Digital Project Manager - York

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Position: Digital Project Manager

Location: York

Salary: 25,000 - 30,000 per annum

Job type: Permanent

One of the North of Englands fastest growing digital agencies is looking for a technical project manager to join their team to manage the delivery of an array of web and mobile projects for organisations around the world.

Working in their offices in the heart of York, close to the train station and the city center, you will be working with a team of 30 people across design, development, business analysis, quality assurance and support to ensure the successful planning and delivery of projects.

They work with Laravel PHP, Java and Swift to produce cutting edge digital solutions to what are often complex specifications for front facing and back office systems.

The Role

As a technical project manager your responsibilities will include:

Managing projects through their full lifecycle, including working with sales and business analysts to map out a digital solutions from the beginning

Managing the scheduling of resources across a number of projects simultaneously

Working with clients to provide regular updates on the status of their project, including the potential for face to face meetings involving some travel - primarily to London

Production of feature documents, user stories and managing change requests. This could involve some wireframe production work alongside the business analyst.

Managing project scope, and ensuring potential future project phases are well documented

Ensuring a thorough understanding of client goals and objectives for the product, including a technical understanding where applicable

Gathering estimates and presenting these back to the client in a way to ensure they are accepted!

The Requirements

With the company growing at a very quick rate, many job roles change and adapt over time. You will also have the freedom to implement new processes, procedures and practices that are rolled out across the entire organisation - and are actively encouraged to do so.

Required

Agile experience

Experience of project management within a digital agency or in house development team, including briefing people across a variety of disciplines (design, testing, development)

Experience with stakeholder management

Experience producing functional and technical specification documents

Any experience with testing and QA

A confident, professional and client facing personality

Extreme organisation, and work well under pressure with high workloads and tight deadlines

Ideal

Converting client requests into technical solutions through wireframing, project specifications and design and development briefing documents and sessions.

Knowledge of development principles, technical systems architecture or other tech related experience

Experience of Jira, Slack, Balsamiq Mockups, Google Drive

Knowledge of the development lifecycle for mobile applications and web platforms using either waterfall or agile methodologies (we currently use a hybrid, but are more waterfall focussed).

Benefits

A competitive salary

Training where training is required

Team activity days - paintballing, regular drinks and other activities

Beer Fridays in the office

Office pool table and games consoles

An exciting and vibrant working environment Share options in new exciting company launched projects An ability to genuinely have an impact on an award winning agency thats going places.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Reasonably flexible on experience but looking for someone technical

Non-Negotiables skills:

Candidates must be comfortable/experienced speaking to clients on the phone and face to face

Experience of project management within a digital agency or in house development team, including briefing people across a variety of disciplines (design, testing, development)

Agile experience

Experience producing functional and technical specification documents

Good customer service qualities

KEY SKILLS

CSS 3, HTML 6, Git, Javascript

If you have further inquiries about this role, please dont hesitate to contact our office at: 02033717671