Brand Project Manager

TL;DR: We're seeking an experienced, energetic project manager to help us deliver a stream of innovative projects being undertaken by our Brand team.

About Cloudsmith

Cloudsmith is transforming how organizations handle software artifacts and secure their supply chains. As a fully managed multi-tenant Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, we enable organizations to build software better, through best-in-class artifact management and software supply chain security. Our vision is to become the software supply chain itself, powering the future of software delivery.

We are the world's most potent artifact management platform, built by developers for developers. Our platform supports over 30 formats spanning languages, container formats, and operating systems, with enterprise-grade features, including vulnerability and security scanning, world-class policy management and enforcement, and web-scale to handle the Fortune 500. Organizations integrate Cloudsmith as critical infrastructure into their development, deployment, and distribution pipelines, trusting us to protect and accelerate, no matter the scale.

Backed by top-tier investors and on a trajectory toward IPO and beyond, we're building mission-critical infrastructure that powers software delivery for organizations worldwide. We operate at the cutting edge of cloud-native technology, tackling complex distributed systems challenges that directly impact millions of developers. Now is an exciting time to join us as we revolutionize how organizations deliver and secure software and help write the next chapter of our rocketship growth story.

The Role

As our Brand Project Manager you’ll report to our Principal Brand Designer, Alison Newman. The Brand team owns how we present ourselves to the market; and their mission is to build an exceptional, globally-recognized technology brand. You’ll support the brand team by managing demands on their time, prioritizing activities that lead to growth.

Key Responsibilities

Planning & Facilitation

• You’ll help us smooth our operational rhythm; supporting weekly, monthly, quarterly planning

• You’ll facilitate weekly, monthly, quarterly planning activities - from team huddles to wider share-outs, ensuring the right people are involved

• You’ll select, configure and use the right tools to support your work - if that’s a spreadsheet, great. If that’s a dedicated project management tool, also great.

Programme Management

• You’ll help us to move from simple task-management to more streamlined programme delivery

• You will formalize brand programmes (e.g. brand standards, marketing/comms, employer brand, website), ensuring each one has clear scope, business objectives, key stakeholders, go-to designers

Project Management

• You will define larger pieces of work within our brand programmes, ensuring they have a clear plan, timeline, resources, people etc.

• You will define the scope of those projects, rally the team, report on progress as work unfolds, clarify/course-correct as required, and deliver the work.

Task Management

• You will triage all inbound demands on the brand team’s time, clarify requests, and sort smaller tasks from larger projects

• You will prioritize demands against business and programme objectives, and communicate with requestors/stakeholders - setting out a plan, timeline etc.

• You’ll connect the right tasks to the right designers, help them get started and support them as they deliver the work

Stakeholder Management

• You’ll become the key interface between the brand team and the wider business, building relationships with various functions responding to requests for information, and being proactive about sharing information

• Communicate with suppliers, helping to ensure all projects are produced to a high standard within the time-frame

Creative Engagement

• Helping us generate ideas, refine them, bring them forward as either brand experiences or enhancements to our products

• Applying your taste, experience, judgement to identify places where we can use design to grow faster / do more

• Watching for gaps in our thinking, our programmes and addressing them with the team

• Observing what our competitors and reference brands are doing, and looking for ways we can push our brand forward

Required Experience, Qualities & Skills

Essential Skills

• 5+ years of relevant design and brand project management experience

• Working in-house at a technology or digital product company, or relevant agency experience

• Experience collaboraitng with teams of designers, engineers

• Excellent project management skills; from discovery through definition, design and delivery

• Excellent communication skills; ability to manage flows of information across a wide group of people

• Experience in digital design with some fundamental skills in brand design, graphic design, comms design

Ideally we need somebody who can:

• Collaborate; you’ll be working as part of a creative team and need to know how to work effectively as a group

• Deliver efficiently; taking the right amount of time to get to the solution, but no more

• Deliver consistently; get into operational rhythm, delivering work weekly, monthly quarterly with minimal wasted energy

• Communicate effectively; as a remote-first company we value writing as a core skill, and effective in-person communication from time to time

• Think creatively; identifying novel/fun/interesting solutions to problems and challenges

• Think commercially; is interested in the team’s work being seen by a wide audience and can prioritize work in line with the company’s wider mission

Impact & Opportunity

This role offers the chance to work in a fast paced environment with lots to learn, and many creative problems to solve. From startups to Fortune 500 companies, your work will directly impact how organizations get to know and love Cloudsmith.

Benefits, Location & Work Environment

You must be based in Ireland or the United Kingdom and have the right to work independently without requiring sponsorship.

Headlines

• A position based in Ireland or the United Kingdom.

• A competitive compensation package, including equity.

• With comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Plus, generous annual leave and flexible working policies to suit your lifestyle.

• Including a professional development budget for conferences and training.

• In a dynamic, innovative, trust-centric, and supportive work environment.

• With the opportunity to shape a fast-growing Series C startup (and beyond).

Health and Wellness

Regardless of your location, we deeply care about the health and wellness of our staff and their families; a sustainable pace is important to us. In addition to generous annual leave (PTO), we offer health and wellbeing benefits along with flexible family-friendly working policies.

Personal Growth

You will have an enormous opportunity to learn new skills alongside your colleagues, and your continued professional development is essential to us because it's important to you. We will support you with budgets for equipment, training, books, conferences, travel, and certifications. The more powerful you become, the better for all of us.

Facilities

Cloudsmith is headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with fully-equipped office space that’s open 24x7. We use our H.Q. regularly for activities like working sessions, team planning, meets and greets, and sometimes other group activities (like games!). We also hold all-hands offsites in Belfast twice yearly, with guest speakers and team activities. Many Cloudsmithers work remotely, so we rely on our online collaboration tools; Slack, Google Docs, Linear, and other popular collaboration tools are how we work.

Equal Opportunity

Cloudsmith is an equal-opportunity employer proud to nurture a diverse workplace that welcomes applications from individuals of all races, genders, and ethnic groups. We do not discriminate on age, religion, sexual orientation, citizenship status, military service, or health conditions. We will not tolerate discrimination of any kind within our workforce.

The Final Word

We're looking for someone who can plan and lead high-quality design work, with an eye for detail and a passion for creativity. You’ll need to be fearless in rolling up your sleeves when needed. We want to hear from you if you're excited to build a global brand with a lasting impact on the software industry.