Project Manager

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We’re looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our team at Futurice. You’d be working with our collaborative, cross-functional product teams to deliver intuitive, impactful and accessible digital solutions. We’d like to bring in someone who will take responsibility for achieving a client’s aims and make sure their experience of a project is as positive as the end result.

Sound like you?

• You have an interest in the transformative possibilities of digital projects and enjoy working with people to bring out the best in them.
• You like working with multi-disciplinary teams that include clients, designers, developers and user researchers.
• You understand and respect different disciplines, whilst helping the team function and progress as a single entity.
• You create momentum to help drive through uncertainty, and do this while keeping the project within time and budget constraints.
• You like the idea of a low hierarchy organisation and enjoy facilitating and organising sessions to promote collaboration.
• You make sure your teams are motivated, supported and happy.
• Project management qualifications would be advantageous.
• A keen interest in and familiarity with how software is built and delivered, including knowing when things are technically easy or difficult.

What you will be responsible for

• Managing projects from start to finish
• Release planning, estimation, capacity planning and managing project financials.
• Planning and helping to implement appropriate design and software development approaches (traditional, agile etc)
• Inform and consult clients how we are working
• Continuous improvement of team ways of working
• Clear communications with team and client, as well as creation of project tracking materials

What we care about

How we work – We’re a team of collaborators with a value of continuous improvement and always aim to encourage each other to get out of our comfort zone, experiment, reflect and learn together.

Our Culture – We are human first. Mutual respect and trust is an essential condition, as is passion, talent and energy. All team members need to be self-starters and have a desire to be part of a work culture with a lean, flat structure, built on a value of transparency.

Flexibility – Not a morning person? Need to pick up your kids from school? We believe in well-rested people doing concentrated and impactful work. Therefore, we have core hours and offer flexible working hours and locations.

What we can offer you

• Competitive salary benchmarked externally and internally for salary fairness: our Lead level banding is £50,000-£65,000
• Company pension contribution of 6% (increasing with tenure)
• Private health insurance with WPA
• 25 days of holidays + plus bank holidays and a day off for your birthday too. We offer a long service annual leave scheme of an additional day per year after three years’ unbroken service, up to a maximum of 30 days
• A tiered parental leave policy, which offers 16-weeks maternity full pay and 4- weeks partner full pay (dependant on your tenure)
• A Learning budget of £1200 per year for self initiated learning, books and training courses
• EV salary sacrifice (dependant on your tenure)
• A Learning budget of £1200 per year for self initiated learning, books and training courses
• A remote-first setup with two days per month to co-work together in London
• Team socials and group activities

Don’t worry about whether you’re a 100% fit! Take a look at what we do and what we've done and get in touch. Don’t just tell us where you’ve worked or studied, tell us who you are, where you are heading, and why you want to join us!

Our hiring process

Please send your CV and a brief covering letter explaining why you would like to work at Futurice UK to joinus@futurice.co.uk.

We usually follow the following format for interviews, currently all held remotely:

• 30min video/telephone call with our People Director
• 1hr interview with 2 people, a developer and a designer
• 1hr interview with 2 directors

Salary: £50,000-£65,000

Inclusion and diversity are critical to the success of Futurice, and we actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or any other protected category. We will offer interviews at times that suit your schedule and circumstances. Please get in touch if you have any questions or if there is anything we can do to make the process more accessible and convenient for you.