Digital Producer / Project Manager

As a natural collaborator and team player with a passion for purposeful and playful experiences, you effortlessly lead and guide your teams to success. Your organisational skills, preparation, and attention to detail keep projects on track, within scope, and on budget. A clear and concise communicator, you strike the perfect balance between assertiveness and friendliness, fostering excellent client and team relationships.

You’re an exceptional Project Manager who knows the ins and outs of managing external clients and project teams. With a strong background in software development, you’re well-versed in project methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall and you confidently take the lead in client and internal meetings. Your proficiency in project planning tools like JIRA ensures that work is meticulously planned and executed efficiently.

If you’re efficient, highly organised and possess a solid understanding of digital products, we can’t wait to have you on our team! Join us at fish in a bottle and become an integral part of our impressive 20-year success story. Whether you’ve managed web builds, app projects, or games projects, we want to hear from you!

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced, high performing Project Manager, ideally from an agency background.

You’ll be managing exceptionally talented creative and technical teams working across a wide range of clients from big name global brands to exciting tech start-ups, in the delivery of a variety of digital projects, including web platforms, apps and games.

Working closely with clients and development teams, this is an opportunity for a client centric, motivated and organised Producer / Project Manager to really have a huge impact.

Key responsibilities

• End-to-end project delivery, from pitch to final delivery
• Resource planning and scheduling of projects
• Working collaboratively with the studio leads to scope and estimate projects and ensure quality is high
• Ensure projects are being delivered on time on budget and reviewed against scope
• Running client meetings ensuring objectives are being met – including assessing project risks, change control and escalating issues
• Building a strong partnership with your clients – ensuring communication is regular, clear and work is collaborative
• Keeping the team on track and motivated
• Financial reporting including project overrun / underrun, work in progress, raising and tracking spend against purchase orders etc.

Our mission is to make the world better through playable experiences.

For over twenty years we’ve collaborated with visionary innovators, brands and educators, making us one of the most experienced interactive studios in the world.

We work with visionaries to create commercial hits, award winners and purposeful products that improve people’s lives.

We create games, apps and web platforms that educate, train, raise awareness, promote social change and positively impact people’s lives.

To apply for this role please hit the APPLY FOR POSITION button below.

Please submit your CV and ensure that your application includes examples of your experience of:

• Project management responsibilities, number of projects and clients managed at any one time, team size and structure
• Project / resource planning – including tools used to plan projects you’ve managed
• How you go about financial tracking of projects and reporting on profitability
• Knowledge of project management methodologies

This is a remote working position open to anyone eligible to work in the UK. There is the need to travel from time to time to attend client and company meetings. Please consider your ability to travel occasionally when applying for this position.

We carefully review each application, but unfortunately we’re not able to get back to everyone individually. If we’d like to progress with your application we’ll be in touch with you within two weeks.

If you’re from a recruitment agency we won’t be taking things any further. Direct candidates only please.

We are committed to promoting equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively, we uphold these principles in our behaviour and working practices. We are therefore committed to promoting equality at every opportunity and our recruitment and employment practices and procedures actively promote equality of opportunity.