Junior Project Manager

Why us?

up to £28k salary on a full time, permanent contract

Edinburgh office or fully remote working from anywhere in the UK!

33 Days Paid Leave

✨ Working with globally recognisable brands in US Entertainment

High-end, fast computer

All the latest software and productivity tools you’ll need

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Junior Project Manager who is eager to learn, grow and make a real impact here at Storm Ideas. You will work closely with our project management team to gain hands-on experience and develop the required skills in order to take ownership of projects and deliver the best solutions to our amazing clients!

What can you expect?

• Solving problems on a daily basis, with a focus on pragmatism over screeds of process
• Grabbing hold of projects and making them your own
• Planning, organising, and monitoring progress across multiple projects
• Converting client briefs into roadmaps, timelines and achievable tasks
• Collaborating with your teammates daily to brief on what’s needed
• Communicating with our clients to understand requirements, communicate project progress and deliver outputs
• Identifying and proactively engaging with problems to generate, evaluate and propose possible solutions
• Ensuring that project documentation and processes are up-to-date and accurate across all projects
• Reviewing what we’re building for our clients to ensure they are to spec and high quality
• Analysing data and making informed recommendations for internal and client reports

Qualifications

What's important to us:

• A minimum of a 2:1 degree
• Excellent school grades
• Proactive attitude; you’re always first on the scene grabbing hold of things
• A self-starter who has a strong sense of ownership and initiative
• A detail-oriented individual who ensures that all work is completed with accuracy, precision, and thoroughness
• The ability to identify, analyse and solve problems efficiently and effectively
• A real interest in technology and recent advancements
• Openness to learning new things and the ability to learn quickly
• The ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

What’s nice to have:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite and experience using online project management software such as Jira and/or Airtable (don’t worry if not - as long as you have an aptitude and hunger for learning new software, we want to hear from you!)
• Experience communicating directly with customers
• Familiarity with web technologies such as HTML, CSS, SDKs & APIs

But these are very much nice to have - if you are smart, keen and have an eye for detail, please apply!

Your working environment

Modern Tech Stack

We use the latest tools, hardware and methodologies across our teams. We’re always on the look-out for new ways of working and ensure everyone is setup with enough hardware firepower to excel, Windows or Mac.

Agility & Openness for Ideas

We actively encourage the entire team to share their ideas, with that in mind we regularly adopt and implement suggestions across the company, you’re the specialist here!

Operating with the agility of a high growth start-up, alongside the support you can expect from a larger organisation means we encourage quick decision making and a responsive, adaptive culture.

Outstanding People

We believe that great teams are built by a mixture of personality and skills, we’re an international team with more than 175 people onboard and we’re looking for people with a passion for what they do - just be yourself!

Flexibility

We’re a remote-first company and support 100% remote working for this role. We have flexible working hours so we start our day between 8am and 10am.

Joining us means becoming an integral part of the whole team no matter where we’re physically working, we have a number of initiatives to create a team environment regardless of geographic location.

Salary

Up to £28k per year, depending on experience and skills.

Employment type

Full time employment contract - remote working from anywhere in the UK!

Benefits

Immediate Benefits

• 33 days’ holiday
• High end laptop of your choice - M1 MacBook Pro or PC equivalent, it’s up to you!
• Top of the range monitors, headphones, keyboard, mouse and gel rests
• Paid training to further your skills
• Annual Flu inoculation
• Team outings and monthly meets

After 3 Months

• Up to £700 to spend on a chair, desk or any other necessary workspace equipment to kit out your home office.
• £750 budget every two years to choose your own mobile phone + monthly mobile contract paid for
• Enrolment in workplace pension scheme with matched employer contributions
• Money towards glasses with Specsavers

After 1 Year

• Performance Related Pay Scheme giving an annual bonus of up to 100% of monthly salary whenever Storm Ideas is in profit
• Access to the Cycle to Work scheme

Recruitment process

Firstly - a meeting with Susan, our Lead Project Manager. During the meeting, Susan gets to know you a bit better and tries to understand if you’d be a good fit for the role, and at the same time answers all your questions.

Secondly – if your interview goes well, you will be sent a follow-up exercise (for which you will be compensated) that aims to test your project management and problem solving skills. You will present your exercise on a second call with Susan and Andy, our Chief Delivery Officer.

And that’s it!