Hybrid Product Owner & Project Lead – Global Defence

Leonardo S.p.A.; Campi Bisenzio; Hybrid; EUR 60.000 - 75.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

13th-month salary

Performance bonus

Annual welfare benefits €250

Ongoing training and development

Zusammenfassung

Edgewing is seeking a Senior Product Owner / Project Manager to drive end-to-end product delivery in a hybrid Italian setting, with a two-year secondment to Reading, UK. You will translate business objectives into a clear product vision, manage a prioritized backlog, and coordinate across architecture, engineering, security, and QA to ensure timely, high-quality delivery.

The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on delivery and governance in a collaborative environment.

Qualifikationen

• Strong product management capability, including vision setting, prioritisation, and value driven decision-making.
• Excellent backlog management skills with the ability to decompose work into clear, actionable features, epics, and user stories.
• Balancing technical, business, compliance, and risk considerations when making prioritisation decisions.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills, able to bridge the gap between users, business teams, and technical delivery.
• Proven ability to facilitate cross functional collaboration across architecture, engineering, security, testing, and business analysis teams.
• High degree of analytical thinking, able to translate business problems into structured product and delivery needs.
• Ability to manage conflict, resolve ambiguity, and drive clarity in complex delivery environments.

Aufgaben

• Maximise product value by shaping and maintaining a clear, user centric product vision aligned to business objectives.
• Maintain a transparent, prioritised product backlog that reflects strategic priorities, stakeholder needs, technical considerations, and user outcomes.
• Translate business goals into well-defined‑ features, epics, and user stories, ensuring the team understands the purpose and expected value behind each item.
• Lead structured project planning, ensuring delivery governance, milestone clarity, and alignment with wider programme objectives.
• Manage risks, issues, and dependencies proactively to protect delivery predictability and quality.
• Act as the central liaison between users, stakeholders, and delivery teams, ensuring consistent communication, alignment, and shared understanding.
• Coordinate cross functional‑ collaboration with architecture, engineering, security, business analysis, testing, and other delivery partners.
• Uphold quality standards by validating that delivered increments meet acceptance criteria, user needs, and programme expectations.
• Ensure timely, high-quality‑delivery through strong oversight of progress, escalation of blockers, and evidence based‑decision-making‑.
• Drive continuous improvement by leveraging retrospectives, feedback loops, and delivery insights to refine processes, team performance, and product outcomes.

Kenntnisse

Product management

Backlog management

Prioritisation

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Conflict resolution

Jobbeschreibung

Edgewing is seeking a Senior Product Owner / Project Manager to drive end-to-end product delivery in a hybrid Italian setting, with a two-year secondment to Reading, UK. You will translate business objectives into a clear product vision, manage a prioritized backlog, and coordinate across architecture, engineering, security, and QA to ensure timely, high-quality delivery.

The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on delivery and governance in a collaborative environment.