Forward Deployed Product Manager (FDPM)

Krakow, Poland, hybrid, senior, full time, 5+ years

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BSS
JSON
Claude
Asana
Copilot
Cursor
Jira
OSS
Docker
REST APIs
Kubernetes
Gemini

About the role

Join LotusFlare as Forward Deployed Product Manager: embed with clients to map value, architect solutions, and drive fast, disciplined platform delivery.

The Forward Deployed Product Manager (FDPM) at LotusFlare is a high-impact role positioning elite professionals directly at the intersection of external clients, strategic business objectives, and internal platform engineering teams. This is a deeply technical and strategic role designed specifically for dynamic execution leaders who reject the traditional "meeting scheduler" or "status tracker" interpretation of project management.

The FDPM operates as an entrepreneurial, technical product manager embedded directly within a client's environment.

You are a unique blend of technical product manager, data strategist, solution architect, and execution engine. You are completely accountable for uncovering our client's most painful operational bottlenecks, defining robust platform solutions, writing granular technical requirements, protecting delivery margins (P&L), and driving unprecedented deployment velocity. Your mission is to transform raw enterprise complexity into highly polished production systems with relentless software rigor, making LotusFlare software absolutely indispensable to our clients' core business operations.

#### Three Core Pillars:

1. Strategic Discovery & Value Mapping (Uncover the "Why"):

Embed deeply within the client's operations and leadership structures to identify hidden system gaps, discover high-value business problems, and map precisely where LotusFlare software can drive the largest economic and operational impact.

2.Technical Analysis & Data Scoping (Own the "What"):

Operates as a Technical Analyst and 'Solution Architect Light'. Commands technical alignment workshops with client technical architects and internal development crews. Drives alignment around API contracts, service schemas, system boundaries, and low-level data flows without needing to write production code blocks.

3.High-Velocity Project Execution (Drive the "How"):

Acts as the primary operational anchor for absolute scope delivery. Orchestrates cross-functional tracks (Engineering, UX/UI, QA, and CareOps), surfaces hidden risks, and establishes modern working structures to enable rapid software iterations directly with end users.

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What they are looking for

* Experience: 5+ years of software implementation experience operating as a Technical Product Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer/Architect, Management/Technical Consultant, or Senior Technical Project Manager handling large-scale, complex enterprise systems integrations.

* Technical Acumen: Strong foundational fluency in cloud-native microservices architectures, REST APIs, JSON schemas, containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes), and database technologies. Must possess the technical competence to lead complex data and architectural design sessions confidently without needing to write production code.

* Telecom Domain Expertise: Robust knowledge of telecom frameworks (BSS/OSS architecture) with hands-on experience executing massive digital transformation programs across customer management, digital commerce, billing, activation, or network orchestration.

* Thriving in Ambiguity: An intense, entrepreneurial ownership mindset with a proven ability to operate with extreme autonomy in flat, fast-paced corporate environments. Comfortable making highly confident decisions under deeply uncertain, rapidly shifting conditions.

* Consultative Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Elite capability to ask deep, analytical, first-principles questions (management consulting style), challenge legacy system constraints gracefully, and instantly structure chaotic business challenges under pressure.

* AI Tool Integration: Demonstrated competency or high enthusiasm for integrating Generative AI developer environments and tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude, Copilot, Gemini) into daily professional workflows to automate documentation, analyze complex data sets, and massively scale individual output.

* Global Mobility & Rigor: Exceptional diligence with the flexibility to collaborate effectively across highly distributed international time zones (North America, Europe, and Asia hubs), and a willingness to travel to client deployment sites to embed directly with operations when critical milestones dictate.

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