Senior Project Manager

If you’re ready to start the next chapter in your career journey, you’ve come to the right place. We’re always happy to hear from people who are eager to learn and grow, and share our values. Read more about the role and apply.

We’re looking for a Senior-level Project Manager to join our team at Futurice. You’d be working with our collaborative, cross-functional product teams to deliver intuitive, impactful and accessible digital solutions. We’d like to bring in someone who will contribute to our team's success in achieving a client’s aims and ensuring their experience of a project is as positive as the end result.

As a Senior at Futurice, your primary focus remains hands-on project management while you begin to develop the skills needed to take on greater responsibility. You start building your capabilities in client relationships, project leadership, and collaboration, while still deeply involved in delivering high-quality work. At the same time, you gain experience in mentoring others, influencing decisions, and contributing to the growth of Futurice and our client partnerships.

Sound like you?

• You have an interest in the transformative possibilities of digital projects and enjoy working with people to bring out the best in them.
• You understand and respect different disciplines, whilst helping the team function and progress as a single entity.
• You create structure to help drive through uncertainty, and do this while monitoring the project health and supporting the overall engagement lead.
• You like the idea of a low hierarchy organisation and enjoy facilitating and organising sessions to promote collaboration.
• Strong commercial awareness and a head for numbers
• Experience with implementing Project Management in both Agile and Waterfall environments
• You understand the difference between a team working in an agile environment and a waterfall one and can coach teams in the right direction. Similarly, you understand the difference between a fixed cost and time and materials engagement when it comes to project managing.
• You have experience in helping organisations adopt and implement Agile best practices.
• A keen interest in and familiarity with how software is built and delivered, including knowing when things are technically easy or difficult
• Team player experienced in dealing with clients and facilitating their requirements

What you will be responsible for

• Supporting projects from start to finish
• Support the project lead with planning, estimation, capacity planning and managing project financials.
• Facilitating project management, timesheet review, logging expenses, bookings, note/ action logging and similar tasks
• Planning and helping to implement appropriate delivery best practices (waterfall, agile etc)
• Facilitating retrospectives and sharing of learning to help teams improve ways of working
• Clear communications with team and client, as well as creation of project tracking materials

What we care about

Our Culture – We are human first. Mutual respect and trust is essential, as is curiosity, talent and energy. All team members need to be self-starters and have the desire to be part of a low-hierarchy work culture built on a foundation of Nordic straightforwardness.

How we work – We’re a talented team of designers, strategists, and software engineers working hard to create a progressive environment, culture, and set of capabilities. In the UK we operate a remote-first setup, centred on London, with regular days spent working together IRL as a full team. We take pride in our craft and a commitment to a people-first, one-team mentality.

Flexibility – Not a morning person? Need to pick the kids up from school? We believe in well-rested people doing concentrated, impactful work and offer flexible working hours and locations.

What we can offer you

• Competitive salary (benchmarked externally and internally for salary fairness) our Senior banding is £50 - £80k (depending on experience)
• Company pension contribution of 6%
• Private health insurance with WPA
• 25 days of holidays + plus bank holidays and a day off for your birthday too. We offer a long service annual leave scheme of an additional day per year after three years’ unbroken service, up to a maximum of 30 days
• A tiered parental leave policy, which offers 16 weeks maternity full pay and 4 weeks partner full pay (dependent on your tenure)
• A Learning budget of £1200 per year for self initiated learning, books and training courses
• EV salary sacrifice (dependent on your tenure)
• A remote-first setup with two days per month to co-work together in London
• A flexible wellbeing budget of £50 per month (via a Juno platform subscription)

Don’t worry about whether you’re a 100% fit! Take a look at what we do and what we've done and get in touch. Don’t just tell us where you’ve worked or studied, tell us who you are, where you are heading, and why you want to join us!

Our hiring process

Please send your CV and a brief covering letter explaining why you would like to work at Futurice UK to joinus@futurice.co.uk.

We usually follow the following format for interviews, currently all held remotely:

• 30min video/telephone call with our People Director
• 1hr interview with 2 people, a project manager and one other practitioner
• 1hr interview with 2 directors

Salary: £50,000-£80,000

Inclusion and diversity are critical to the success of Futurice, and we actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or any other protected category. We will offer interviews at times that suit your schedule and circumstances. Please get in touch if you have any questions or if there is anything we can do to make the process more accessible and convenient for you.