Senior Technical Project Manager

twentysix; Hilversum; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Monks is seeking a Senior Project Manager to own the delivery of complex software builds, coordinating plans, milestones, risks, budgets, and client communications. You will connect clients, engineering, product, and design, while supporting a modern AI-enabled workflow across teams.

The role emphasizes delivering on scope and schedule, mentoring delivery leads, and improving delivery practices in a fast-paced, agile consulting environment, with a focus on clear and honest status updates under

Qualifications

• 5+ years of delivering software in a consulting or client-facing setting.
• Proven Agile delivery with Scrum or Kanban.
• Strong risk, dependency, scope, budget, and schedule management.
• Excellent client communication and expectation setting.
• Experience with AI-enabled engineering workflows.
• Familiarity with delivery tools such as Jira, Linear, or similar platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery plans, milestones, timelines, and follow-ups.
• Track risks and dependencies, surface issues early, and drive mitigation.
• Lead status meetings, planning sessions, retrospectives, and other agile delivery rituals.
• Identify and resolve blockers to keep teams moving.
• Manage client communication, expectations, and alignment.
• Coordinate delivery across engineering, product, design, and client stakeholders.
• Monitor delivery against scope, budget, and schedule.
• Communicate project status clearly and honestly, especially when timelines are under pressure.
• Support and advance delivery practices in an agentic engineering environment using AI tools.
• Mentor other delivery leads and project managers, as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

5+ years experience

Agile delivery

Risk management

Client communication

Organizational skills

Calm under pressure

AI-enabled workflows

Jira familiarity

English communication

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Jira

Linear

Job description

About the Role

As a Senior Project Manager, you'll own the successful delivery of complex software builds by managing plans, milestones, risks, dependencies, budgets, and client communication. You'll serve as the connective tissue between clients, engineering, product, and design-keeping delivery on track, honest, and unblocked while working alongside teams that use AI coding agents as part of their everyday workflow.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery plans, milestones, timelines, and follow-ups


• Track risks and dependencies, surface issues early, and drive mitigation


• Lead status meetings, planning sessions, retrospectives, and other agile delivery rituals


• Identify and resolve blockers to keep teams moving


• Manage client communication, expectations, and alignment


• Coordinate delivery across engineering, product, design, and client stakeholders


• Monitor delivery against scope, budget, and schedule


• Communicate project status clearly and honestly, especially when timelines are under pressure


• Support and advance delivery practices in an agentic engineering environment using tools such as Claude Code and Codex


• Mentor other delivery leads and project managers, as needed


• Other duties as assigned

About You

Qualifications & Skills

• 5+ years of experience managing software delivery, ideally in a consulting or client-facing environment


• Strong experience with agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, or similar frameworks


• Proven risk, dependency, scope, budget, and schedule management skills


• Excellent client communication and expectation-setting abilities


• Strong organizational skills with consistent attention to plans, dependencies, and follow-ups


• Ability to remain calm under pressure and bring clarity to complex situations


• Proactive approach to identifying and addressing delivery risks


• Comfort working with technical teams, concepts, and AI-enabled engineering workflows


• Familiarity with delivery tools such as Jira, Linear, or similar platforms


• Strong written and verbal English communication skills


• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile consulting environment


• Agile or project management certification, such as CSM or PMP, is a plus


• Experience delivering AI or data-intensive projects is a plus


• Experience mentoring delivery leads or project managers is a plus


• Experience working across both product and engineering teams is a plus

**About Monks **

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger's Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek's first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show's inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group's 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato's AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents-and resonates with the world around us.