Position: Design Project Manager (Poland)
Company: Star
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

**THE OPPORTUNITY**
Building on an impeccable track record, Star has become the de-facto partner for startups and corporate innovation labs in the world’s tech hubs.
Turning great ideas into successful, mass-impact products takes a special kind of professionalism. We hire the top 5% of talent, capable of handling complex user experiences, design, and tackling the technical challenges inherent in new product development. We offer our crew keen attention to their long-term career progression through careful career planning, line management, mentorship, and coaching.

We’re looking for a proactive, diligent, and result-oriented PM for design-centric projects. You will help the design teams get from idea to tangible concept or live product by making sure time, scope, and budget are well accounted for. This role implies a high level of responsibility for timely delivery and happy teams and clients.

**THE PERSON**
**Qualifications & Experience:**
- Consulting skills, the ability to elaborate ideas, explain product concepts in a simple way and convey a technical vision to business people;
- Background working with design teams or being even a designer in the past;
- Ability to plan activities and create structure & organization in a fast-paced, changing environment;  
- Being the most pragmatic, but still a positive, person in the room and improving the team spirit at all times;
- Solid knowledge of software development methodologies, related tools, practices, standards and frameworks; and
- Advanced level of English. 
 
**Nice to have:**
- Previous roles include digital design agencies or innovation consultancies; 
- Experience in facilitating product ideation workshops;
- Experience in startups or product development from scratch; and 
- Knowledge of UX trends, standards and applicable practices.

**RESPONSIBILITIES:**
- Project management of several key projects  driven by the Design team at Star;
- Operational support for projects that need little intervention;
- Timely resolution of issues related to project planning; and
- Projects health status check and top risks tracking.

**… as part of the above:**
- Set customer expectations, hold internal contributors accountable for their deadlines and deliverables; 
- Proactively follow up with process participants;
- Manage project budget and team composition;
- Ensure the quality of the process and deliverables;
- Remove process bottlenecks; and
- Escalate and resolve issues.   
 

**COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS**
We offer a rewarding compensation and benefits package, an intellectually and creatively stimulating environment, professional flexibility, and unique international travel opportunities.

**Star is an Equal Opportunity Employer.** We believe that equity, diversity, and inclusion are key to our ability to provide our clients and crew members with unique business and career outcomes. Your race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability have no effect on our hiring decisions. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.