Digital Project Lead
📍 Location: Leeds / hybrid (2 days per week in the city-centre office)
💰 Salary: £45,000 – £60,000 (Depending on Experience)
📢 Reports to: Agency owners
Our agency partner is looking for an accomplished Digital Project Lead to join their team. If you love taking the reins on complex digital projects, guiding multi-disciplinary teams, and building brilliant client relationships, this could be your next move.
With 8+ years’ agency experience, you’ll bring deep expertise in web development, delivery leadership, and digital strategy—along with the confidence to lead projects that matter.
About the agency
This agency is a high-growth business with a unique model. Their core team is intentionally lean, supported by a scalable network of the very best freelance talent—giving the agility of a boutique agency with the firepower of a 35–100+ person team.
They put flexibility, wellbeing and personal growth at the heart of everything they do. There’s no ego and no old-school agency chaos—just a collaborative, relaxed, open culture where everyone gets stuck in and celebrates wins together. 🎉
They work across a diverse range of sectors, helping clients shape strategies across both digital and physical experiences.
✨ What you’ll be doing
* 🚀 Leading end-to-end delivery of large, complex digital and web development projects—from brief to launch.
* 🤝 Acting as a senior partner to clients: shaping scopes, supporting pitches, and deepening long-term relationships.
* 📈 Working closely with agency leadership to onboard new projects and support growth across the business.
* 👥 Guiding and motivating Digital Client Managers and freelance specialists.
* 💼 Owning project commercials—budgeting, forecasting, and ensuring strong profitability across accounts.
* 📊 Reporting on performance, KPIs and learnings, and identifying opportunities to optimise.
💡 What you’ll bring
* 🎯 Expert project management skills across a range of platforms, technologies, and delivery approaches.
* 🧭 Confident leadership—able to inspire internal teams and external partners while managing multiple projects at pace.
* 🖥️ Strong technical grounding: understanding development workflows and CMS platforms (WordPress, Umbraco), and communicating technical detail simply.
* 🤝 Senior-level client management skills, with the ability to build trusted, strategic relationships.
* 🧩 Solid UX and design knowledge, enabling effective collaboration with design teams.
* 📈 Analytic ability with hands-on experience using GA, GTM, and performance measurement tools.
* 🧰 Fluency with digital tools including Trello, Jira, Confluence, Figma and Adobe XD.
* 🧘 Calm, constructive problem-solving—especially under pressure.
* 💷 Strong commercial awareness around forecasting, budgeting and profitability.
Ready to Lead with Impact?
If you’re a senior digital project manager adept at keeping things on budget, on time and to the highest standard, we’d love to hear from you.