Team Cooper – UK Flash developers

Hey you! You like managing projects, right? How’d you fancy coming to work for a digital amusements agency?*

We’ve been growing steadily for the past few years and the time has come to bring someone on board who actually knows a thing or two about project management**. You’ll need to be exceptionally organised and will ideally have some prior experience in managing digital projects in a creative environment, most likely another agency.

This role sits at the heart of our company and is crucial to our future plans for growth. We expect the role to grow and evolve with the company but to begin with you’ll be responsible for liaising with clients, project producer(s) and the company directors to plan, schedule, resource and monitor our production activities (making sure of course that everything stays on track and on budget). I know, that sounds easy right? So secondary to this you’d also be expected to help out with a variety of other tasks as and when the need arises (we are a small company after all, and sometimes it’s all hands to the pumps!). So any prior experience of marketing, design, development, testing, or zombie apocalypse survival strategy would come in pretty handy here.

You’ll get to work in a shiny office environment with a lovely scenic view including the bus station (We’re based in the Electric Works, part of Sheffield’s Digital Campus). You’ll also get to work with a team of nice people on interesting projects for organisations like the BBC, Nickelodeon, BSkyB and Topps with semi-flexible working hours***.

We have strong relationships with Game Republic, Yorkshire’s indie scene (GA-MA-YO, SHINDIG) and as a part of Sheffield’s flourishing digital community, this is an opportunity to play a big part in the continued growth of a small but dynamic digital agency.

Your main duties:

• Maintaining strong relationships with existing clients
• Managing client expectations and approval of deliverables
• Brainstorming ideas with the team to meet client needs
• Planning, scheduling and monitoring of project builds
• Team management and supervision across projects
• Working daily with the production team to ensure tasks are completed on time and on budget (often to tight deadlines)
• Contracting external resources
• Reporting back to directors on project status
• Being awesome

Does this sound like you?

• 3-ish years experience as a Producer/Project Manager, preferably within the digital/media industries
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
• Proactive self-starter
• Multi-tasking problem solver
• Able to motivate others with your level 10 charisma or baked goods
• Highly organised with an obsession for detail and keeping production on track
• Able to provide concise and constructive feedback to colleagues
• Good understanding of casual/mobile/social games
• Flexible and able to apply different tools, methods and processes to projects as required
• A bit of a geek

Salary is negotiable dependant on experience, although if you’re a senior producer/project manager reading this, we probably can’t afford you (yet). So let’s say, up to £30k.

To apply, please email your CV and cover letter stating your salary expectations to Tim at: .

No agencies please!

Closing date for applications is the 3rd December 2012.

We are unable to arrange international work visas.

*Digital amusements are like, games and other fun interactive digital things that we build to enable brands to engage with consumers. We don’t do websites.

**Actually, you’ll need to know a lot more than a thing or two. Practical experience of project management methodologies like PRINCE2 and/or Agile would be good.

***Generally we like everyone to be in the office at 9am for our daily stand-up meets, but if you want to do more hours on Tuesday so you can free up time on Wednesday afternoon to go to your offspring’s school play or work on your Harry Potter fan-fiction novel, we are usually cool with that.