Project Manager

Zaven is a software company from Wrocław, Poland. We build high-quality custom software for essential industries. Our focus is on practical results and trusting our people, not on strict rules or long processes. If you want to work with smart teams to build important software, and you want to avoid big company bureaucracy, this is the place for you.

Now we’re looking for an IT Project Manager to join our team on projects for one of our international clients.

What will you be doing?

• Project Management: End-to-end management of IT projects throughout their entire lifecycle – from the conceptual phase and discovery stage to deployment and project closure.

• Client & Business Relations: Managing day-to-day communication, progress reporting, expectation management, and building long-term relationships with international clients.

• Team Operations & Workflow: Ensuring smooth workflow within the development team, removing blockers, and facilitating Agile project events.

• Budget & Schedule Ownership: Defining and overseeing project schedules, budgets, and resource plans, ensuring full adherence to established goals.

• Risk & Change Management: Identifying potential project risks, responding to scope changes, and ensuring high quality and consistency of delivered solutions.

Required Skills & Experience:

• At least 5 years of experience as an IT Project Manager (software house environment is a plus).

• Hands-on knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and supporting tooling (Jira, Confluence).

• Proven track record of commercially delivering web or mobile application development projects.

• Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and ability to comfortably discuss architecture, technical concepts, and estimations with developers.

• Excellent interpersonal skills: outstanding self-organization, high empathy, assertiveness, and strong conflict-resolution abilities.

• Fluency in English (written and spoken), enabling seamless project delivery and direct communication with international clients.