Project Manager
We are looking for a highly organized and proactive Project Manager to join our team. This role involves working closely with team members to ensure project goals are achieved on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
Our ideal candidate is someone who thrives in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, and takes initiative to seek out information, knowledge, and development, proactively.
• Planning and synchronizing releases - creating realizable roadmaps, ensuring synchronization of design and development teams to achieve goals on time
• Managing the development process - selecting and adapting methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.), tracking progress in Jira, removing blockers, and maintaining a productive pace of work
• Communicating with stakeholders - collecting requirements from product and marketing teams, turning them into clear tasks, and regularly reporting on status, risks, and next steps
• Managing risks and quality - predicting possible problems (technical, resource, legal, communication), initiating preventive actions, and monitoring compliance with QA standards at every stage
• Optimizing processes and tools - identifying bottlenecks in processes and SDLCs, conducting analysis and retrospectives to improve performance, implementing new approaches and automation that optimize time-to-market
• Tracking key metrics - keeping a finger on the pulse of the budget and key team performance metrics, sharing insights that help the team make the project faster and more sustainable
• Participating in PMO process initiatives - contributing to the development and implementation of PMO initiatives to optimize delivery processes, initiating, adapting, and implementing process changes that meet the company's strategic goals and maximize team productivity
• People Management - supporting of Front-end and Back-end developers, individual meetings to identify development needs, goal setting, motivation support, and evaluation of results
What you’ll need:
• End-to-end Project Planning — experience in creating release roadmaps, WBS, critical path, and backlog refinement
• Practical experience in Agile methodologies — deep understanding of Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban, ability to adapt methods for different phases of product development and teams
• Delivery tools — Jira (advanced workflows, dashboards, JQL), Confluence / Notion
• Mobile and Web development basics — understanding of iOS/Android release lifecycle, App Store / Google Play submission, web deployment, and CDN; knowledge of where cross-platform dependencies most often "misfire"
• Risk Management — experience in creating risk registers (technical, resource, communication), forecasting potential problems developing mitigation plans, and monitoring risks throughout the project lifecycle
• Quality Management — experience in controlling the defect lifecycle, ensuring compliance with quality standards at all project stages
• Budget Control — experience in planning and managing project budgets, optimizing costs, and efficiently using resources to achieve maximum results
• Knowledge of team performance metrics and experience in their analysis — understanding of key metrics such as lead time, cycle time, and burndown chart, and experience in analyzing them to evaluate team performance
Interview with a recruiter → Technical interview → Final interview → Reference check → Offer
We Offer:
• Mental and Physical Health: health care is a must, so at JatApp, we will cover health insurance for you
• Benefits Cafeteria: choose what you like most — sports, food delivery, home office supplies — and we will cover your expenses under available budget
• Knowledge sharing: in addition to internal events, you will have access to the Projector library
• Remote-First Culture: it’s up to you whether to work remotely or at our coworking space
• Personal Equipment Policy: for sure, you will have everything you need to work efficiently
• Learning and Development Opportunities: it's a real pleasure for us to watch you learn, so we're happy to cover your learning and development costs, as well as English courses
• Community of like-minded people: at JatApp, you will work in a team of like-minded people who are ready to launch a product, run a marathon, or climb Hoverla together
• Creative freedom: we encourage initiative and creative thinking, so with us, you can be yourself and have the freedom of professional expression
• Legal & Finance Support: we cooperate with the best financiers and lawyers who will be ready to help solve any of your questions upon request
• Time-off Policy: 20 vacation days per year, 5 days for sick leave without medical confirmation, unlimited sick leaves with a doctor's note, 3 personal days, and 2 days off for special events or occasions