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Junior Technical Project Manager - Children's Design & Engineering
BBC
Salford Quays, , United Kingdom
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Job Introduction
We create amazing digital experiences for the children of Britain. From Topsy and Tim to Danger Mouse, from Newsround to Blue Peter, we work with globally loved brands to deliver websites and apps that inform, educate, entertain and inspire.
We’re a team of over 60 people based in Bridge House, MediaCityUK. Our agile teams are made up of software engineers, testers, user experience designers,design researchers, product owners, business analysts and project managers, all striving to create extraordinary experiences for our young audiences.
Today we’re working on what mobile, tablet and desktop experiences will be like for the children of tomorrow. So we need great people to come and help us shape the future of the BBC.
Role Responsibility
Our Technical Project Managers are key to the delivery of great experiences for our audiences. To be successful in this role you will have the ability to expertly balance technical know how with creativity.
You will comfortably collaborate with external partners and internal teams, actively managing technical delivery end-to-end to an exceptionally high quality. You will have abundant experience working alongside Product and shepherding stakeholders. You are very much a communicator and team player who understands what is required to support treasured products such as CBBC and CBeebies.
You should be demonstrably experienced in how you effectively scale your efforts against a flexing delivery portfolio, whilst ensuring quality deliverables are achieved against deadlines.
Ideally you also have experience of game development cycles and build and deployment pipelines.
This is a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate and develop your skills and to help in the creation of new and exciting ideas for our audiences.
The Ideal Candidate
• To work as part of a multi-disciplined collaborative team.
• To ensure that projects are delivered on time, on budget and to technical specifications.
• Develop key relationships with external partners and internal teams to deliver a collaborative solution.
• To be the technical first point of contact for external partners.
• To ensure that project progress is reported in an accurate and timely manner.
• To anticipate, manage and resolve issues, risks, dependencies and impediments that may impact on the delivery of your projects.
• To ensure all development work is fully tested to meet BBC Standards & Guidelines.
• To communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders using appropriate means, escalating issues as required.