Job Purpose
The Project Manager is a critical role at Pixelz, responsible for leading, coordinating, and mobilizing resources to drive our major projects to success. Currently, Pixelz is executing several high-impact initiatives, such as launching our new AI Studio product and onboarding major global clients. We require an outstanding, professional Project Manager who will ensure all projects are run exceptionally, delivered on time, and reach the finishing line successfully.
Key Responsibilities
Stakeholder Communication & Alignment
- Act as the primary point of contact for project communication, collaborating closely with customers, Customer Success Managers (CSM), production, operations, and other relevant departments.
- Ensure all client-facing and internal stakeholders are perfectly aligned; maintain ultimate transparency so stakeholders are never surprised by status updates.
- Communicate with a straightforward, clear, and professional style.
- Demonstrate strong assertiveness and pushing-back skills to align expectations when project timelines or scopes are unrealistic, even with senior stakeholders.
Resource, Capacity Coordination & Problem Solving
- Lead and coordinate resources and capacities across multiple locations to ensure seamless project delivery.
- Act as a dynamic problem solver; resolve complex issues and provide effective guidance and coaching to the team.
- Maintain a calm demeanor under high pressure while executing rapid and precise solutions.
Project Planning & Governance
- Take full charge of creating key project documents, including detailed project plans, roadmaps, and project charters from Day 1.
- Establish and enforce project governance processes, ensuring standard practices are followed across all departments.
Risk & Issue Management
- Proactively anticipate, identify, and manage potential risks before they are raised or escalate into critical issues.
- Identify, address, and communicate delivery risks early, establishing clear and effective recovery plans for any timeline or budget deviations.
Reporting & Documentation
- Produce highly structured, clear, and clean project reports and post-project reviews for leadership.
- Maintain meticulous project documentation so that any external team member can easily pick up and understand the project mid-stream.
Job Requirements & Qualifications
Must-Have Qualifications
- PRINCE2 Practitioner Certification is mandatory.
- Fluent Professional English (C1 level or above), both written and verbal, is mandatory.
Experience
- 5+ years of proven experience in successfully delivering complex, high-impact projects involving a large number of stakeholders across multiple locations.
- Prior experience managing client-facing projects in a multi-language, cross-cultural environment.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Exceptional project planning, scheduling, and resource coordination skills.
- Outstanding analytical, logical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
- High level of comfort working cross-culturally and with diverse teams.
Mindset & Behaviors
- Strong Ownership: Treats project outcomes as their own personal accountability, going beyond a mere tracking function.
- Calm under high pressure but exceptionally quick in taking action.
- Assertive, honest, trustworthy, and a strong team player.
Definition of Success
- Accelerated Onboarding & Contribution: Successfully drive self-led onboarding from day one, demonstrating the ability to take immediate ownership of complex, high-impact projects.
- On-time Delivery: Consistently meet all critical project milestones and deliverables on schedule, ensuring that timelines are strictly adhered to.
- Operational & Financial Impact: Achieve defined project goals, ensuring that all outcomes align with both operational efficiency targets and financial expectations.
- Rigorous Project Governance: Establish, maintain, and enforce best-in-class governance processes, ensuring standard practices are consistently followed across all departments.
- Meticulous Documentation: Maintain transparent and high-quality project documentation that allows any external stakeholder or team member to easily understand and pick up the project at any stage.
- Long-term Strategic Execution: Successfully drive big, complex initiatives to completion, ensuring seamless alignment across cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
What We Offer
- Flexible working hours in a results-oriented culture with 5 days working from home per month.
- Attractive salary reflecting your impact on business and quality outcomes.
- Full statutory insurance plus enhanced private healthcare (Pixelz Care), along with annual health check-ups and wellbeing programs.
- Work in a truly international environment, collaborating with teams across Europe, the US, and Asia.
- Clear development pathways, hands-on training, and opportunities to build new capabilities in AI-driven production.
- Up to 15 days annual leave, summer day off, and full maternity (6 months) & paternity (2 weeks) leave.
- Team building activities, company trips, clubs (sports, chess, etc.), Happy Friday events, and a collaborative, energetic workplace.
To apply, please send your CV to email:[email protected] with title "Project Manager - Your full name". Only qualified candidates will be contacted.
ABOUT PIXELZ
At Pixelz, we help photo studio professionals beat deadlines by providing reliable, AI-powered retouching at scale.
We've spent years investing in people and developing software to create post-production’s greatest-ever timesaver: Pixelz Platform. The platform is powered by S.A.W.™, a digital production platform and traffic control system, powered by AI and specialized retouchers. The result is a retouching service offering unprecedented speed, consistency, and scalability.
We’re trusted by leading brands in every category and have retouched 45 million product images and counting. Pixelz was founded in Denmark but is now locally based, with offices in 6 countries and a global team of 600 people.
Our vision is to change the way product visuals and studio management are handled in organizations around the world, leading to transformational change for our customers, from the bottom line to effective time management.
Our three core values are:
Let Data Decide. We empower each other to act when we see an issue or opportunity. We take pride in our work, speak up, and continuously improve without the fear of failing.
Build Genuine Relationships. We are in it for the long term. We treat our colleagues, customers, and partners openly and honestly.
Own It. We empower each other to act when we see an issue or opportunity. We take pride in our work, speak up, and continuously improve without the fear of failing.
