Product Owner / Project Manager - Product Owner, Project Management

Job Description:

Edgewing

By joining Edgewing, you will have a unique opportunity to help shape the company from the ground up - setting the foundations for generations to come, influencing how we work, and helping us build something world-class together. At Edgewing, we’re united by a shared purpose to drive what’s next in defence. Uniting UK, Italian, and Japanese expertise to shape the future of global defence. With trust at the heart of everything we do, we empower our people to dare to go beyond, bring their best as one, and leave a mark that matters on a truly global mission, making a lasting impact through work that truly matters.

Role Description

The Product Owner / Project Manager (PO/PM) is accountable for maximizing the value delivered by the product team and ensuring the end-to-end delivery of high-quality, user centric outcomes. This hybrid role requires balancing strategic product ownership—shaping vision, defining prioritization, and driving value—with structured project leadership, ensuring governance, timely delivery, and alignment with wider program objectives.

As the central connection point between stakeholders, users, and the delivery team, the PO/PM translates business objectives into a clear product vision, maintains a transparent and prioritized product backlog, and ensures the team understands the rationale behind each feature. Simultaneously, the role leads project planning, risk and issue management, cross-team coordination, and stakeholder communication to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery.

Key Accountabilities

• 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 and Experience

Essential

- 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.

Engagement, recognition of talent, and care for our people’s well-being and safety are the cornerstones of our corporate culture.

Every day, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and stimulating work environment, actively promoting the principles of inclusion, equity, and diversity.

What do we offer?

·         The applicable collective labour agreement is the Italian National Collective Labour Agreement (CCNL) for the Private Metalworking Industry and Plant Installation Sector;

·         Hybrid working model;

·         Employment status: Executive-level employee;

·         Permanent contract with Italy as the base location;

·         The role includes a secondment of at least two years to Reading, the headquarters of the Joint Venture (JV);

·         13th-month salary;

·         Performance bonus linked to business results;

·         Annual welfare benefits worth €250;

·         Ongoing training and professional development opportunities, covering both technical and soft skills;

·         Well-being initiatives: we place great importance on the economic, physical, social, and psychological well-being of our people, offering solutions tailored to their needs.

The Company reserves the right to determine the employment grade and compensation package based on objective criteria identified during the selection process, taking into account the selected candidate’s seniority, experience, and the requirements of the role, in compliance with the principles of fairness, transparency, and equal opportunities established by applicable laws and regulations.

How does the selection process work?

Following the application review process, the CVs that best match the required qualifications will be shortlisted.

Selected candidates will first take part in an introductory interview with the Human Resources team to assess motivation and soft skills, followed by a technical interview with the hiring team.

At the end of the selection process, all candidates will receive feedback, regardless of the outcome.

Seniority:

Senior

Primary Location:

IT - Roma - Via Laurentina

Additional Locations:

IT - Chieti Scalo, IT - Firenze - Campi Bisenzio, IT - Genova - Fiumara, IT - Napoli - Pomigliano, IT - Torino - C.so Marche

Contract Type:

Permanent

Total Base Pay Range:

60-75k

Hybrid Working:

Hybrid