Senior Digital Project Manager (Product)
Job Description
We’re looking for a super talented Digital Project Manager ideally with extensive experience in Product to join our Delivery Team. You will primarily focus on managing agile product builds for our innovative and high growth potential start ups.
Who are we?
We are an award winning digital product and growth agency. We help founders and brands create outstanding digital products and bring people to them. We do this by collaborating across digital Direction, Identity, Platforms and Growth to remove the barriers between ideas and adoption.
We use two tried and tested methodologies to de-risk and de-stress that process. This results in great partnerships behind products that get funded and have genuine impact in the world.
Where does this job fit into the organisation?
The role of the senior project manager is to bring teams together and to make things happen – it’s all about leading, empowering, facilitating and communicating. You will lead the delivery of product design & build projects, content creation, end-to-end digital campaigns and everything in between. This includes compiling project requirements, creating and managing project schedules and budgets, resourcing the right talent and tracking the progress of projects with the internal team.
How many projects will I be working on at a time?
We actively work with a range of clients, and you'll be focussed on one or more large product builds and pitches for new business.
What is the hardest part of this job?
You will need to be an expert at creative thinking, juggling priorities and working to tight deadlines in a fast-paced industry where things can change with little notice. There’s a lot of space to learn, grow, and supercharge your career.
What will my personal space be like?
Our Farringdon office is open-plan; you’ll have a spacious desk next to the rest of the delivery team with personal storage space. We have several spaces for collaboration, such as meeting rooms and sofas, as well as a kitchen and shower facilities on-site.
Job requirements
Key Competencies:
- Building Mobile app products/ digital products
- Managed tech, designers and various skill sets
- Lead large and complex projects, with significant budgets and multi-disciplinary teams
- Work with multidisciplinary internal teams to define project scopes, resource requirements and cost estimates for projects
- Experience with MoSCoW method of prioritisation
- A strong understanding of Agile PM methodologies and practices
- Experience with project tracking tools like JIRA or Forecast
- Experience with Slack and Trello
- Monitor project progress to ensure that projects remain on track: meet scope, meet deadlines and stay on budget
- Client liaison - communicating project progress and the impact of change with the internal accounts team, and directly to the client when required
- Push back when scope creep or suggested budgets are not realistic whilst understanding the constraints of the clientSet realistic expectations, define what success looks like for the client and Hex, and making it measurable.
- Promote empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project to make a meaningful contribution and collaborating with one another
What we’d like to see in you:
- A "can do" attitude
- Experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria and applying MoSCoW prioritisation
- Excellent communication skills with a professional verbal, written and presenting ability
- Able to easily adapt to changing circumstances
- Strong financial management skills (forecasting, revenue, margin etc)
- Willing to take ownership of solutions and confident in resolving project issues
- Attention to detail
- Creative thinker with an eye for excellent design
- Keeping calm under pressure
- Minimum three years digital project management experience, ideally in a fast paced agency environment
- Experience managing mid-large sized website, web app and/or mobile app projects
- Experience with producing other creative content such as video, illustration and copy