Mid-weight Technical Project Manager (Barcelona)

FX Digital; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 30.000 - 50.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A digital services company in Barcelona is seeking a Mid-Weight Technical Project Manager to lead project processes and deliver digital products for clients. The role requires at least 2 years of experience in project management and an understanding of Agile methodologies. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, creating project documentation, and maintaining strong relationships with clients. The company values contributions, offers flexible working options, and supports personal development with training time. Candidates must work at least 3 days a week from the office.

Servicios

Annual profit share

Medical insurance options

Paid weekly training time

Flexible working hours

Early finish Fridays

Mental health coaching sessions

Company socials

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Formación

• Minimum 2 years experience as a digital project manager.
• Demonstrable experience writing PM documents like SoWs and Project Plans.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsabilidades

• Own the entire project process from conception through delivery.
• Gather requirements and create project documentation.
• Maintain relationships with clients and manage expectations.

Conocimientos

Project Management

Communication Skills

Leadership

Client Relationship Management

Agile Methodologies

Technical Understanding

Herramientas

JIRA

Gitlab

Miro

Descripción del empleo

Role

We’re looking for a dynamic and results-driven project manager with experience in Agile, Kanban and SCRUM methodologies. You will have experience in delivering excellent bespoke digital products to very happy clients. In order to keep our internal teams invigorated and delivering to a high standard, you will have excellent interpersonal skills and lead with empathy. This is also essential when building strong and friendly relationships with our partners and clients. You will be responsible for supporting and enabling team members to ideate and create to the best of their ability.

As a Mid-Weight Technical Project Manager, you will be working with development teams to deliver OTT/CTV projects to our clients. These teams are made up of developers/engineers, QA analysts, designers, product managers and you! You’ll be using your excellent communication skills to report on project progress and outcomes to the FX leadership team and our clients.

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.

Responsibilities

Project Management

• Own the entire project process from conception through planning, creation, QA, and delivery, ensuring accurate specification and efficient execution of projects.
• Help implement our internal processes and ceremonies to ensure the effective delivery of projects.
• Get involved in the gathering of requirements and collate briefs on new projects. Create estimates, project plans, SOWs, CRs, functional specs, invoices, and all other project documentation.
• Communicate projects and deadlines clearly within the production team, reporting to all internal project stakeholders.
• Report on the outcome of projects to the Head of Project Management, including the financial performance of a project.
• Report to the Head of Project Management on team performance, wellbeing and strengths/weaknesses.
• 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 through regular meetings.
• Problem solves and manages any issues through to a positive outcome.
• Deliver projects that meet customer requirements and exceed expectations.

Business Development

• Help respond to requests for proposals by working with relevant team members to develop fantastic responses.
• 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.

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 an efficient process that makes life easier for all.
• Contribute constructively to and sometimes lead brainstorms and idea sessions, concepting, and mocks creation for pitch decks as necessary.

Must have skills/experience

• Minimum 2 years experience as a digital project manager.
• Demonstrable experience writing essential digital PM documents such as SoWs, Change Requests, Project Plans, Functional Specs, and Creative Briefs.
• 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.
• Plenty of experience delivering digital bodies of work with budgets and teams of varying sizes.
• An understanding of the basic capabilities and limitations of design and development software and languages.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Strong leadership and presentation skills. Ability to translate client briefs into requirements for the team.
• Knowledge of industry tools such as Gitlab, JIRA and Miro.
• Great documentation.
• Good communication with clients as well as technical and creative 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.
• Proven success working directly with creative and technical teams such as developers, engineers and QA analysts.

Desirable

• Certifications in Agile or Scrum methodologies.
• A prolific Slack-er!
• You’re a big fan of Notion!
• Experience in writing user stories, and technical/functional specifications.
• Experience building/delivering OTT/TV products
• Great eye for design.
• An appetite to facilitate workshops/present to clients, prospective and existing.
• Comfortable using project management and time tracking tools such as JIRA, Gitlab and Everhour.

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.