Senior Project Manager

About the Position

We're seeking a Senior Project Manager to join our Product team and help lead the successful delivery of some of our largest and most strategically important digital products. You'll own projects from discovery through launch and ongoing delivery, ensuring they are delivered commercially, technically, and operationally.

No two projects are the same. One week you could be leading the delivery of a new mobile platform for a leading retailer, the next helping an international client launch a complex digital service used by millions of customers.

Responsibilities

Delivery Leadership

• Leading multiple digital product deliveries from discovery through launch and live operation.
• Establishing delivery plans that align scope, timelines, budget, and business outcomes.
• Providing clear leadership across multidisciplinary teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensuring projects remain predictable, transparent, and focused on delivering measurable value.
• Creating an environment where delivery teams can consistently perform at a high level.
• Balancing client priorities, commercial objectives, and delivery quality when making decisions.
• Championing the use of AI and modern delivery tools to improve planning, forecasting, reporting, and delivery efficiency.

Client Partnership

• Building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.
• Becoming the primary delivery partner throughout client engagements.
• Providing clear communication on progress, risks, opportunities, and commercial impacts.
• Translating technical complexity into language that enables confident business decisions.
• Supporting clients in making informed prioritization and investment decisions.
• Contributing to long-term client relationships through consistently successful delivery.

Commercial & Financial Management

• Owning project budgets, forecasts, and financial performance.
• Producing accurate estimates and delivery forecasts.
• Monitoring project profitability throughout delivery.
• Ensuring Statements of Work are delivered within agreed commercial parameters.
• Managing project scope and change requests while protecting both client value and commercial performance.
• Working closely with leadership to maximize project health, utilization, and delivery confidence.
• Understanding how project decisions impact the wider client portfolio, ensuring commercial and delivery decisions support long-term client success.

Delivery Governance

• Maintaining effective governance across risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and decisions.
• Ensuring projects have clear reporting, appropriate controls, and proactive escalation where required.
• Managing scope throughout the project lifecycle while maintaining delivery confidence.
• Ensuring project documentation and reporting remain accurate and current.
• Driving consistent delivery standards across projects.
• Supporting governance reviews with internal and client stakeholders.

Technical Delivery

• Working closely with Solution Architects and Engineering Leads to create realistic delivery plans.
• Understanding technical risks, dependencies, and delivery constraints sufficiently to support effective planning and governance.
• Facilitating collaboration between engineering, design, product, and client teams.
• Ensuring delivery decisions consider quality, scalability, and long-term product success.
• Championing collaborative problem-solving across technical and non-technical teams.

Continuous Improvement

• Identifying opportunities to improve delivery processes and team effectiveness.
• Sharing knowledge and best practice across Droids On Roids and the wider Apadmi Group.
• Supporting and mentoring less experienced Project Managers.
• Contributing to the evolution of delivery standards, tools, and ways of working.
• Helping build a culture of learning, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Championing excellent project mobilization by ensuring projects begin with clear governance, delivery plans, stakeholder alignment, and commercial controls.

People Leadership & Delivery Quality

• Project Managers and delivery teams can translate client and delivery strategy into coherent priorities, plans, and decisions.
• Providing effective line management, regular feedback, coaching, and career development for Project Managers.
• Setting clear expectations and supporting Project Managers in leading complex projects, client relationships, and cross-functional teams.
• Reviewing delivery quality and intervening effectively where practice falls below expectations.
• Ensuring learning contributes to Droids On Roids' delivery methods, community, and market differentiation.
• Contributing AI techniques, delivery frameworks, prompts, and workflows that improve the quality and effectiveness of the Delivery practice.
• Helping Project Managers use AI responsibly while maintaining strong delivery thinking, client understanding, and professional judgment.

Requirements

• Significant experience delivering complex digital projects within a digital agency, consultancy, or software development environment.
• Experience delivering mobile apps, platforms, or other customer-facing digital products is strongly preferred.
• Proven experience leading multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery, with the flexibility to apply traditional delivery approaches where appropriate.
• Experience managing project financials, forecasting, and commercial reporting.
• Strong understanding of project governance, risk management, and change control.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including senior client engagement.
• Strong understanding of modern software development lifecycles.
• Comfortable collaborating with Solution Architects, Engineering Leads, and Product teams.
• Excellent planning, organization, and prioritization skills.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, and modern delivery tools.
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with the ability to remain calm under pressure.
• Fluent in English and Polish, both written and spoken.

We Offer

• The opportunity to shape real products and client outcomes.
• A collaborative Product community within Apadmi and opportunities to develop your Product practice through knowledge sharing.
• Real ownership of product priorities and decisions.
• Continuous improvement through feedback, learning, and evidence.

About the Company

At the beginning of 2025, Droids On Roids joined forces with Apadmi, a European digital products company specializing in mobile. We create digital experiences that generate measurable value for organizations and their customers. Our group brings together Product, Design, Engineering, Data and AI, Delivery, and Growth capabilities across operating companies.

As Apadmi scales, Product is becoming one coherent group capability: shared standards, careers, methods, and investment, applied with meaningful authority close to clients and teams.