Senior Project Manager
Dev.Pro
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇭🇷 Croatia
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Senior
About the role
- Lead planning, coordination, and delivery of mission-critical cross-team projects
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define goals, priorities, and timelines
- Facilitate communication and alignment across engineering, QA, and product teams
- Track progress, manage risks and dependencies, and resolve blockers or escalations to ensure timely delivery
- Communicate project progress and critical updates clearly to stakeholders
- Mentor and guide team members, promoting best practices and accountability
- Support Agile/Scrum ceremonies and continuous delivery processes, optimizing workflows
- Build and maintain strong relationships with the client onsite to foster trust and alignment
Requirements
- 5+ years of project management experience in software development or fintech
- Strong skills in project planning, coordination, and delivery management
- Experience managing high-volume, high-performance backend or financial systems
- Risk, issue, and change management experience
- Agile/Scrum and continuous delivery experience
- Effective cross-functional collaboration with engineering, QA, and product teams
- Experience building strong client relationships onsite
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience with reporting, metrics, and tracking project progress
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities
- Upper-Intermediate+ English level
- Location in Zagreb or ability to commute to the office daily
- Background in Payments, FinTech, or Financial Services (Desirable)
- Fluency in Croatian or Ukrainian (Desirable)
- Experience with project management tools (Jira, Confluence, or similar) (Desirable)
- Leadership experience for mentoring/guiding junior PMs or team members (Desirable)
Benefits
- 30 paid days off per year — take them whenever you want for vacation, holidays, or personal time
- 5 paid sick days, up to 60 days of medical leave, and 6 paid days off per year for major family events like weddings, funerals, or the birth of a child
- Partially covered health insurance after the probation, plus a wellness bonus for gym memberships, sports nutrition, and similar needs after 6 months
- Grow your skills with English lessons, online training, conferences, and the option to explore new career paths
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
project managementproject planningdelivery managementrisk managementissue managementchange managementAgileScrumcontinuous deliveryreporting
Soft skills
communicationnegotiationstakeholder managementorganizational skillsanalytical skillsproblem-solvingmentoringcollaborationaccountabilityrelationship building