIs, product metrics, and ownership of the conversion funnel. English at C1 level.
  • Attention to detail and systematization in task completion.
  • Organizational skills and the ability to see things through to completion.
  • Problem-solving skills, information retrieval, and the ability to cope with unexpected and crisis situations during development.
  • Focus on numbers and their added value within the product - testing, user data, focus groups, prototypes, etc.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with different types of people, including assertiveness and consistency.
  • Ability to prioritize, handle multiple tasks simultaneously, and operate successfully in a high-performance work environment.
  • Experience with task management systems, Google Workspace, and advanced knowledge of Excel/Google Sheets.
  • Time flexibility - you will need to be available after 17:00.

What are we looking for in you?

  • Startup mindset: Emphasis on simplification, focusing on completed tasks, and moving forward in short intervals, finding solutions, and quickly adapting to changing conditions.
  • Ambition to build something: The projects in our portfolio are large and long-term, offering the possibility of rapid advancement to a higher role or even moving to another company in the future.
  • Teamwork: We work in harmony, step by step, progressing together, helping each other, and recognizing that success will be shared.
  • Learning ability: You must be able to quickly adapt to project changes, communicate with different types of people, learn from mistakes, and come up with ideas.
  • Commitment and drive: We are looking for those who enjoy their work, are eager to learn, and aren't afraid to tackle large projects with significant impact.
  • Numeracy skills: Focused on results, able to evaluate your work and set incremental goals; using Excel and other tools will be valuable in our environment.
  • English proficiency: Most communication is in English, both written and verbal.
  • We primarily seek a matching mindset, enthusiasm, ambition, and aligned values, rather than extensive experience. We like giving opportunities for career starts.

Join our team and play a vital role in steering our organization's successful transformation journey. Apply now and contribute to shaping our future success! 🚀

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