Job Description

Senior Technical Project Manager (Digital Product)

Who You Are:

• You're a project manager with at least 6 years of commercial experience managing digital product development projects
• You've come from a technical background in software or hardware engineering and discovered your ability to manage a project and bring the team along to deliver on time and on budget (or somewhere close!)
• You've been through the time, spec and cost trenches and have emerged wiser and excited to put your lessons learned into practice
• You know your project management craft and can support it with judicious use of the right tools and processes to fit different types of projects
• You're an initiator. Rather than tell people what to do, you draw attention to actions that must be taken for the project goals to be met
• You're hands on, you roll your sleeves up and get stuck in, you don't expect others to do the work for you but you know when and how to collaborate with others to get things done
• You are always looking for ways to improve how you work and how the team works
• You've mentored, or managed, more junior team members and have enabled them to do great work and grow through experience and guidance
• You have experience of working without boundaries, and in fact thrive in environments where you can be instrumental in navigating through the ambiguity to deliver a project
• The idea of working within a successful startup in a fast-paced role excites you

What You Will Do:

• Organise the project team: it's an accomplished team, but they still need pointing in the right direction at the right time
• Activity and resource planning: work with the team to determine what needs to be done, by who and when
• Develop the budget: how much? That much
• Analyze and manage project risk: take a risk based approach and guide the whole project team to focus on the high risk elements of the project and as a result deliver the goods
• Surface problems early: things don't always go to plan, but the quicker the problems are identified, the quicker they can be solved
• Find creative solutions, together: get the right team members talking at the right time to help them get to where they need to be
• Monitor progress: know where the project is at any moment

Educating, explaining and supporting

• Provide overviews, or nuanced and detailed analysis of project progress, to both technical and non-technical people to explain outcomes and facilitate decision making
• Guide the project team through the good times and the bad - help establish meaningful milestones and provide motivation when it's needed
• Help the team learn from their successes and their failures with retrospectives
• Mentor, coach and help to develop project management team members
• Help develop ways of working for your team and the business, based upon the needs of the project and the people you are working with

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

At least 6 years of commercial experience managing digital product development projects Experience of agile software development and corresponding methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban Understanding of controlled and dependency based project management methodologies such as PRINCE2, and/or APM PMQ Experience with tools for different styles of project management e.g Jira, Pivotal Tracker, Asana, SmartSheet, MS Project Excellent problem solving skills Experience of working with cross functional teams and understanding of the benefit of truly coordinated activities Experience dealing with all the stakeholders on a project from the in-house teams - software dev, engineering, finance, sales, operations - to external contractors and senior management Excellent communication skills, both technical and non-technical with the ability to write reports, present, and discuss results