IT Project Manager and Product Owner

Quick Facts

• Role: IT Project Manager / Product Owner

Description

You will represent business needs in the product development process and connect business and technology perspectives. The role includes managing the product backlog, setting the product direction and roadmap, and making product decisions within a large transformation program. You will collaborate closely with business teams, IT, architects, and vendors to deliver measurable business value end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision, strategy, and roadmap based on business goals and user needs.

• Manage the product backlog; create and prioritize User Stories; break requirements into releasable increments.

• Ensure backlog transparency and communicate goals, priorities, and expectations to the team and stakeholders.

• Run discovery activities (user needs analysis, research, workshops).

• Make product decisions and manage trade-offs between scope, time, cost, and quality.

• Collaborate with IT teams, architects, and vendors, considering dependencies, API integrations, and technological constraints.

• Coordinate planning and execution of releases and take end-to-end responsibility for product delivery.

• Build and manage stakeholder relationships, expectations, and conflicts between business and IT.

• Monitor goal achievement and analyze business/product/operational metrics (KPI, OKR, NPS, ROI, revenue, Time to Market).

• Optimize business value delivered, manage change, and support adaptation to new solutions.

Requirements

• 6–7+ years of experience as Product Owner and/or Product Manager.

• Experience defining product vision, roadmap, and strategy aligned with business objectives.

• Excellent backlog management and value-based prioritization; strong User Story and acceptance criteria creation.

• Practical Scrum knowledge and experience working with Scrum teams.

• Solid understanding of the software delivery lifecycle and system architecture, including APIs, integrations, and constraints.

• Experience designing, monitoring, and analyzing product/business/operational metrics (KPI, OKR, NPS, ROI, Time to Market).

• Stakeholder management experience including negotiation, decision-making under uncertainty, and conflict resolution.

• Ability to conduct discovery, analyze user needs, and translate them into product requirements.

• Experience managing change and implementing solutions within an organization.

• Experience launching at least 3 commercial products, including at least one in insurance.

• Knowledge of Jira, Confluence, and Miro.

• Agile/Scrum certification (e.g., PSPO II or equivalent).

• English at B2 or higher.

• Availability for hybrid work in Warsaw (3 days in office, 2 days remote).

Benefits

• Employment stability with long-term projects and growth across different areas of IT.

• Flexible engagement models: B2B contract, employment contract, or mandate.

• Benefits: Medicover (expanded with dentistry), FitProfit, English lessons.

• F45 gym training at the office with professional coaches.

• Employee referral program.

• Possibility to fund IT certifications.

• Project-dependent work mode: hybrid, remote, or on-site.

• Integration events and trips.

• Charity support and community involvement (e.g., Szlachetna Paczka, #PomagamyNexio).