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About the Role
Owns end-to-end delivery on complex or multi-workstream projects, including planning, risk management, budgets, forecasting, and change control. Leads cross-functional project teams and builds strong client relationships, acting as a trusted senior contact. Introduces new practices and tools, and mentors junior colleagues to foster a psychologically safe and accountable team environment.
Responsibilities
- Build integrated plans across workstreams and manage the cross-workstream critical path.
- Anticipate systemic risk across workstreams and drive mitigation.
- Manage change control across projects, taking every change request through approval.
- Tailor the agile approach across workstreams and use delivery metrics to forecast and spot risk.
- Work with Engineering to move projects towards continuous delivery.
- Act as Product Owner on smaller projects, owning the backlog, prioritization, and acceptance criteria.
- Keep schedule and cost variance, RAG-red weeks, and project lifecycle sign-offs on track.
- Own budgets, forecasting, and margin across larger or concurrent projects.
- Monitor weekly, re-forecast at least fortnightly, and flag any margin variance.
- Estimate change requests with the team before client commitment.
- Keep forecast accuracy at or above department KPIs.
- Act as the trusted senior contact for client stakeholders, building trust and leading difficult conversations.
- Keep client and internal senior stakeholders informed with proactive status updates.
- Communicate issues, defects, and bugs proactively to senior stakeholders, with options.
- Frame technical trade-offs for senior stakeholders and challenge technical recommendations.
- Seek regular client feedback and act on it.
- Champion best practice across the team's tools.
- Introduce new practices and tools on projects, measure results, and share them.
- Lead adoption of approved AI and automation tools across workstreams.
- Formally mentor and/or manage junior colleagues and set team culture.
- Resolve competing priorities between senior client and internal stakeholders without escalation.
- Actively shape and pitch expansion opportunities.
- Own impact assessments for new or expanded scope, including delivery approach, risk, and resourcing.
Requirements
- Consistently acts as a Project Leader, not a coordinator.
- Anticipates problems before they land, brings solutions and a recommendation.
- Makes the call on difficult trade-offs and stays composed under pressure.
- Anticipates slippage and holds team and self to the same standard.
- Shapes delivery approach and planning decisions.
- Anticipates future account needs.
- Reads senior and executive audiences and adapts the message.
- Delivers unwelcome news to senior stakeholders, with options.
- Actively looks for new practices and technology that improve delivery.
- Tests new practices and technology rather than waiting for others.
- Shares learnings across the department.
- Creates an environment where mistakes are raised without blame.
- Influences without authority across disciplines and senior stakeholders.
- 5-8 years leading complex or concurrent delivery.
- Demonstrated mentoring and/or management of other PMs, or equivalent demonstrated capability.
- Experience in a digital agency, ideally delivering apps or streaming products for multiple clients.
- Exposure to OTT/CTV, streaming, or broader digital product delivery.
- Experience building or improving a delivery process or templates that the department adopted.
- Experience leading adoption of AI or new tooling within a delivery team.
- Ability to work 3 days per week from the office.
Skills
- Product Strategy
- Design
- Engineering
- Test Automation
- Project Planning
- RAID Management
- Budget Management
- Forecasting
- Margin Control
- Change Control
- Agile Methodologies
- Continuous Delivery
- Product Ownership
- Client Relationship Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- AI Tools
- Automation Tools
Location
- Old Street, London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
- Flexible working
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5-8 years
Salary/Compensations
- Annual profit share
Benefits
- Annual profit share
- Investment in up-skilling, learning, and growth
- Pension contributions with Scottish Widows
- Vitality health insurance
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- 35 days of annual leave, including bank holidays and Christmas office shutdown
- Early finish Fridays in the summer
- Flexible working
- Flexi start time between 9am and 10am
- Hybrid company events
- Monthly one-on-one Sanctus mental health coaching session
- Regular company-wide and team-specific socials
- Regular appraisals
- Support for attending conferences, events, and trade shows
About the Company
- FX Digital is a specialist Connected TV agency.
- Provides a wide range of services, including Product Strategy, Design, Engineering, and Test Automation.
- Partners with global streaming brands such as Discovery+, BritBox, ATP Media, ITV, and Dyn.
- Work with epic and prestigious global brands in the media, sport and entertainment space, from Discovery to BBC and ATP Media.
Equal Opportunity
- We take great pride in our culture of acceptance, diversity and inclusion.