Senior Technical Project Manager

Role

As a Senior Digital Project Manager, you will be working with project teams to deliver OTT/CTV solutions to our clients. These teams are typically made up of engineers, QAs, designers, product managers and you

You'll be using your excellent planning and communication skills to deliver solutions and report on project progress and outcomes to the FX leadership team and our clients.

You will be the first Project Manager in our Barcelona office, so you must be a good communicator, comfortable to hit the ground running and work independently.

Please note that we are closed for the Christmas break from 24 December to 1 January inclusive. We appreciate your patience and kindly ask you to allow for a delay in our response to your application during this time.

What you'll do

Project Management

• Own the entire project process from conception through planning, development, QA, and final delivery, ensuring accurate specification and efficient execution of projects.
• Help implement our internal processes and ceremonies to ensure the effective delivery of projects.
• Lead the gathering of requirements and collate briefs on new projects. Create project plans, estimations, CRs, functional specs, and any other project documentation.
• Communicate project details and deadlines clearly within the delivery team, reporting to all internal project stakeholders.
• Report on the progress and outcomes of projects to the Head of Project Management, including financial performance and forecasting.
• Report to the Head of Project Management on team performance, wellbeing and strengths/opportunities.
• Attend training and events to ensure continued self-improvement.

Account Direction

• Make sure our clients stay in love with us. Maintain the open and colleague-like relationship we already have and find new ways for them to love us even more.
• Problem solve and manage any challenges to a positive outcome.
• Deliver projects that meet customer requirements and exceed expectations.

Business Development

• Keep an ear to the ground for any business opportunity that might be of interest to the business - both with existing clients and new ones.
• Help respond to requests for proposals (RFPs) by working with relevant team members where needed.

Team Leadership

• Be a figure of respect within the FX team, able to motivate, energise and invigorate the team to promote collaboration, effort and delivery across all departments.
• Support the ongoing improvement of processes where improvement needs are identified.
• Contribute constructively to and sometimes lead brainstorms and idea sessions, concepting, and mocks creation for pitch decks as necessary.

Must have skills/experience

• Extensive project management experience in an agency environment working in collaboration with creative and technical teams (designers, product, developers, engineers, QA analysts). Excellent planning and organisational skills are a must.
• Demonstrable experience writing essential digital PM documentation and governance, such as project plans, functional specs, SOWs, and other project-related documentation.
• An understanding of how technical aspects of digital projects work and the ability to translate these actions into clear, understandable terms for team members and clients alike.
• Delivery experience with varied budgets and team sizes.
• Effective communication and expectation management with clients and team members.
• Ability to stay calm and prioritise in times of tight deadlines and conflicting demands.
• Experience in building long-standing client relationships and an intense desire to impress clients all day, every day.
• Proactivity and excellent problem-solving skills

Desirable

• Experience building/delivering OTT/TV products.
• Familiarity with industry tools like Gitlab, JIRA, Miro, and Notion.
• A prolific Slack-er

Why work at FX?

• To recognise everyone's incredible contribution to the success of the business, we offer an annual profit share equally distributed across all roles and departments.
• Salary in kind / Salary sacrifice options starting 2025, including medical insurance.
• Personal development is hugely important and so we offer paid weekly training time to up-skill and continue your learning.
• Flexible working - with the option to work 2 days a week from home.
• We appreciate that the world has changed and so we also offer a flexi start time between 8am and 10am.
• Early finish Fridays in the summer.
• To ensure that our remote workers don't miss out on the office experience, we have invested in technology that allows us to run company events in a hybrid way.
• Every month you have the option of a one-on-one Sanctus mental health coaching session, a great opportunity to get quality mental health support at work.
• Take part in regular company-wide and team-specific socials (both in-person and remote).
• We take great pride in our culture of acceptance, diversity and inclusion.
• Complete regular surveys to provide anonymous feedback on the business, leadership team and your role to ensure that we are doing everything we can to keep improving and making FX a great place to work.
• Join us at our monthly Show and Tell, where team members update us on what they've been working on.
• Get nominated for the monthly FX Factor by your peers and get recognised for your contribution to the business.
• Get a chance to earn a £10 voucher for high project NPS scores.
• We are invested in your growth and so we run regular, quarterly appraisals, to ensure you are receiving constant feedback and working towards goals for growth.
• We support our team to get involved in conferences, events and trade shows at home and abroad.
• Work with epic and prestigious global brands in the media, sport and entertainment space, from Discovery to BBC and ATP Media.

This is a full-time role based out of our Barcelona office. We can only consider applicants who can work 3 days per week from the office.