Careers: Junior Digital Project Manager (Digital Media)
ROLE: Contractor / Freelancer
TERM: 3 months +
LOCATION: Remote working, UK / Portugal Time zone
START DATE: Immediate
Who will I be working with?
You’ll be working for leading international media companies that produce news websites, magazines, conferences and exhibitions, and alongside a team of technical experts and creative producers.
What will I do?
The Junior Digital Project Manager plays a key role in the successful management and evolution of our clients’ digital product ranges.
You’ll work closely with each client’s internal team to develop a good understanding of their brands, products, platforms and tools, as well as their operations and project management style.
In practice this means applying your project management experience and product knowledge to daily issue management and change requests, product launches, feature rollouts, platform migrations and more.
You will collaborate with support agents, ad ops specialists and creatives, and work closely with a range of external technology and platform vendors.
Your organised approach and excellent communication skills will be essential in your position as an important link between users, managers, commercial stakeholders and strategists.
What is my role responsible for?
Issue and change management for client digital products and platforms
Digital Project Management and task delivery
The successful candidate will have developed their skills in a commercial environment and have sufficient professional confidence to hit the ground running.
You will be familiar with industry-standard task management tools and have experience assessing and prioritising tasks based on impact, benefit and estimated effort.
Coordinating activity, tracking progress, managing upward and driving delivery will be second nature.
Most importantly, you will be passionate about the future of media and excited about using the best technologies, practices and approaches in your daily work.
What essential criteria do I need to meet?
At least 1 year of recent experience in Digital Project Management
Experience using common project management and collaboration tools to coordinate activity, report on progress and ensure on-spec and on-time deliveries
Excellent requirements analysis and documentation skills
An understanding of current digital media technologies and platforms
The ability to multi-task and work in a deadline-oriented environment
Excellent written and spoken English
Exemplary communication and presentation skills
How do I apply?
Please email your CV and covering letter to hello@riversandgrey.com.
Looking forward to getting connected,
RIVERS&GREY
How we work
Understanding your business
1. Discovery
Our process relies on a real-world understanding of you, your products and your operations. We’ll work with you to identify your skills gaps, resource constraints, workflow pain points and delivery bottlenecks.
Tailoring your service
2. Analysis
Based on our review, we provide you with a range of customisable service delivery options. We can act as a full-service agency, collaborate closely with key roles within your business or provide execution-only skills where your existing team is feeling the pinch.
EXPANDING YOUR OPTIONS
3. Delivery
We work with your tools, in your way, and collaborate with your staff to solve your output and development blockers. We’re your expanded team, and scale to fit your needs as fast as they evolve.