Digital Project Manager

Liquid Interactive; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Liquid Pty Ltd, a Strategic Design and Digital Transformation consultancy based in Brisbane, works on impactful projects across government, health, education and beyond, helping organisations design and deliver better digital services, websites and platforms.

We’re looking for a Project Manager to lead digital projects from briefing through delivery, managing clients, scope, budgets, timelines and resourcing while guiding multidisciplinary teams to stay on track.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering digital projects such as websites, digital services or platforms.
• Experience building and maintaining successful client/stakeholder relationships.
• Strong project management across briefing, planning, budgeting and resourcing.
• Hands-on delivery experience, not just governance or reporting.
• Understanding of web delivery or web development projects is mandatory.
• Understanding of digital service delivery, accessibility and user-centred design principles is mandatory.
• Experience with government and/or health clients is valuable, but not mandatory.
• Strong communication, teamwork, judgement and organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring exceptional project management across 2-3 accounts.
• Coordinating with clients and stakeholders to align expectations, priorities and next steps.
• Leading digital projects end-to-end.
• Managing project scope, timelines, budgets and delivery plans.
• Preparing clear project briefs and helping define delivery approach from discovery through to implementation.
• Coordinating internal resources across design, strategy, development and content.
• Facilitating planning, forecasting and project reporting activities.
• Identifying risks, issues and dependencies and managing them proactively.
• Supporting requirements definition through discovery, research and co-design.
• Maintaining strong project governance and delivery discipline without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Improving the way we run projects across tools, processes and team practices.

Skills

Digital project delivery

Client relationship management

Project planning

Communication

Governance and delivery

Tools

Agile methodology

Job description

Lead thedelivery of complex digital projects that make a real difference.

Liquid is a Strategic Design and Digital Transformation consultancy based in Brisbane. We work on impactful projects across government, health, education and beyond, helping organisations design and deliver better digital services, websites and platforms.

We're looking for a Project Managerto lead digital projects from briefing through to delivery. This role is ideal for someone who is confident managing clients, scope, budgets, timelines, briefs, resourcing and stakeholder coordination, while working closely with multidisciplinary teams to keep projects on track.

This is a hands-on role in a high-performing team. You'll work closely with clients and internal specialists across strategy, design, development and content to help shape and deliver meaningful digital outcomes.

We are open to appointing a moresenior Project Manager where experience and capability align. This role may be less suited to someone whose experience has been primarily in large enterprise PMO environments or in roles removed from day-to-day delivery.

Why this role is different

This role offers the chanceto work at the intersection of meaningful public impact, modern digital delivery and emerging technology. For the right person, it's an opportunity to build the judgement, credibility and hands-on experience that can accelerate a future path into more senior digital leadership roles, including in government.

About the role

You'll work within a multidisciplinary team of designers, developers, strategists and analysts to guide projects from idea through to delivery. Most often, that means helping shape and deliver digital services, websites and platforms for government and health clients. You'll have a relationship with client as well as the work, helping shape direction, maintain momentum and ensure projects are delivered successfullyand profitably.

At Liquid, our PMs are not delivery only. We're looking for someone who can bring criticalthinking, structure and commercial discipline to projects while staying connected to the detail, the team and the client.

This role is accountable for how the project is communicated, costed, planned, resourced and run.

What you’ll be doing

• Ensuring exceptional project management across 2-3 accounts
• Working closely with clients and stakeholders to align expectations, priorities and next steps
• Leading digital projects end-to-end
• Managing project scope, timelines, budgets and delivery plans
• Preparing clear project briefs and helping define delivery approach from discovery through to implementation
• Coordinating internal resources across design, strategy, development and content
• Facilitating planning, forecasting and project reporting activities
• Identifying risks, issues and dependencies and managing them proactively
• Supporting requirements definition through discovery, research and co-design
• Maintaining strong project governance and delivery discipline without adding unnecessary bureaucracy
• Improving the way we run projects across tools, processes and team practices.

What we’re looking for

• Experience delivering digital projects such as websites, digital services or platforms
• Experience building and maintaining successful relationships with clients and/or stakeholders
• Strong project management capability across briefing, planning, budgeting and resourcing
• Experience working hands-on across delivery, not just governance or reporting
• Understanding of web delivery or web development projects is mandatory
• Understanding of digital service delivery, accessibility and user-centred design principles is mandatory
• Experience working with government and/or health clients is valuable, but not mandatory
• Strong communication, teamwork, judgement and organisational skills.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering government projects aligned to Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) standards
• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum or Lean approaches
• Interest in emerging technology, including how AI can support better digital services and delivery.

At Liquid, we work on projects that matter. Much of our work involves digital services for government and health organisations, where the quality of delivery has a direct impact on real people.

You’ll join a collaborative, low-ego team that values clear thinking, practical delivery and meaningful outcomes.

Location

This is a hybrid Brisbane-based role, with time each week in our Fortitude Valley office.