Senior Technical Project Manager - 6 months FTC
On a 6-month fixed-term contract at Yoto (London, hybrid), this Senior Technical Project Manager leads delivery of firmware, cloud/backend services and OTA pipelines for Yoto Player hardware, coordinating software, hardware, product and vendor teams. Pays £75,000–£85,000 pro-rata.
- Compensation
- £75K–£85K / yr
- Location
- London, GB
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proven track record managing complex technical projects with embedded software, backend APIs, and hardware integration
- Strong understanding of firmware development processes, embedded systems, and back-end architectures
- Excellent communication, organisational, and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical teams
- Experience working with and managing external partners across multiple timezones and regions
- Ability to manage ambiguity and drive alignment in fast-paced product development cycles
- Excellent project management skills (Agile, Jira, Linear, Notion, Gantt, RAID management)
Nice to have
- Familiarity with cloud-based platforms, SaaS, and secure device connectivity
- Prior experience in consumer electronics or IoT product delivery
- Familiarity with regulatory compliance processes, especially software's role in device certification
- Familiarity with manufacturing processes, factory firmware flashing, and production testing
- Experience with wireless protocols (BLE, Wi-Fi), real-time operating systems (RTOS), and secure device provisioning
- Good understanding of modern back-end technologies, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines
Full description
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Technical Project Manager to support us on a 6 months fixed-term contract, where you lead the delivery of firmware and cloud services for Yoto Players. You will drive cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of high quality, seamless, innovative experiences for Yoto families. You'll be joining the SW Engineering Team collaborating closely with the HW Project Manager, HW Engineering team, Product team and other departments. You will also be responsible for company-wide projects, improving visibility and alignment and escalation of critical issues.
About Yoto
Yoto is a screen-free interactive audio platform for kids. We make carefully connected audio players that kids control, with no microphones, cameras or ads. We have a catalogue of audio that inspires creative play and learning with 1,000+ titles in our card store from top creators, publishers and labels - think Disney, Marvel, Roald Dahl and Universal Music. We also create Yoto Originals like BrainBots.
- Voted the 14th fastest-growing private software technology company in Britain in The Sunday Times 100 Tech 2025; and named the 94th fastest-growing company in Europe in the prestigious FT1000.
- Ranked 9th in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2024; and featured in the Sifted 100 fastest-growing startups across the UK&I by revenue growth.
- Featured in Bloomberg’s 25 UK startups to watch in 2023; and ranked second fastest growing tech company in the UK in the Deloitte Fast50.
- Named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Inventions of 2020.
- We’re over 200 employees spread across the world.. and growing!
We’re on a mission to be the soundtrack of childhood, and help families on their own unique adventures. By creating products that inspire independent play, we help families discover and grow with an inspiring world of audio - and we would like you to help us achieve it!
Yoto’s Technology Team
You’ll be working as part of the Player cluster reporting to the Head of Engineering in this cluster. The Player cluster is made up of five teams, three of which are Player/firmware focused teams:
- Plex (Player Experience): a fully cross functional team of player OS engineers, backend engineers, app engineers and QA whose mission is to build playback features and maintain the customer experience of the audio player
- SuPlex (Setup Player Experience): a fully cross functional team of player OS engineers, backend engineers, app engineers and QA whose mission is to build and engage customer with core Player capabilities such as the nightlight, innovative “green button” and setup.
- Yoto OS: a team focused on building and maintaining the lower level Yoto OS that makes capabilities available to the Plex & SuPlex teams