Product and Project Manager

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Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join a small, innovative, and fast-moving SaaS company and truly make a difference.

As a strong Project Manager with a deep understanding of Product Management, you will work closely with our prospects and current customers to ensure their product requirements are met.

• You will manage a strong development team guiding them when deadlines and priorities change.
• Responsibilities
• Manage product development throughout the product lifecycle.
• Gather and prioritize product and customer requirements.
• Participate in defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Identify business objectives that a product or feature will fulfill.
• Work closely with engineering, developers, and other stakeholders to deliver winning products.
• Articulate what success looks like for a product, and rally a team to turn that vision into a reality.
• Act as the customer advocate articulating the user's and/or buyer's needs.
• Participate in translating business-to-technical requirements, and vice versa.
• Monitor the market and develop competitive analyses.
• Determine and define project scope and objectives.
• Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner.
• Monitor progress and adjust as needed.
• Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement.
• Apply agile project management principles to the development of products, and projects management.
• Participate in other project management initiatives and tasks as needed.
• Build and maintain timelines (e.g., sprints, milestones, Gantt charts).
• Run stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives (if Agile/Scrum).
• Remove roadblocks and keep the team unblocked and productive.
• Translate technical progress into plain English for execs and clients.
• Manage expectations around timelines, budgets, and deliverables.
• Document decisions, changes, and risks.
• Identify resource needs and gaps (people, tools, skills).
• Flag scope creep or technical debt before it kills the timeline.
• Adjust plans based on shifting priorities or unexpected issues.
• Own the post-mortem.
• Improve workflows (think: CI/CD, sprint efficiency, handoff clarity).
• Track KPIs like cycle time, velocity, and delivery accuracy.
• Advocate for tools/processes that support scale and quality.
• Main Requirements
• 5+ years of product and project management and related experience.
• Experience working in SaaS environments highly preferred.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices.
• Strong familiarity with Scrum and agile framework and methodologies.
• Demonstrated success in defining and launching products that meet and exceed business objectives.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and other PM and related certifications, preferred.
• Personal Skills
• Responsibility, and high level of professional discipline, strong initiative abilities.
• Fast-learning, proactivity, and result-oriented.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced growing deadline-driven startup environment.
• Strong self-motivation, driven to achieve committed milestones.
• Ability to independently analyze a task and find the right solution.
• Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent teamwork and team management skills.
• Ability to work closely and communicate with customers and sales team.
• Benefits & Perks
• Great opportunity for professional development within a young and fast-growing company.
• Challenging tasks with excellent growth opportunities.
• Remote work with long-term employment on a full-time basis or under contract.
• High-level compensation based on the performance reviews.
• Flexible working hours.
• Paid vacation and sick leaves.
• Days off on national holidays.
• Opportunities for knowledge sharing.