Junior Project Manager

Junior Project Manager

At a Glance

• Permanent Technical Project Manager role at a fast-growing, product-led technology company in the KYC and compliance intelligence space
• Delivery management, agile facilitation, and BA work … no PMO bureaucracy, real ownership from day one
• UK remote, with occasional travel to client and team sites, preference for Northern Ireland
• £40,000 - £50,000
• SC clearance required or eligibility to obtain it

About the Company

Our client is a small, product-led technology company delivering software into regulated and public-sector environments, including UK government clients. They build a sophisticated KYC and compliance intelligence platform on a modern event-driven microservices architecture, working at startup pace with a senior, focused team. There is no heavy process layer here, you will work directly with engineering, product and senior leadership, and what you deliver will be visible immediately.

The Role

This is a hands-on delivery role for someone who enjoys being close to the work rather than managing it from a distance. You will coordinate software delivery across the full development lifecycle, keep sprints moving, maintain a healthy backlog, and ensure clients and stakeholders always have a clear picture of progress and risk. There is also a business analysis dimension … you will translate ambiguous discussions into clear requirements, write user stories, and help the product and engineering team stay focused on what matters. The role will evolve over time for the right person, with genuine scope to take on more product ownership as you find your feet. If you are the kind of person who takes notes without being asked, chases blockers without prompting, and keeps people honest without being political, this was written for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery coordination across multiple concurrent workstreams, from requirements through release and post-go-live
• Facilitate sprint ceremonies … planning, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives … and track actions through to completion
• Maintain Jira boards, backlogs, epics, workflows and sprint reporting to a high standard of organisation and accuracy
• Translate business and client requirements into clear, testable user stories and acceptance criteria that engineers can act on immediately
• Identify and communicate delivery risks, blockers and dependencies early, before they become problems
• Provide concise, accurate progress updates to leadership and client stakeholders … translating technical context into plain language where needed
• Participate in client meetings, project reviews and governance sessions, representing the delivery function credibly
• Drive continuous improvement through retrospective follow-through and delivery metrics analysis

What You'll Need

Essential

• Practical experience coordinating software delivery across multiple stages of the development lifecycle
• Hands-on agile delivery experience … Scrum, Kanban or similar … including ceremonies and backlog management
• Jira proficiency … stories, epics, sprints, workflows and reporting
• Business analysis experience … gathering requirements and writing user stories and acceptance criteria
• Comfortable in conversations about APIs, cloud platforms and software architecture without needing to be an engineer
• Strong communicator … equally effective with engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders
• Eligible for SC security clearance … active clearance preferred, sponsorship available where required
• Right to work in the UK

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, regtech, AML/KYC, payments or another regulated environment
• Background delivering technology to UK government departments or public-sector clients
• Experience in a startup or scale-up environment

Why Apply

• £40,000 - £50,000 depending on experience, plus bonus and Options
• Fully remote across the UK
• Work directly with CTO, CPO and senior engineers, no layers, no politics, genuine visibility
• A role with real scope to grow, delivery coordination today, product ownership on the horizon

Next Steps

Reach out to Ryan Quinn at Ocho People on LinkedIn or send your CV to [email protected].