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: Contractor/Freelancer
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 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.
The Project Manager will bring experience of managing technical projects (including Hardware Installation) within a creative environment, to ensure some of our most exciting virtual production projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to budget.
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 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
- Experience working in a Creative-Tech Industry (such as Production or Live Event Installation)
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
Building on our two-decade legacy in the live event space, where our workflow has powered global concert tours for artists like U2 and Beyoncé, festivals like Coachella and Glastonbury and theatre productions like Frozen and Harry Potter, we are also now leading the way in Extended Reality (xR) for remote Virtual Production.
Our award-winning xR workflow has enabled over 300 productions in the past 12 months, for music artists such as Katy Perry and Billie Eilish, broadcast TV channels like ITV and Eurosport, enterprise businesses like SAP and Siemens, educational institutions like the University of Michigan and notable VFX studios like Framestore and DNEG.
We partner closely with Epic Games, NVIDIA, Netflix and many more to further develop and democratize our virtual production solution and enable teams anywhere to create their best story with the most innovative tools.
With offices in London, LA, Auckland, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo, we are a fast-growing company that hires bright, creative, talented individuals across the world to push the boundaries of visual experiences and build lasting relationships with our community.
We were delighted to be recognized as one of the Financial Times’ top 1000 fastest growing businesses for 2021. Watch our showreel to see just some of the incredible work of how disguise products are used
Our values
- Honest. Transparency and integrity are core to how we approach each other and our work at disguise. Our culture relies on clear, courageous conversations and proactively sharing feedback with the intent to help each other and the business to grow.
- Evolutionary. We are always seeking to be even better. We push the limits of what is possible so both our technology and our disguisers stay ahead of the game.
- Fearless. Innovation and a pioneering attitude are key to our success. Disguisers are empowered to experiment, work autonomously and grow from their experiences.
- Resilient. Disguisers are determined to succeed and will not give up when things get tough. We are committed to doing what is right, rather than what is easy, and will adapt to finding the best path forward.
- Belong. We are committed to being the difference. Every disguiser has a role to play in creating an inclusive environment where people belong and can do their best work every day.
Our benefits
We want to make sure we attract and retain the best talent out there. For permanent disguisers globally, some of our benefits and perks include:
- Unlimited Paid Time Off - with minimum time you must take set at 20% above statutory
- Gig Allowance - £400 or local equivalent to spend on tickets every year, to immerse yourself in our industries
- Flexible hours - some people start work at 10am, and others begin at 7am and finish earlier. Create a pattern that works for your team and for you
- Hybrid working between home and our offices (dependent on role and location)
- Long Service Awards (3, 5, 10+ years)
- Belonging policies - including (but not limited to) support for Parental, Fertility, Miscarriage, Menopause and Transitioning
- Mental health and wellbeing support - subscription to the Calm app, weekly desk-yoga, mental health first-aid buddies, Employee Assistance Programmes
- Training, coaching & mentoring
Health and pension benefits vary based on local requirements.
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.
