Senior Project Manager

Work closely with the business and the Product Team!

We’re looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our Product team and help to 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.

About Droids On Roids ⚡️

At the beginning of 2025, Droids On Roids joined forces with Apadmi, a European digital products company specialising in mobile. We create digital experiences that generate measurable value for organisations 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.

You will be:

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, enabling teams to focus on delivering greater client value.

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.
• Supportinig clients in making informed prioritisation 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 maximise project health, utilisation 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 mentor less experienced Project Managers.
• Contributing to the evolution of delivery standards, tools and ways of working.
• Help building a culture of learning, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Championing excellent project mobilisation 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 support Project Managers in leading complex projects, client relationships and cross-functional teams.
• Reviewing delivery quality and intervene 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 judgement.

Will be great if you bring:

• 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, organisation and prioritisation 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.

What you additionally get:

• 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.