Project Manager

Angel Solutions Ltd; Liverpool; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic edtech company as a Project Manager in Liverpool, leading innovative digital projects within a flexible and agile environment. Utilize your expertise in stakeholder engagement and project management tools to drive successful project delivery while working closely with cross-functional teams.

Benefits

Your Birthday Off

Regular Finish Early Fridays

Innovation Days

Ongoing Training & Qualifications

Private Medical Insurance

Christmas Shutdown

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a project management role.
• Proven track record in delivering digital projects in agile environments.
• Experience managing large-scale or multi-disciplinary projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple digital projects, ensuring they meet time and scope.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies to support team collaboration.
• Act as the main point of contact for assigned projects.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Education

Project management certifications (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master)

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Slack

Job description

Join our dynamic edtech company, a leader in providing innovative SAAS solutions to the education sector. With a core team based in Liverpool and a robust remote workforce, we are committed to delivering exceptional products that enhance the learning experience.

Role Overview

We are seeking a proactive and highly organised Project Manager to lead and deliver projects across cross-functional teams. This role requires someone with strong experience in digital project management, excellent stakeholder engagement, and proven experience using tools like Jira, Confluence, and Slack. You’ll be part of a small team and will oversee full project lifecycles, ensure process consistency, and support team collaboration in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

Project Oversight & Delivery

• Lead the successful delivery of multiple digital projects, ensuring they meet time, scope, and requirements.
• Define project objectives and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date project and product roadmaps and backlogs, ensuring efficient execution and clear visibility of progress and priorities.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to support team collaboration and delivery
• Organise key processes such as Bug Review sessions and technical demos, ensuring they are scheduled, recorded, and followed up with feedback collection to support quality and stakeholder engagement.
• Use sprint metrics (e.g., velocity, carryover) to inform sprint planning and identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Ensure all prioritised Jira tasks have appropriate time estimates and that timesheets are completed accurately to support resource planning, reporting, and project tracking.
• Encourage meaningful updates during stand-ups, follow up on blockers, and ensure tasks are accurately reflected in the sprint board.
• Proactively identify and manage risks and dependencies, escalating unresolved or complex issues to the Project Management Lead as appropriate

Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration

• Act as the main point of contact for assigned projects, ensuring smooth communication and alignment between stakeholders, product owners, and development teams.
• Work closely with the Product and Development teams to ensure business requirements are clearly understood, well-scoped, and ready for technical implementation.
• Attend the office regularly (typically Tuesdays and Thursdays) to support effective collaboration.
• Coordinate across cross-functional teams, including development, QA, design, and data, to deliver complex or multi-faceted projects.
• Ensure visibility of shared dependencies, timelines, and blockers across teams when relevant.
• Provide day-to-day guidance and informal mentoring to Project Managers working on the same or related projects.
• Work with leadership to allocate resources effectively across projects.

Tooling & Process Alignment

• Ensure effective use of Jira, Confluence, Slack, and scheduling tools such as Outlook within assigned projects, contributing ideas and suggestions to improve usage across the team.
• Ensure standard operating procedures (e.g., release checklists, documentation, stakeholder inclusion) are consistently followed within assigned projects, and contribute to the continuous improvement of these processes in collaboration with the Project Management Lead.

Job Requirements

• Proven track record of delivering complex digital projects in agile environments.
• Experience managing large-scale or multi-disciplinary projects with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong working knowledge of project management tools Jira, Confluence, Tempo, with at least two years of successful hands-on technical experience of developing dashboards (and other Jira artefacts) to support project and release planning.
• Experience of developing and maintaining processes to support capacity planning across multiple products.
• Confident facilitating agile ceremonies and promoting iterative, value-driven delivery.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to manage competing priorities effectively.
• Familiarity with project planning, velocity tracking, and capacity management techniques.
• Competent in use of Microsoft Office 365 products, including MS Teams for scheduling and holding meetings.

Education & Qualifications

• Project management certifications (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master)
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in project management role.
• Experience with advanced Jira plugins such as Rich Filters, Tempo and other advanced Jira plug-ins for reporting, timesheet tracking, and dashboard configuration
• Experience in EdTech or a similar fast-paced industry
• Experience of co-ordinating ISO audit activity

Day-to-Day Role

Personal Development

• Maintain and update your Personal Development Plan (PDP) quarterly as part of the performance management process.
• Engage in continuous learning and professional development aligned with company goals and best practices.
• Share best practices, offer informal mentoring, and contribute to a high-performing and collaborative delivery culture.
• Deputise for the Lead Project Manager as and when required.
• Hybrid Working: We offer a blend of remote and office-based working based on the needs of the individual and the business.
• Your Birthday Off: In addition to Annual Leave allowance
• Regular Finish Early Fridays: as a reward for all your hard work
• Innovation Days: Time to get away from "normal" and work differently
• Ongoing Training & Qualifications: Learning is at the core of who we are
• Creative Office Space: We have a ball pool, swings, popcorn machine, a gypsy caravan...
• Surprise Treat-Days: Park fun days, meals out, workshops… who knows what's next?
• Parental Leave: Maternity, paternity and adoption leave from day one
• Dependants Leave Allowance: Time off if your child / family member is poorly
• Private Medical Insurance: Because we want to know you're looked after
• Christmas Shutdown: In addition to annual leave allowance. We love Christmas and it's a great time to rest and recharge those batteries!
• Earn More Every Month: After probation, all employees automatically receive an incremental monthly salary increase, amounting to £500 every year.

What We Do at Angel Solutions…

Angel Solutions creates pioneering web-based software that serves the education industry (teachers, leaders, school improvement officers, education data analysts and more). Most of our products are designed to save people time and deliver powerful data analysis, but that's not all we're about! We also strive to be creative and innovative in everything we do, and want to remain a friendly, close-knit team even as the company continues to grow.

The role of Angel's Development Team is to build powerful web applications using an agile, iterative methodology and embracing new coding techniques all the time.

How to apply

Please complete an online application now . You'll need to give a few quick details, upload your CV and briefly explain why you think you're suitable for the role. We'll contact suitable applicants shortly after the closing date.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

We do not accept applications from recruitment agencies or similar!

Go to our Jobs Page for more about the benefits of working at Angel Solutions, or see the About Us Page to read about our values and why we work in a circus!

Check out our latest photos on Flickr for an idea of what life is like when you're part of our team…