Operations & Leadership

Project Manager

Turn moving parts into coordinated delivery.

What you’ll work on

  • Help plan and coordinate real client projects
  • Act as a communication bridge between clients and delivery teams
  • Support standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and other team processes
  • Track progress, risks, dependencies, and changing requirements
  • Learn how estimation, communication, and stakeholder expectations affect delivery

Professional capabilities you’ll develop

  • Project planning and coordination
  • Clear client and team communication
  • Sprint planning and estimation
  • Risk and dependency management
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Understanding how teams actually deliver work

Tools and practices you may work with

  • Agile and Scrum
  • Jira and project management tools
  • Sprint planning
  • Estimation
  • Risk management
  • Stakeholder management

Examples of real work

  • Coordinating teams working across client web and mobile products
  • Supporting communication and delivery across live projects

Who this suits

You like making sense of moving parts, communicating with different people, and helping a team turn plans into actual delivery. You don’t have to be a coder, but you need to be comfortable around technology.


Prerequisites

Prerequisites are a starting point, not a promise that you already know everything. You're expected to learn during the experience — but you also need enough foundation to participate in real work and take responsibility for your own progress.

Project Manager

  • Strong communication and organisational skills
  • Basic understanding of software development workflows
  • Familiarity with task/project management tools is helpful
  • Ability to track multiple pieces of work
  • Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical people
  • Willingness to learn how software teams actually deliver work

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