About the Role
As a Senior Project Manager, you'll play a central role in driving the end-to-end delivery of high-impact digital products for some of the biggest names in world sport. Working at the heart of our delivery teams, you'll collaborate daily with internal design and engineering squads, external client stakeholders, and third-party vendors. You'll serve as the bridge between client vision and technical execution, leveraging an intuitive appreciation of what sports fans want to help discover, define, and deliver seamless digital experiences worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate agile ceremonies
- Manage project risks
- Refine a prioritised product backlog
- Navigate complex backend integrations
- Optimize delivery processes within your squad
- Mentor junior project managers
- Lead multi-disciplinary teams with empathy, clarity, and strong people management skills
- Inspire trust and build strong, collaborative relationships with senior client stakeholders
- Champion agile delivery standards
- Guide, support, and mentor fellow project managers
Requirements
- Proven experience running digital development projects with budgets of £500k+
- Proven track record of taking complex digital software applications from initial requirements gathering to successful release
- Hands-on experience managing projects with complex backend dependencies (e.g., SSO, CRM, live data feeds, or content migrations)
- Highly proficient in people management, with demonstrable experience leading development squads of 7+ people
- Deep knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies, with a history of positively influencing delivery processes to maximize output
- Ability to demonstrate a clear understanding of the interplay between scope, effort, and budget throughout a project's lifecycle
- Expertise in gathering client requirements and converting them into actionable, prioritized backlogs
- Intuitive understanding of sports technology, digital media, or what drives fan engagement in sports
- Strong account management capabilities, with experience managing both day-to-day operations and executive-level client relationships
Skills
- Solution-oriented mindset
- Managing project constraints across scope, effort, time, and budget
- Proactively identify, communicate, and mitigate project risks and issues
- Drive continuous improvement by challenging and optimizing ways of working
- Agile/Scrum methodologies
- People management
- Client relationship management
- Backlog management
- Account management
Location
- London
- Basingstoke
Work Type
- Hybrid Working
- 12 months FTC Cover
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- 25 days of paid leave per year
- Pension program
- Lunch included
- Gym card
- Fresh fruit, great coffee, and Friday drinks
- Bi-monthly team outings
- Office games like FIFA, chess, and ping-pong
- Sony Benefits
About the Company
- At Beyond Sports, we don’t just visualize sports, we reinvent how fans experience them.
- Together with partners like NFL, NHL, FIFA, and Disney, we push the boundaries of real-time sports data, 3D graphics, and AI-driven storytelling across web and native mobile platforms.
- At Beyond Sports, we move fast, collaborate closely, and build things that haven't existed before.
- Fast-moving, creative, and innovative — that's our world.
