Disguise sits at the heart of the most inspiring live and virtual experiences in the world, leading the market in building a software and hardware solution that designs, sequences and controls the most spectacular productions across film and TV, broadcast, live and corporate events.
Project Manager – Meptik EMEA
Role: Project Manager, Meptik EMEA
Department: Customer Excellence
Location: London
Reports into: Director of Project Management (US, Atlanta based)
Type: 9 months Fixed Term Contract
About the role
Meptik are looking for an experienced, full-time Project Manager to join our expanding team. This position will sit within Meptik (a Disguise business), and also the Global Disguise organisation.
The project manager MUST have previous experience Project Managing a physical hardware installation into either a Production or Live Event space. The Product Manager will be instrumental in ensuring some of our most exciting virtual production projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to budget.
The Project Manager will have solid client facing Project Management experience; managing complex client facing projects of $5M+, across multiple time zones.
This person will work alongside internal technical and creative teams, as well as managing 3rd party vendors.
What you will do
- Responsible for managing multiple, complex external client-facing projects with budgets around $5M+
- Develop and implement detailed project schedules, work plans and project budgets
- Partner with internal teams to define project scope and objectives
- Manage resourcing for projects; allocating and scheduling resources including human capital and equipment based on organisational priorities and project requirements
- Manage and report project progress, performance and risks
- Client management; comfortable being a point of contact for all project stakeholders. Able to handle, escalate and resolve issues
- Stakeholder management (3rd party vendors, partners, rental companies, internal technical teams, creative teams, sales and support teams)
- Ensure strong & clear communication between all parties in a given project
Experience we are looking for
- Experience working as a Project Manager in a Creative-Tech Industry (such as Production or Live Event Installation)
- Experience implementing complex technical projects for large hardware installations
- Experience managing multiple technical client facing projects concurrently, to budget and on time
- Experience managing, creating and monitoring project budgets around $5M
- Experience developing, delivering and managing project plans, risk & issues, task scheduling, and change control
- Experience handling resource management for projects including allocating, scheduling and analysing resource utilisation
- Experience managing and communicating with multiple stakeholders including 3rd party vendors, clients and internal technical and creative teams
- Experience using project management software such as smartsheet resource manager and Jira
Behaviours and values
- You will have clear and proactive communication to interact with clients, 3rd party vendors and internal teams across multiple time zone
- You will have a positive, can-do attitude
- You will enjoy problem solving in order to manage resources and overcome project issues
- You will be innovative and forward thinking in order to manage risks, increase productivity and efficiency
- You will be nimble with “no ego”
- You will have the ability to remain calm under pressure when dealing with complex time critical issues
- You will have excellent attention to detail, to enable governance and project processes
- Ability to travel both to Atlanta to spend time with the Meptik Project Team (roughly twice a year) and on client site within EMEA (roughly 5-9 times per year up to a week at a time)
About Meptik and Disguise
Meptik is the one-stop shop for bridging realities.
We help our clients build their next virtual production powerhouse, fuel it with stunning virtual sets, deliver in-camera visual effects on set, and create immersive audience experiences.
As one of the most experienced teams in the industry, we have the creative vision and, as part of Disguise, access to the latest Emmy-award-winning tech to help clients Upset Reality™. We’ve done it for big and small productions, corporate clients, major film studios, broadcasts, and live events.
Clients can work with us throughout their entire creative journey, or let us be part of their next visual masterpiece.
Meptik came into the Disguise offerings in 2022.
About Disguise
Disguise is the industry-leading platform sitting at the heart of a new era of visual experiences. One powerful integrated system of software, hardware and services to help create the next dimension of real-time spectacle. We partner with the biggest entertainment brands and companies in the world to deliver the A-list of live music events, live TV broadcasts, immersive experiences, installations, theatre, film and TV production, corporate communications and brand product launches.
Disguise’s Emmy award-winning ecosystem of software and hardware is revolutionising every sector of the entertainment industry. With visual experience software, seamless end-to-end workflows, proven premium hardware and a Cloud suite of applications for global collaboration, we empower the biggest real-time, 3D productions around.
Disguise services offer a 24/7 global support system to meet any customer need ranging from essential technical service and online learning all the way to end-to-end creative and technical services from our creative and build team, Meptik. Working with Disney, Snapchat, Netflix, ESPN, U2 at the Sphere, the Burj Khalifa, U2 and Beyonce, Disguise is the number one partner delivering the next dimension of entertainment.
To discover the next dimension of entertainment at Disguise, check out our showreel.
Don’t Disguise your differences.
Innovation comes from everyone. We strive to create a workplace that reflects our diverse audience. We celebrate our people for their full authentic selves, and embrace uniqueness. Inclusion and Equity matter at Disguise. We create together and we create everywhere.
Our values
- Honest. We are real with ourselves and our clients and share our ideas with openness and transparency.
- Evolutionary. We innovate using our user’s ever-changing needs so our technology remains ahead-of-the-game.
- Fearless. We take the best path, not the easiest, and innovate where it’s right, not where it’s simplest.
- Resilience. We don’t give up until we find the right solution, even if it means going outside our remit.
- Belong. We create an environment where everyone feels like they belong and is empowered to do their best work.
Our benefits
- We have a suite of globally relevant competitive benefits packages as we want to make sure we retain the best talent out there. Our benefits for every perm hire, globally include:
- Unlimited Paid Time Off - with minimum time you must take set at 20% above statutory
- Hybrid working between home and our offices (dependent on role and location)
- Mental health and wellbeing support - subscription to the Calm app, weekly desk-yoga, mental health first-aid buddies, employee assistance programmes
- Gig allowance - £400 (or local equivalent) to spend on tickets every year to immerse yourself in our industries
- Belonging policies - including (but not limited to) support for Parental, Fertility, Miscarriage, Menopause and Transitioning
- Training, coaching & mentoring