PROJECT MANAGER

We Realise Potential in Your Story

Based in the heart of Shoreditch, we are a multi-platform production company, social media agency, and digital media network who are currently on a quest to find a Project Manager to join our Data, Tech & Product team - Is this your next opportunity?

This role requires a delivery-focused Project Manager who is comfortable working in both Agile and Waterfall environments, with a strong understanding of technical delivery processes and Scrum practices. You will work closely with engineers, analysts and data scientists to ensure projects are well-scoped, technically feasible, and delivered efficiently. The role combines project planning, governance, Agile facilitation and technical coordination, ensuring that projects move smoothly from requirements through development, testing and delivery while maintaining alignment with wider business priorities. The developer team includes both local and offshore teams working jointly on projects.

PERKS OF THE JOB

We are proud to be an award winning, B Corp™ Certified workplace with employee wellbeing at the heart of everything we do. We offer hybrid and flexi-time working, mental health and wellbeing programmes, enhanced gender neutral parental leave, interest free financial support and a digital nomad policy that allows you to work from abroad in two one week blocks a year. Plus all the usuals such as pension contributions, annual leave and office perks like free lunches, socials, and health treatments!

HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME 

• Work with stakeholders to gather and refine high-level requirements, helping to translate them into clear technical project scopes, delivery roadmaps and structured project plans.

• Collaborate closely with engineering, data and analytics teams to help break down requirements into deliverable tasks, user stories and technical workstreams.

• Facilitate agile delivery across Software Development and Data Science teams with clearly defined objectives, aligning engineering work with product and business goals:

  • Conducting sprint-planning, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives;

  • Identifying blockers, technical risks and resourcing constraints, and coordinating solutions across teams;

  • Supporting the management of technical dependencies between systems, data pipelines and internal tools, ensuring teams have the information they need to deliver efficiently.

• Develop and maintain project artefacts including delivery roadmaps, timelines, technical documentation, risk logs, budgets and resource plans.

• Track delivery progress through project management tools and provide regular reporting on project status, delivery metrics and risks to stakeholders and leadership.

• Work with team leads to manage team capacity planning and resource allocation, ensuring realistic delivery timelines for technical work.

• Coordinate cross-team collaboration where projects require contributions from multiple disciplines such as engineering, data science, analytics and reporting teams.

• Manage and coordinate work delivered by external development resources, ensuring technical deliverables meet agreed standards and timelines.

• Proactively manage scope changes, technical risks, system dependencies and delivery constraints throughout the project lifecycle.

• Maintain clear communication with stakeholders to ensure alignment on technical priorities, delivery expectations and project outcomes.

• Balance day-to-day task management with a broader understanding of how projects contribute to the wider Data, Tech and Product roadmap and platform evolution.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED 
Skills matter, experience is useful, attitude is everything. 

• Strong experience in project management, ideally delivering technology, data or analytics projects.

• Experience working with software development teams, data engineering teams or analytics teams in a delivery or project management capacity.

• Comfortable delivering both fast-paced iterative projects and longer-term platform or infrastructure initiatives.

• Strong familiarity with Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum, with experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and managing sprint delivery.

• Experience coordinating projects involving software development, data platforms, APIs, reporting tools or internal technical systems.

• Familiarity with project management tools and best practices (Asana experience is a bonus).

• Ability to translate business requirements into structured technical workstreams and delivery plans.

• Experience managing multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams, including technical and non-technical contributors.

• Experience delivering projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, including frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban.

While not mandatory, the following skillsets are extremely advantageous and desirable:

• Basic technical understanding of data flows, data pipelines, APIs and coding languages such as Python, SQL or PHP.

• Certifications such as PRINCE2, AgilePM or Scrum Master.
  

LITTLE DOT, BIG IMPACT 🔥

We’re probably the biggest studio you didn’t know was fuelling your favourite content. We’ve been one of the top dogs in the digital content space since 2013 (some would say, before its potential was even fully realised). We're proud to work with some of the hottest TV and movie studios, distributors, rights holders, sports federations and brands in the business.

WE ARE COMMITTED

We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace at Little Dot that reflects our diverse digital audiences and communities we work and live in. We are committed to ensuring every employee feels valued and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. We welcome candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities to apply to our vacancies, and we strive to create an environment where differences are celebrated, and everyone has equal opportunity to thrive.

USE OF AI IN APPLICATIONS

We value authenticity, and want to get to know you - your thinking, and your originality. While generative AI tools can help refine text, we require your applications to be in your own voice and words. AI cannot be used to generate your responses, and any applications appearing to be entirely AI-generated will not be progressed.

Learn more about us, our values and our commitments please visit our website www.littledotstudios.com for more information.