Strategic PMO Lead – Regulated Payments & Crypto

Paybis; Poland; On-site; PLN 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Courses & development budget

All tools & equipment

Team-building events

Paid lunches & parking at Riga office

Job summary

Paybis is seeking a PMO Lead to own planning, scheduling and delivery of strategic cross‑department initiatives across crypto custody, embedded banking, cards and licensing programmes. You will report to the CEO, with a dotted line to CTO and CPO, and build a two-person PMO.

This role requires taking the portfolio from the CEO, dating every initiative, surfacing slips and driving dependencies with Legal, Compliance, Data, Finance and IT. You will automate status and reporting wherever possible.

Qualifications

• Experience running cross-department programmes to committed dates in regulated payments or crypto.
• Experience building or running a lightweight PMO or portfolio function.
• Proven ability to automate project tracking and reporting with APIs and AI tools.
• Evidence of holding dates against a senior stakeholder and escalating on time.

Responsibilities

• Own portfolio board for strategic initiatives with dates, dependencies, risks and decisions pending.
• Run intake: one-page charter within five working days.
• Hold date discipline; dates move only via a logged change request.
• Get dependency commitments from Legal, Compliance, Data, Finance and IT within two working days.
• Run the escalation ladder and prepare the CEO's weekly portfolio review.
• Produce the weekly strategic-initiatives section of the management report and monthly portfolio review.
• Automate status collection, board sync and slip alerts with our monday.com, Confluence, Slack and AI stack.
• Run three to four strategic programmes personally; hire and manage one Project Manager.

Skills

Cross-Department Programs

PMO/Portfolio Management

Automation & AI tooling

Stakeholder management

Tools

monday.com

Jira

Confluence

APIs

Job description

Paybis is seeking a PMO Lead to own planning, scheduling and delivery of strategic cross‑department initiatives across crypto custody, embedded banking, cards and licensing programmes. You will report to the CEO, with a dotted line to CTO and CPO, and build a two-person PMO.

This role requires taking the portfolio from the CEO, dating every initiative, surfacing slips and driving dependencies with Legal, Compliance, Data, Finance and IT. You will automate status and reporting wherever possible.