Job Description

Novoville is looking to hire a motivated Technical Project Manager to help guide us through our new wave of growth. We are looking for someone with high focus and understanding of Jira along with our internal agile ceremonies required to deliver software in a fast-paced environment in need to react to changing requirements. We have been growing from a startup to an established scale-up fighting the strange animal called GovTech.

Requirements

As a key member of our product team, you will own the translation of business, product and technical requirements into structured, actionable engineering work. You'll need a growing understanding of the Novoville solution portfolio to ensure we deliver high quality outcomes to our customers. Over time, you'll act as a bridge between commercial commitments and engineering execution, helping align contracts, timelines and product direction.

You will get help from our chief strategists before you go out chasing the implementation team. This means you'll be responsible for the refinement and planning of the workload of our engineers. Eventually we anticipate you will know enough to also have a strong opinion with prioritisation. You will facilitate the sessions that ultimately result in well planned tickets in one of our development sprints.

We value ownership, so over time, you will be guiding our Product team towards the routines that work best for you and the company.

A typical set of duties includes:

• Working with internal and external stakeholders (strategists, account managers, project managers, clients) to collect and understand requirements (technical, functional, product and timeline-related). This includes an ongoing relationship with Project Managers to ensure contractual obligations and deadlines are reflected in delivery plans.
• Translating collected requirements into well-defined epics, Jira tickets and workflows. Ensuring tickets are clear, prioritised and ready for deployment.
• With the help of a few of us updating and maintaining our product roadmap.
• Preparing and hosting our Roadmap Refinement meetings.
• Hosting our Sprint Planning meetings.
• Following-up with our engineers daily to anticipate or resolve blockers in their work.
• Eventually feeling like a product owner for problem-specific discussions.

After a few weeks we expect:

• Developing a strong understanding of the Novoville product and solution landscape.
• Having an amazing time watching our brilliant people arguing, pulling their hair out, making up and then celebrating our many upcoming victories together.

Skills:

• Solid experience in an Agile Project-Management role. JIRA is our tool of choice.
• Understanding the language of product owners.
• Acting with a solution architect mindset-understanding how different parts of our solution portfolio fit together.
• Ability to translate complex requirements into structured engineering work.
• Experience in working closely with people: for us these are the engineering, product, and commercial teams.
• Any background in software-development will make everything easier.
• Social skills that will allow you to work with teams of at least 15 engineers.
• Excellent spoken and written English as our team resides in three countries (GR, CY & UK).
• Very high energy and conflict-resolution culture.

What we value:

• Understanding the specifics of remote-work. People no longer see each other all the time.
• Soft skills. A positive and friendly attitude is essentially to keep a team happy and productive. Strong collaboration skills-ability to align diverse stakeholders.
• Ownership and accountability in driving delivery.
• Drive. Learning ways to build better products and feeling like a product owner.
• An engineering mindset. We are here to solve problems.

Benefits

• Influence directly the product specification and roadmap.
• A salary that will keep you happy.
• Access to the stock-options scheme.
• A chance to join an international team.
• A supportive environment where people grow together