Do you enjoy leading projects and collaborating with great teams and clients?
As a Project Manager at Povio, you’ll play a key role in making sure software development projects run smoothly. You’ll work closely with our clients and internal teams to ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with business goals.
About UsBorn at Y Combinator - the legendary startup accelerator that launched Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox - Povio has grown from a small team into an international agency. We help startups and established companies design, build, and scale digital products that make an impact.
We’ve worked with clients ranging from early-stage founders to global names like Volkswagen, Serena Williams, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. No matter the industry, we collaborate with ambitious teams that are building something meaningful.
What You'll Do:- Plan and manage project timelines, budgets, scope, and resources.
- Define project requirements in collaboration with clients and translate them into clear, actionable plans.
- Oversee day-to-day execution, ensuring the team knows what’s next and why.
- Set and track goals, deliverables, and deadlines to ensure successful project completion.
- Coordinate with designers, developers, QA engineers, and external partners.
- Keep the team motivated and address conflicts promptly.
- Communicate regularly and transparently with clients, providing updates, gathering feedback, and managing expectations.
- Identify opportunities to add value or expand work, collaborating with the team to upsell new features or services.
- Assess risks, analyze issues, and find practical solutions.
- Maintain hands-on involvement with project documentation and reporting.
- Contribute to team-wide improvements and share best practices across projects.
- 5+ years of experience leading client-facing digital and software development projects from concept to delivery.
- Proficiency in English, including reading, writing, and speaking.
- Strong understanding of how digital products are built, from product strategy and design to architecture, development lifecycle, QA, and deployment.
- Proactive and solution-oriented individual, able to identify problems early and act without prompting.
- Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, ideally in a fast-paced or agency environment.
- Confident in managing project scope, timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure successful delivery.
- Ability to communicate effectively between technical teams and business stakeholders, leading meetings, clarifying decisions, and keeping teams aligned.
- Flexible and adaptable working hours to support project needs when required.
- Understanding of Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum) and hands-on experience applying them in practice.
- A passion for technology and a strong desire to stay up to date with industry trends.
- Exciting Projects: Collaborate with world-leading companies, Hollywood stars, and influential startups, including The Pump by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Serena Williams, Volkswagen, and the founder of Reddit.
- Expert Team: Work with a select group of skilled professionals who are passionate and driven.
- Dynamic Environment: Be part of a fast-paced, innovative company where your work makes a direct impact.
- Competitive Compensation: Enjoy a package that reflects your expertise and contributions.
- Hybrid workspace
If you’re a motivated Project Manager based in Slovenia or Kosovo and looking to grow your career, we’d love to hear from you.
Have questions? Feel free to reach out to Andjela at [email protected]. She’ll be happy to help.
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What We Do
Povio is a San Francisco based design and development company building digital products that create a positive impact. With over 1000 successfully delivered projects and 200+ skilled professionals, we have worked together with multinationals like Volkswagen, unicorns like Flexport, and notable personalities like Serena Williams. We are a Y Combinator Winter 2014 company, backed by funds like Social Starts and angel investors like Pete Cashmore, founder of Mashable. This year we were also recognized as one of the top 100 highest-growing B2B service providers by Clutch. Our goal is to make building software a great, quick, and delightful experience for our clients and team members. This is why our projects are not only delivered by experienced senior engineers and designers but are also always backed up by the best project managers and quality assurance analysts. If you are an adventurous job seeker, we've got plenty of different roles to offer you. At Povio, you will get the opportunity to work on Silicon Valley projects that matter and develop cutting-edge technology. Our tech stack is focused on, but not limited to: JavaScript (React, Angular, Node.js, React Native) iOS (Swift) Android (Kotlin) Ruby (Ruby on Rails) Java (Spring) DevOps Quality and deadlines are never compromised with us, whether it’s bringing our client's fresh idea to life or improving the quality of an existing project.
