Project Manager

Conker; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm, Conker, seeks a Project Manager to oversee a skilled team in delivering critical projects for top-tier clients. This role provides a chance to make impactful decisions while working remotely with occasional visits to Nottingham. Ideal candidates possess strong management skills, experience in tech environments, and a commitment to quality.

Benefits

Gym/Fitness allowance

Never work on your birthday!

Pension and Life Assurance

Parental Benefits

Online and offline social events

Qualifications

• Experience in a tech company, ideally a start-up.
• Direct experience working with coders.
• Fluent in English with good writing skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage a small team of designers, programmers, and testers.
• Ensure adherence to systems and processes.
• Guide future expansion and recommend new systems.

Skills

People management skills

Organizational skills

Time management skills

Good writing skills

Ability to explain complex concepts simply

Job description

We are looking for an ambitious, motivated, tech-savvy, Project Manager. Reporting initially to the CEO, you’ll be responsible for managing a small and highly skilled team of designers, programmers, testers.

We are a long-established business working with some of the best food and drink businesses, such as Carlsberg, Britvic and Mondelez.You will have the opportunity to make your mark from the start on challenging but rewarding projects, many of which are mission-critical to our customers.

Our platform is AWS for pretty much everything, and Google for office tools - the only Windows will be on your laptop (or maybe you’ll choose a Mac). We work with unusually large datasets and our systems have to deliver outputs extremely quickly, so ‘optimisation’ is an over-worked word at Conker. We need to ensure we always optimise not just the database queries, but the whole way of working.

Following the recent expansion of our board of directors we are looking to scale the business beyond the UK. Your role as ‘conductor of the orchestra’ will be pivotal in making this a reality!

We are a distributed team and to help with ‘bonding’ we meet up in full four times a year, staying one or two nights - recent venues have included Manchester and Berlin.

Boxes to tick

• Managing priorities and deadlines

• Making informed choices when prioritising the use of tight resources to stick to deadlines

• Ensuring adherence to systems and processes in collaboration with our Team Leader

• Making sure there are no shortcuts being taken in essential tasks such as testing and design - always prioritising quality

• Ensuring documentation is up to date and kept in the right place

• Recommending new systems and approaches in collaboration with our Team Leader, thus keeping the team's efficiency and productivity at high levels

• Guiding future expansion in collaboration with our Team Leader, both regarding (near) future product releases and new partnerships

• Fluent in English (no need to be native) and with good writing skills - there will be a lot of customer contact, mainly written but also video calls and occasionally f2f

Who we think you might be

• You've worked in at least one tech company, ideally a start-up

• You have people management skills and experience of working directly with coders

• You’re smart and intellectually curious

• You’re able to explain complex concepts in concise, simple, terms

• You can talk about your organisational and time-management skills

• You live in the Nottingham area, or can easily be in Nottingham when needed

• You’d want your next car to be an EV (or a bike)

• You love biscuits

Salary and benefits

• Salary £45,000+ according to experience (Full Time Equivalent) - talk to us if you think you are worth more.

• Gym/Fitness allowance

• Never work on your birthday!

• Remote-first company

• Pension, Income Replacement Insurance, Life Assurance

• Parental Benefits

• Online and real world socials

Other details

• Company: Conker Cloud Innovations Ltd

• Vacancy Type: 39 hours is our full-time, but we’re open to a part-time/flexible schedule. Let’s start by letting us know what would work best for you and we’ll go from there!

• Job Location: remote role with some visits to Nottingham’s office