Remote Freelance Product Manager — Delivery & Strategy

AREA 17; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 83,000 - 138,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Paris studio access

AREA 17 Talent Community

Job summary

AREA 17 is seeking an experienced Freelance Product Manager to lead delivery on client engagements across digital product builds and brand projects. You’ll partner with Brand, Experience and Technology teams to bring structure to ambiguity, keep teams and clients aligned, and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery with high quality.

You’ll join projects already in motion, ramp up quickly, and lead from day one, with strong emphasis on scoping, backlog creation, and risk management.

Qualifications

• 4+ years delivering complex digital products in agency, consultancy, or product-led environments.
• Strong project management: planning, scheduling, budget tracking, and multi-workstream handling.
• Proven client management: leading meetings, managing expectations, and communicating changes.
• Comfortable making scope/timeline trade-offs in ambiguity.
• Pragmatic grasp of agile practices; fluency in Jira and Confluence.
• Solid understanding of web technologies and APIs; assess feasibility with engineering.
• Aim for high design and product quality; clear communicator for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery planning: scope, milestones, sequencing, priorities.
• Translate experience strategy and architecture into clear backlogs for the team.
• Make timely trade-offs across scope, timeline, and quality; escalate risks as needed.
• Serve as the client’s day-to-day delivery partner; align on progress, risks, decisions.
• Lead demos, workshops, and feedback reviews; document outcomes.
• Identify risks and dependencies early and drive mitigation with the team.
• Run delivery rituals and maintain artifacts that keep priorities visible.

Skills

Delivery management

Project planning

Stakeholder management

Agile practices

Jira

Confluence

Web APIs

Product quality

Clear communication

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

AREA 17 is seeking an experienced Freelance Product Manager to lead delivery on client engagements across digital product builds and brand projects. You’ll partner with Brand, Experience and Technology teams to bring structure to ambiguity, keep teams and clients aligned, and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery with high quality.

You’ll join projects already in motion, ramp up quickly, and lead from day one, with strong emphasis on scoping, backlog creation, and risk management.