Senior/Middle Project Manager

Location: Poland, Croatia, or other European countries; business-fluent German required. Reliable availability during CET/CEST core working hours and approximately ten on-site client meetings in Magdeburg are required.

Company

hirify.global is a custom software development company delivering software engineering, QA, R&D, design, technology consulting, and dedicated team services through 2,000+ professionals across Eastern European delivery centers and European and North American sales offices.

What you will do

• Manage and coordinate all project teams as the central customer contact.
• Create and maintain project management, milestone, and communication plans.
• Control scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, changes, and escalations, including the RAID log.
• Coordinate client, business, UX/UI, analysis, development, QA, DevOps, security, and external service provider collaboration.
• Facilitate sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, status, steering committee, and escalation meetings, plus daily alignment and weekly reporting.
• Coordinate requirements, acceptance, releases, UAT, approvals, go-live, hypercare, process introduction, and compliance with contractual, regulatory, data protection, and security requirements.

Requirements

• 4–5+ years of proven Project Manager experience in complex digital, web, portal, or CMS projects.
• 3+ years of practical experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach.
• Proven change management experience supporting organizational transformation initiatives.
• Experience managing agile, traditional, and hybrid delivery models, with practical knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, or comparable methodologies.
• Experience with sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, backlog management, and agile reporting.
• Experience managing schedules, budgets, quality, risks, dependencies, and escalations.
• Experience leading interdisciplinary and geographically distributed teams and communicating with executives, project leadership, business, IT, data protection, information security, and external providers.
• Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Project or similar planning tools.
• Business-fluent German at minimum C1 level; very good English for international project collaboration.
• Availability during CET/CEST core working hours and willingness and confirmed availability for approximately ten on-site meetings in Magdeburg.

Culture & Benefits

• Close cooperation with the customer and challenging project work.
• Competence development and a professional team.
• Ability to influence project technologies.
• Dynamic environment with a low level of bureaucracy.