Senior Project Manager (Core/Product Development) Bucharest

Senior Project Manager (Core/Product Development)
Bucureşti
Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Our company delivers exceptional recruitment services on a global scale, presenting an innovative approach that connects candidates and clients seamlessly.

David Kennedy Recruitment is working with a leading B2B solution provider who are looking to recruit a Senior Project Manager (Product Development) for their growing list of clients/gaming operators.

• Position: Senior Project Manager
• Location: in one of the following locations: Belgrade, Serbia / Bucharest, Romania OR Riga, Latvia
• Employment type: Full-time
• Remuneration: Base salary.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Own the full project lifecycle – from early planning and scoping through execution, release, and continuous improvement.
• Drive collaboration across global, distributed teams, ensuring seamless coordination across time zones with both synchronous and asynchronous workflows.
• Unite Product, Design, Operations, and Engineering around shared objectives, building alignment and momentum to deliver at pace.
• Lead multiple
  - impact initiatives simultaneously, managing timelines, dependencies, and key milestones with precision.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, providing clarity on project updates, risks, and progress at every stage.
• Anticipate challenges before they arise, creating proactive mitigation strategies and strengthening project governance, documentation, and communication practices.
• Champion transparency, accountability, and delivery excellence, ensuring every project delivers measurable value to both business and end users

Requirements

• Fluent English (C1+), with outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• 10+ years of project management experience, including 2–3 years in a senior leadership role managing and mentoring other PMs
• Proven expertise collaborating across Product, Engineering, QA, UX, and Software Development, with a deep understanding of delivery lifecycles
• Strong track record of
  -
  - end project ownership – from business development handoff through to client rollout and
  - launch review.
• Skilled at building alignment across
  - functional teams (tech, product, operations, support, leadership) in complex,
  - paced environments.
• Highly organized and analytical, with a
  - oriented mindset and relentless focus on results.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills—able to drive consensus and inspire action without direct authority.
• Confident with
  - standard tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft 365.