Digital Project Manager

SOON_ is looking for a Project Manager to join our production team, to help us build great digital products and services. We’re looking for someone who is proactive, methodical and organised with experience delivering digital products.

You should be comfortable working on complex, technical, projects and be flexible and adaptable to changing project requirements. You should be highly organised and able to maintain structure and clarity in all aspects of a project. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and experience working with clients in an agency environment. In addition to project management responsibilities, this role will also include elements of client handling, as well as delivering workshops (during project initiation and discovery) and encouraging cross-disciplinary team collaboration (design critiques and pairing).

What you will be doing

Working independently to manage and deliver multiple projects.

Working collaboratively with our team to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget.

Providing project governance utilising our project management tools, planning out projects and tracking progress.

Helping to deliver discovery processes and workshops (problem framing, identifying stakeholders and business requirements, personas and target audience and competitor research etc.) with the team and with our clients.

Communicating with our clients to keep them up to date, informed and happy.

Keeping the team organised and on track.

Maintaining clear and effective communication between all stakeholders.

Conducting meetings with senior stakeholders.

Requirements

3+ years experience as a Project Manager in a digital agency, creative company, digital start-up or product team.

An excellent communicator, comfortable building long term relationships with our clients.

Highly organised, process-driven and detail-oriented, capable of managing complex, fast-moving projects

You’ll need to know how to use Google Suite of tools (docs, sheets, slides) and you must be proficient with spreadsheets and competent with numbers and budgeting.

We use Linear but experience of any similar issue tracking tool (Jira, Asana, Trello etc) is required.

You'll need to know how to put together detailed project plans and Gantt charts.

It would be ideal if you've had any Scrum Master or Agile training (extra bonus points for any certification)

The mindset we are looking for

Love what you do; we really care about our clients and the work.

Love to learn; learning new things is what motivates all of us and is why we love the Web.

Be proactive; you get out what you put in.

Show talent; make us feel like we’ll never be that good.

Attention to detail; we worry, fret and polish till it’s right.

What you’ll get out of it

We’re a small company and a tight team - we work collaboratively, we share load, we have deep specialist experience but often blend roles.

We’re also a tech start-up   —  researching, prototyping and building our own products as part of our R&D process. You’ll be actively involved in this with opportunities to explore technologies you’re most interested in.

We pay fair London wages, encourage decent amounts of holiday and support remote and flexible working. To make sure our staff are as safe as possible during the pandemic, we are all working from home, with mature systems and processes in place that make this as easy as possible. In 2021 we’ll be making fresh decisions about how and where we work. It will be flexible, you’ll be allowed to work from home if you like it and there will be alternatives if you don’t.