Strategic Program Manager - Cross-Functional Initiatives

Frontiers Careers; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office presence

Wellbeing days

Volunteering days

Employee Assistance Programme

Learning & development support

Job summary

Frontiers, based in Warsaw, Poland, seeks a Project Manager to coordinate cross-functional strategic initiatives across Product, Editorial, Technology, Marketing, and Operations.

You will document plans, roadmaps, risk registers, and progress updates, drive structured planning, and champion AI-powered productivity tools to improve planning and reporting while aligning with strategic priorities.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in project management or PMO roles.
• Experience delivering cross-functional projects or programs.
• Ability to structure priorities in fast-moving environments.
• Strong delivery across initiation, planning, execution, and closure.
• Experience with project scheduling, risk management, dependency tracking, and status reporting.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication at all levels.
• Familiarity with OKR-based delivery and program planning.
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Proficient in Microsoft 365, Jira, Confluence, and collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate multiple concurrent projects and strategic initiatives with clear priorities.
• Develop and maintain project charters, plans, schedules, roadmaps, risk registers, and status reports.
• Own and maintain the program's knowledge management in Confluence.
• Facilitate planning sessions, steering committees, retrospectives, and executive updates.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement across projects.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Agile & Waterfall

Jira & Confluence

Microsoft 365

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft 365

Job description

Frontiers, based in Warsaw, Poland, seeks a Project Manager to coordinate cross-functional strategic initiatives across Product, Editorial, Technology, Marketing, and Operations.

You will document plans, roadmaps, risk registers, and progress updates, drive structured planning, and champion AI-powered productivity tools to improve planning and reporting while aligning with strategic priorities.