Production Technology Project Manager

SUCCESS TALENT; Greater London; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

SUCCESS TALENT in London is seeking a Production Technology Project Manager to lead the technology initiatives across UK production teams. You will be the main point of contact for productions in the UK, guiding delivery from pre-production through post-production.

You will coordinate with USA-based Studio Technology engineers, lead multiple shows, define charters, scope, timelines, and manage budgets. Strong communication, and ability to map workflows with Lucidchart are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science or Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in Technical Project Management, utilizing waterfall and agile methodology
• 3+ years pf experience managing a diverse portfolio of projects reflecting a wide range of technologies, complexities, and duration
• Experience working in cross-functional technical teams, including architects, infrastructure and data engineers, software developers, system reliability engineers, storage engineers, audio/visual or post-production engineers to meet expectations for productivity, quality, and goal accomplishment
• Project management tools such as Smartsheet and Jira.

Responsibilities

• Lead calls with productions across the phases: pre-production, production, and post-production.
• Coordinate with Studio Technology engineers in the USA to ensure tasks are completed by production timeline.
• Lead multiple shows and concurrent technology initiatives throughout their lifecycle, including intake, charter and scope, plan development, and post mortems.
• Ensure clear reporting of project status: timelines, milestones, budget status, and issues to program management and stakeholders.
• Create workflow diagrams of production technology processes and identify opportunities to streamline processes or improve efficiency.

Skills

Technical Project Management

Agile

Waterfall

Cross-functional Collaboration

Stakeholder Communication

Jira

Smartsheet

Lucidchart

Education

Bachelor's degree in Science or Engineering

Tools

Smartsheet

Jira

Lucidchart

Job description

Production Technology Project Manager

18 Month Contract

Highly Competitive Daily Rate

London

Your Role

Be an integral part of the Project Management and Enabling Technologies team, as the Production Technology Project Manager you will play a critical role as main point of contact for the production teams based in the UK.

• Lead calls with productions based on the phase of the show: pre-production, production, and post-production. Assist in communicating needs, break-fixes, and issues that productions have to technology engineers to deliver/fix.
• Lead coordination with other project managers and business resources to assign tasks to the Studio Technology engineers in the USA and ensure tasks are completed by production timeline.
• Lead multiple shows and concurrent technology initiatives throughout their lifecycle. This includes project intake, use case definition, charter and scope definition, project plan development, capacity allocations, resource assignment, project execution, and post mortems.
• Ensure clear reporting of project status from project teams including: timelines, milestone tracking, budget status and issue identification to program management and stakeholders
• Create workflow diagrams of production technology processes and identify opportunities to streamline processes or improve efficiency

What you bring?

• Bachelor's degree in Science or Engineering, or related technical discipline
• Previous experience working in a Content Creation/Production environment
• 5+ years of experience in Technical Project Management, utilizing waterfall and agile methodology
• 3+ years pf experience managing a diverse portfolio of projects reflecting a wide range of technologies, complexities, and duration
• Experience working in cross-functional technical teams, including architects, infrastructure and data engineers, software developers, system reliability engineers, storage engineers, audio/visual or post-production engineers to meet expectations for productivity, quality, and goal accomplishment
• Project management tools such as Smartsheet and Jira.
• Ability to create workflow drawings and process maps utilizing Lucidchart

Success Talent Diversity & Inclusion statement:

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition.

Success Talent embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we welcome applications from candidates who may have disabilities.

We regret that due to the volume of applications, only successful applicants will be contacted.