ZOO Digital Group plc
Software Project Manager
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WELCOME TO ZOO
ZOO Digital are an award-winning cloud software company with offices in Sheffield, London, LA, Dubai, Korea, and India. We help the biggest names in global entertainment to reach audiences everywhere with our high-quality localization and media services, adapting original TV and movie content for different languages, regions, and cultures.
Our Mission: To help our clients share their stories, by adapting the world’s most watched TV shows and movies into new formats and languages for international audiences to enjoy.
Our Clients: Major Hollywood studios and streaming services, like Disney, Netflix, NBC Universal, Paramount, Facebook, Sony, and HBO, among others.
Our Services: Dubbing, subtitling and captioning, audio description, metadata localization, artwork localization and media processing.
ZOO Digital’s state of the art technology services are backed by the award-winning bespoke software created by our ever-growing Research & Development team, ZOO Digital Labs. The team create cutting edge software solutions to supercharge our services and make our customers’ lives easier. To find out more, visit https://www.zoodigital.com/
Position
Salary: Up to £38,000 DOE
Location: Sheffield/Hybrid remote working - minimum 1 day per week in-office
ZOO Digital currently has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Software Project Manager with proven end-to-end software delivery experience to join our award-winning Research & Development team. Research & Development work closely with the Product Support Team to create cutting edge software solutions for high profile and industry-leading customers. ZOO’s R&D department is thriving – you will work as part of a dynamic, lively team helping to provide creative, innovative and quality driven software.
As Software Project Manager, you will work closely with Software Engineering, Product Support, and Dev Ops teams to coordinate and deliver software development work across the full software development lifecycle, ensuring projects, sprints and releases are well planned, prioritised, and delivered on time. You will be the central point of oversight for keeping delivery on track, removing blockers, and keeping teams focused on the right priorities to maintain project quality. This role requires someone who has previously owned and delivered software projects from initiation through build, testing, release, and post-release support.
Day to day responsibilities will include:
- Planning and guiding day-to-day delivery activity across active development work, making sure priorities, timelines, dependencies, and risks are clearly understood and well managed.
- Keeping project schedules, roadmaps, and delivery plans clear and up to date, so teams have good visibility of workloads, priorities, and upcoming releases.
- Keeping a close eye on delivery progress throughout the development lifecycle, spotting risks or changes early and working with teams to keep things moving in the right direction.
- Acting as a central point of coordination during sprint and release cycles, sharing updates and flagging risks or changes clearly and proactively.
- Working collaboratively with engineering leads to agree delivery estimates, sense-check plans, and ensure timelines are realistic and achievable.
- Helping to balance work across teams by considering capacity, skills, and priorities across multiple concurrent software projects.
- Making sure project management tools (including Jira), trackers, documentation, and reporting are well maintained, accurate, and easy for others to use.
- Producing regular delivery and management updates that provide clear insight into progress, utilisation, and potential risks.
- Looking for opportunities to improve delivery processes, tools, and ways of working, and supporting teams to embed consistent agile practices.
- Turning business or client-driven requests into clear delivery plans, user stories, and release schedules in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Maintaining a clear, joined-up view of all active development work, ensuring delivery information is easy to access, understand, and share.
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The Software Project Manager is a key role, helping ZOO to ensure teams are working on the right priorities at the right time, balancing delivery pace with quality, capacity, and sustainability, and providing experienced oversight across the full software development lifecycle.
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WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We’re looking for an experienced, software-focused Project Manager who has a strong understanding of how software is planned, built, tested, and released, and previous experience working with software engineers and technical leads to coordinate delivery across multiple teams, priorities, and workflows. The successful candidate will be organised, proactive, and pragmatic, able to adapt to shifting priorities whilst maintaining project momentum and quality. We’re looking for a strong communicator who can build trust with technical teams and act as a calm, reliable point of coordination throughout the delivery process.
The following experience is essential for the role:
- A full and thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), gained through hands-on work experience.
- Proven experience owning and delivering software development projects from start to finish, working through the full development cycle including planning, build, testing, release, and post-release support.
- Demonstrable experience in a software or technical delivery project management role, managing schedules, priorities, dependencies, and delivery risks across software projects.
- Extensive experience using project management and delivery tracking tools, ideally Jira, to manage workflows, backlogs, reporting, and stakeholder visibility.
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We are also keen to hear from applicants with the following:
- Experience supporting or leading agile delivery, including sprint planning, backlog management, stand-ups, and release coordination.
- Confidence working closely with software engineers, technical leads, DevOps, and product stakeholders to keep delivery on track and resolve blockers.
- A hands-on approach to delivery ownership, proactively identifying risks, following up on actions, and ensuring work progresses as planned.
- Experience maintaining delivery documentation, trackers, roadmaps, and reports to provide clear visibility for stakeholders.
- Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities at once.
- Clear, confident communication skills, including the ability to challenge assumptions and ask the right questions when needed.
- A proactive, problem-solving mindset, with the confidence to investigate issues and drive them through to resolution.
- The ability to work effectively with highly technical teams, creating visibility and structure without unnecessary process.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to stay calm, resilient, and organised during busy delivery periods.
- A flexible, pragmatic approach to project management, applying the right tools and techniques for the context rather than rigidly following a single methodology.
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WHY CHOOSE ZOO?
Our technology is constantly evolving, so there’s never a dull moment with ZOO! Our team is made up of creatives, innovators, linguists, and collaborators from all corners of the world, and we employ the brightest and most original thinkers in our industry. Along with a competitive salary, we also offer excellent company benefits, which include;
- Flexi time
- Westfield Health & Rewards Portal
- Pension scheme
- 25 days holiday
- Free fruit and snacks
- Staff Socials
We value all the folks that make ZOO a great place to work.
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