Kickbase is Europe’s leading real-time fantasy football experience. We help millions of fans engage with football through data, emotion and live action. Our product is growing fast — and our Product team plays a central role in shaping its future through clarity, collaboration and user-centric decision-making.
We’re looking for a Product Manager with strong technical understanding who works closely with our developers and engineering leads. This role combines classic Product responsibilities with deep involvement in the engineering process — ensuring smooth sprint delivery, excellent cross-functional clarity and fast, reliable execution. You will work side-by-side with our existing Product Manager, Engineering Leads, Design, Research and Growth.
DEVELOPER-FOCUSED PRODUCT DELIVERY
Coordinate and structure development sprints together with our Engineering Leads.
Translate user needs and product ideas into clear, actionable and technically feasible requirements.
Clarify edge cases, resolve open questions and remove blockers for developers.
Maintain a clean, prioritized and technically realistic backlog.
Align timelines, dependencies and expectations across teams.
PRODUCT DISCOVERY & FURTHER DEVELOPMENT
Identify opportunities based on user behaviour, research insights, data and community feedback.
Shape features end-to-end: from problem definition to specification and final delivery.
Write clear product specs, user flows and acceptance criteria.
Ensure roadmap alignment with company strategy and quarterly objectives.
Balance user needs, technical constraints and business goals.
COLLABORATION & CROSS-FUNCTIONAL ALIGNMENT
Create clarity, transparency and momentum for designers, developers and stakeholders.
Build a strong partnership with Engineering and Product to ensure coherent, high-quality execution.
Communicate progress, risks and decisions clearly across teams.
Foster a culture of impact, focus and continuous improvement.
3+ years of experience in Product Management for consumer apps, ideally in an agile environment.
Strong technical understanding: APIs, mobile app architecture, data flows and tooling.
Hands-on experience collaborating closely with engineering teams.
You excel at structuring sprints, writing clear tickets and coordinating delivery.
Excellent communication skills in English — you can translate complexity into clarity.
Well-organized, reliable and comfortable managing multiple stakeholders.
You are proactive, adaptive and enjoy working in fast-moving environments.
You use and challenge digital products daily and care deeply about product quality.
Based in or willing to work regularly from Osijek — strong preference for on-site collaboration with our developers.
Proficient in Croatian (big plus).
Proficient in German (nice-to-have).
Experience in mobile-first or gaming-related products.
Former developer or technical background (bonus).
Interest in football and/or fantasy sports.
🚀 Besides our competitive compensation package, we offer company-funded pension plan, continuous training possibilities, one additional vacation day on top of your contractual holidays for each year you are with us (max 30), X-Mas-closing-week, awesome team events, company fitness, health checkups and not to forget a team that feels like a group of friends.
👨🏼💻👩🏼💻 You are a remotee and experiencing home office fatigue? We just opened a new workspace in Osijek! But you also have flextime, remote work and workation.
👣 Our people-first management approach and transparent career paths will give you the opportunity to grow your career like never before.
⚖️ Working overtime is something we only know from football – a healthy work-life balance is a key to success and we’ll support you with that!
Please submit the following documents with your application:
Letter of motivation
CV
Work and degree certificates
We ask for your understanding that we can only consider complete applications.