Product Lead, Program Manager
OAK'S LAB
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Prague • 🇨🇿 Czech
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Senior
About the role
- Strategic Program Oversight: Own and drive the delivery strategy for multiple interconnected product initiatives, ensuring they are mutually aligned to achieve a significant, overarching business goal for the client.
- Dependency Management: Identify, manage, and mitigate cross-stream risks and dependencies between your assigned product teams (designers, engineers, QAs) to ensure seamless and efficient execution.
- High-Level Stakeholder Management: Coordinate closely with our business development team and senior client stakeholders to manage expectations, define high-level roadmaps, and ensure the program is delivered successfully within established timelines and budgets.
- Process & Execution Excellence: Drive operational consistency and best practices (including Agile principles) across all product streams, focusing on the quality of output and achieving defined business outcomes.
- Cross-Functional Coordination: Serve as the ultimate escalation point and communication hub, ensuring alignment between product managers, engineering leads, and senior leadership.
Requirements
- Program & Portfolio Mindset: Proven experience overseeing and coordinating multiple concurrent projects or product initiatives, ideally (but not essentially) in an agency or fast-paced consulting environment.
- Stakeholder Acumen: Ability to influence, negotiate, and effectively manage expectations with senior-level stakeholders, translating client strategy into actionable program execution.
- Organizational Mastery: Exceptional organizational skills and acute attention to detail, necessary to manage budgets, resource allocation, and complex inter-dependencies across teams.
- Outcome Focus: A relentless focus on measurable business outcomes and quality of output, consistently seeking efficiency and driving continuous process improvement.
- Agile Knowledge: Strong practical understanding of Agile principles and how to apply them to complex programs.
- Strategic Problem Solver: Driven by a desire to deeply understand business problems and turn complex program challenges into clear execution plans.
- Fluent in English.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Hybrid working environment
- 26 days off + 1 additional day for every year working with OAK’S LAB (capped at 30 days)
- Top-of-the-line MacBook and hardware budget
- Budget to spend on your growth (books, courses, conferences)
- Free English lessons
- Team bonding, happy hours, online games, annual offsite trips
- Outside of work activity clubs (yoga, traveling, football, tennis, etc.)
- Snacks and drinks in the office, weekly lunch, monthly breakfast
- Landmark office right on Old Town Square (dog-friendly)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Agile principlesprogram managementportfolio managementrisk managementbudget managementresource allocationprocess improvementproject coordinationstakeholder managementexecution planning
Soft skills
organizational skillsattention to detailinfluencenegotiationcommunicationproblem solvingstrategic thinkingcross-functional coordinationclient managementoutcome focus