Strategic Product Owner & Project Lead - Hybrid

Leonardo S.p.A.; Roma; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Executive-level employment

Permanent contract (Italy base)

Secondment to Reading (JV)

13th-month salary

Performance bonus

Annual welfare benefits

Training and professional development

Well-being initiatives

Job summary

Leonardo S.p.A. in Italy is seeking a Product Owner / Project Manager (PO/PM) to maximise product value and lead end-to-end delivery of high-quality, user-centric outcomes.

This hybrid role balances strategic product ownership with structured project leadership, aligning with wider programme objectives. You will translate business objectives into a clear product vision, maintain a prioritised backlog, and ensure the team understands the rationale behind each feature while coordinating

Qualifications

• 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.
• Skilled in 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Product management

Backlog management

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Conflict resolution

Job description

Leonardo S.p.A. in Italy is seeking a Product Owner / Project Manager (PO/PM) to maximise product value and lead end-to-end delivery of high-quality, user-centric outcomes.

This hybrid role balances strategic product ownership with structured project leadership, aligning with wider programme objectives. You will translate business objectives into a clear product vision, maintain a prioritised backlog, and ensure the team understands the rationale behind each feature while coordinating