Software Project Manager

ZOO Digital is an award‑winning cloud software company with offices in Sheffield, London, LA, Dubai, Korea, and India. We help the biggest names in global entertainment reach audiences everywhere with high‑quality localization and media services, adapting original TV and movie content for different languages, regions, and cultures.

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.

Major Hollywood studios and streaming services, such as Disney, Netflix, NBC Universal, Paramount, Facebook, Sony, and HBO, among others.

Dubbing, subtitling and captioning, audio description, metadata localization, artwork localization and media processing.

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 to join our award‑winning Research & Development team. R&D works closely with the Product Support Team to create cutting‑edge software solutions for high‑profile customers. As a Software Project Manager, you will coordinate and deliver software development work, 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.

• Planning and guiding day‑to‑day delivery activity, ensuring priorities, timelines, dependencies and risks are clearly understood and well managed.
• Keeping project schedules, roadmaps and delivery plans up to date so teams have good visibility of workloads, priorities and upcoming releases.
• Monitoring delivery progress, spotting risks or changes early and working with teams to keep things moving in the right direction.
• Acting as the central point of coordination during release cycles, sharing updates and flagging risks or changes proactively.
• Collaborating with engineering leads to agree on delivery estimates, sense‑check plans and ensure timelines are realistic and achievable.
• Balancing work across teams by considering capacity, skills and priorities across multiple projects.
• Maintaining project tools, trackers, documentation and reporting so they are accurate and easy to use.
• Producing regular delivery and management updates that provide clear insight into progress, utilisation and potential risks.
• Identifying 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 to keep delivery information easily accessible and understandable.

We’re looking for an experienced, software‑focused Project Manager who understands how software is planned, built, tested and released, and who has previous experience coordinating delivery across multiple teams, priorities and workflows.

• Demonstrable experience in a software or technical delivery project management role, managing schedules, priorities, dependencies and delivery risks across software projects.
• Experience supporting or leading agile delivery, including sprint planning, backlog management, stand‑ups and release coordination.
• Confidence working closely with software engineers, technical leads, Dev Ops and product stakeholders to keep delivery on track and resolve blockers.
• Hands‑on 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.
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