Development Project Manager

Hello, we’re EdPlace

We’re so glad you’ve found us! EdPlace is a growing online educational content and tuition provider helping parents and tutors across the UK support each child’s learning outside the classroom. We’ve helped over 100,000 students so far and are on a mission to reach over 1 million. We believe every parent should have access to quality educational support that effectively helps their child succeed. As the parent champions, our mission is to be the most trusted partner for parents with the biggest impact on a child’s education. We’re looking to build on the great success we’ve had to date and want you to be part of it. You’ll join a friendly team looking to make a big impact.

The Role

We are looking for a driven and talented development project manager to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to join EdPlace and be part of Supporting Education Group, the UK’s leading education group focussed on supporting every aspect of a child’s learning journey.

We are building a 21st century private tuition solution that will enable students from all walks of life to access the private tuition and educational content that they need to succeed in their academic lives.

The company is at an exciting stage of its growth having recently joined together with 3 tuition brands and is developing its AI recommendation through the Innovate UK Smart Grant scheme. In this role you will have the opportunity to support our existing teams manage integration projects and deliver our development roadmap on time and on budget.

As our Development Project Manager you will agree business requirements with key stakeholders and lead our outsourced development teams to deliver those requirements. You’ll be responsible for prioritising work before and during sprints. You will also complete user acceptance testing in collaboration with other business stakeholders.

What you’ll be doing:

• Manage in-house/outsourced development teams to deliver product requirements; ensuring sprint planning keeps on track and meets business needs.
• Report key outcomes, milestones, and risks to senior management.
• Ensure the product is stable and secure and adheres to best practice.
• Monitor site and app performance, optimising where necessary.
• Manage tech budgets effectively.
• Develop user stories and define acceptance criteria.
• Set sprint goals.
• Define user acceptance tests and quality assurance.
• Plan product releases.
• Follow progress of work and address production issues during sprints.
• Communicate progress, risks and plans to the wider team.
  

A bit about you:

If you’re looking to work on a product that’s having a real impact in the world and on the lives of young people and want to have responsibility for the delivery of B2C mobile and web applications, this may be the role for you. You may be an existing project manager or someone who’s transitioning into the role from a delivery background. Either way you’ll have strong technical experience of product development and an enthusiasm for product design, discovery and validation.

Essential requirements:

• Relevant demonstrable experience as a Project Manager or similar role in development
• A technical background with knowledge of software development, web, and mobile technologies
• Experience working in Scrum environments
• Experience working with agencies/remote teams
• Knowledge and experience of Jira
• Wireframing experience
• An understanding of CI/CD and testing paradigms/methodologies
• Experience working in a small team and/or with a high degree of autonomy
  

Additional requirements:

• Excellent web and native mobile development experience
• An eye for detail
• A passion for helping parents and students
• A hands-on, entrepreneurial approach
  

What We Offer:

• Access to excellent training and development and fantastic market leading technology to give you the data, insights, and resources you need to succeed
• Hybrid or remote working considered (candidates across England will be considered however please note that occasional travel to London office will be required)
• Life Assurance, Health Cash Plan
• Generous holiday entitlement starting at 28 days which increases with service (up to 33 days)
• Flexible benefits platform where you can choose from a wide range of benefits (Cycle to Work, Charity Giving, Gym Membership, Holiday Purchase, Electric Car Scheme etc)
• Access to excellent training and development and fantastic market leading technology to give you the data, insights, and resources you need to succeed
  

The EdPlace way

Our culture at EdPlace and SEG is grounded in creating the best possible place to work, as this helps us to be most effective in helping EdPlace succeed and to be the best partner for parents, teachers, tutors and students. We focus on freedom, flexibility and responsibility to deliver results.

Are You A Hero ?

• Adaptive : We ensure we’re adapting to our customers’ needs and quick to respond.
• Helpful and supportive: We’re a small team, so it’s important to help and support one another to make EdPlace the best it can be.
• Effective : We work towards clear actions to get results.
• Results-focused /Problem solvers : We don’t settle for ‘this is how it has always been done’ or ‘no that can’t be done’. We look for solutions.
• Openly caring and genuine: We take pride in helping our customers support their child’s education.