Junior Project Manager
💸 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 recognizable brands in US Entertainment
💻 High-end, fast computer
💡 All the latest software and productivity tools you’ll need
Founded in 2008, we are an international team that works with incredible and globally-recognized clients all over the world, particularly in the US TV industry.
Whether it’s developing our own products, producing engaging social content en-masse, or designing and delivering services to help our clients work more efficiently, our work is varied, exciting, and at the very forefront of the latest technology and trends.
Currently, we are a growing team of 175+ people, but still looking for new colleagues who make an impact and believe in the same ideas and values as we do.
If the idea of a fast-paced, dynamic role with tonnes of opportunity for change, responsibility, and innovation sounds exciting to you, then read on!
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, organizing, and monitoring progress across multiple projects
Converting client briefs into roadmaps, timelines, and achievable tasks
Collaborating with your teammates daily to brief them 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
Analyzing data and making informed recommendations for internal and client reports
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, analyze 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!
Modern Tech Stack
We use the latest tools, hardware, and methodologies across our teams. We’re always on the lookout for new ways of working and ensure everyone is set up with enough hardware firepower to excel, Windows, or Mac.
Agility & Openness to 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 organization 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 8 am and 10 am.
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.
Up to £28,000 per year, depending on experience and skills.
Full time employment contract - remote working from anywhere in the UK!
33 days’ holiday
High end laptop - macOS or Windows!
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
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
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
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, Andy, our Chief Technical Officer, and Louise, our Chief Executive Officer.
And that’s it!