Design Project Manager

3Search; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global events organization is hiring a Senior Design Project Manager to lead complex digital and design projects. You will enhance processes, mentor project managers, and work closely with various teams while ensuring timely delivery across high-profile programs. The role includes hybrid working options, a bonus, private healthcare, and a holiday allowance. Ideal candidates are experienced project managers confident in navigating competing deadlines and stakeholder expectations.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Bonus

Private healthcare

Pension

Income protection

Holiday allowance

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading multi-stream design projects.
• Ability to manage competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills for liaising with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own and orchestrate complex digital and design projects.
• Ensure alignment of priorities and timely delivery.
• Improve processes and mentor project managers.

Skills

Leading complex design projects

Scoping and planning

Building project frameworks

Managing senior stakeholders

Performance tracking

Job description

SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT MANAGER – GLOBAL EVENTS & EXPERIENCES BUSINESS

This is a senior opportunity to join a fast‑growing, internationally operating organisation that delivers large‑scale, high‑impact live experiences and digital initiatives around the world. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping how creative and design projects are delivered, ensuring structure, clarity and consistency across complex, high‑profile programmes.

You’ll work at the heart of a multidisciplinary creative team, improving processes, mentoring project managers and partnering closely with events, marketing and senior stakeholders during a key period of growth and evolution.

What they need

• Someone who can own and orchestrate complex digital and design projects across campaigns, websites, product and live event environments.
• Someone confident acting as the central connector between branding, marketing, product, events and digital teams, keeping priorities aligned and delivery on track.
• A design‑native project manager, with the gravitas to lead and mentor design projects, setting clear standards and acting as a senior escalation point when challenges arise.
• Someone who brings structure, clarity and predictability to fast‑moving, multi‑stream work with competing deadlines.
• A PM who’s comfortable working in a global, event‑led business, where priorities shift, timelines evolve and clear communication is critical.

What you’re great at

• Confidently leading complex, multi‑stream design projects.
• Scoping, planning and delivering digital design projects end to end, balancing quality, speed, stakeholder needs and commercial objectives.
• Building and running robust project frameworks, including work‑back schedules, delivery milestones and resource plans across multiple concurrent projects.
• Prioritising and allocating design resource effectively, balancing budgets, scope and timelines without compromising output quality.
• Managing senior stakeholders with confidence, providing clear updates on progress, risks and changes, and setting expectations early and clearly.
• Leading teams through complexity: identifying risks, unblocking delivery, managing change and continuously improving how work gets done through performance tracking and post‑project reviews.

What you’ll get

• Hybrid working (2–3 days per week in a London office).
• Bonus.
• Private healthcare, pension and income protection.
• Holiday allowance.