PM Lead

At WhiteTech, we empower businesses in the financial ecosystem with cutting-edge white-label and SAAS solutions.

Our comprehensive suite of tools is tailored for EMI, PSP, e-commerce, and open banking platforms. With WhiteTech, clients gain access to a platform designed for flexibility, scalability, and seamless integration.

Our mission is to help businesses unlock their full potential in a rapidly evolving financial landscape.

Whether scaling your PSP, enhancing your EMI services, or diving into open banking, WhiteTech is your partner for innovation and growth.

We are a remote-first technology company and welcome applications from candidates across Europe, including the EEA, the UK, Switzerland, and other non-EEA European countries such as Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Montenegro, Turkey, and the Western Balkans. We also consider applicants from different locations who can work within Central European Time (CET).

Your Role and Impact:

As a PM Lead at WhiteTech, you will drive the delivery of multiple product and technical streams across our FinTech initiatives. You will ensure visibility, predictability, alignment, and delivery control across teams, maintaining a strong understanding of product context, sprint execution, dependencies, and risks. Acting as a senior delivery layer above Project Managers, you will standardize execution practices, improve delivery discipline, and ensure teams operate in a structured, predictable, and business-aligned way.

This role requires a combination of program-level oversight and deep involvement in active delivery, ensuring no critical risks or blockers go unnoticed. You will collaborate closely with CEO, PMO, Product, Project Managers, BA, QA, and engineering teams.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Project Management Leadership

• Own delivery across assigned teams, modules, and initiatives
• Align PMs on planning, execution control, stakeholder communication, escalation handling, and delivery governance. 
• Mentoring & leading Project Managers
• Ability to improve processes and delivery standards

Execution & Product Ownership

• Stay deeply involved in sprint execution and task-level progress
• Identify & communicate risks, blockers, and delays early
• Connect execution with product context and business impact

• Build strong understanding of product areas, modules, and dependencies
• Maintain alignment with CEO, PMO, Product, and stakeholders

Planning & Coordination

• Manage delivery plans, milestones, and release commitments
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and collaboration
• Escalate risks and ensure clear ownership across teams

Scope and Prioritization Management

• Control scope and support prioritization decisions
• Work with Product, PMO / Delivery, CEO and other stakeholders to align priorities between teams and initiatives.
• Support decision-making regarding scope trade-offs, sequencing, and change impact.
• Help teams stay focused on the most business-critical work.

Release Readiness and Delivery Control

• Oversee release readiness across assigned teams and streams.
• Ensure that release plans, ownership, dependencies, QA readiness, and follow-up steps are clearly defined and tracked.
• Monitor release risks and make sure they are visible and acted upon before they affect delivery.

Metrics, KPIs and Reporting

• Ensure transparency across Jira, Confluence, and reporting tools
• Establish and maintain program-level delivery metrics, KPIs, and status indicators.
• Monitor delivery health and support data-driven decisions
• Improve processes, planning, and delivery governance

Process Improvement

• Identify recurring delivery issues, bottlenecks, and gaps in execution.
• Improve planning, status tracking, escalation flow, release preparation, and coordination practices.
• Support the development of stronger PM practices and more mature delivery processes across teams.
• Drive continuous improvement in execution standards and delivery governance.

What makes you stand out:

Experience:

• 5+ years in project/program/delivery management
• Experience managing multiple teams and cross-functional initiatives

Program and Delivery Skills:

• Strong multi-team delivery and dependency management
• Ability to balance str