Planes&nbsp;

We are a team of 35 Product Managers, Designers and Engineers who care about creating thoughtful digital products.

Every person at Planes has hands-on experience launching new businesses and products into market. With us, organisations can confidently try new ideas and create digital products that grow their business and delight their customers.

About Us

We're comfortable making mistakes and experimenting. It allows us to make decisions in the best interests of ourselves and our clients.

Extra Leg Room&nbsp;

We’re transparent about how we work and share our learnings as we go. We welcome new ideas and support others along the way.

Our Gates Are Always Open

We’re experts in our fields and we're not afraid to get things out the door. We don’t just sit on the tarmac thinking about things; we prefer to do.

Ready for Takeoff

Our Values

<html><head></head><body><div>We’re building London’s most loved product studio and we’re looking for a <strong>Director</strong> to help lead the way. You'll be driving end-to-end leadership and oversight of high-impact projects, shaping strategy, coaching teams. You’ll be growing the business with the leadership team, originating leads and converting them into projects.</div>
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<div><strong>🌱 Everyone is welcome</strong></div>
<div>We strongly believe in building a diverse and inclusive team, please don't see everything here as a 'must have'. We highly encourage applications from global majority, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neuro-divergent people, parents, carers and people from any socio-economic backgrounds. If you have any requirements or preferences that help you feel comfortable during the interview process please just let us know.</div>
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<div><strong>Where:</strong> Hybrid; we average around 2-3 days per week in our studio in Hoxton</div>
<div><strong>Interview process: </strong>3 stages with a practical element focussing on process</div>
<div><strong>Salary: </strong>£110k - £140k per annum</div>
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<div><strong>✈️ About us</strong></div>
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<div>Planes is a digital product studio in London, launching new ideas and businesses for leading organisations from the most exciting startups to global companies. We’re a team of doers who care about building things that make it into the world. That means we prefer shipping code, listening to users and iterating quickly rather than long lunches and death by powerpoint.</div>
<div>We work collaboratively with our partners to produce work that we are proud of and our clients love.</div>
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<div><strong>👋 What we’re looking for</strong></div>
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<li>Master originator, converting opportunities and closing them</li>
<li>Broad existing client network with an industry presence</li>
<li>15 year+ agency / consultancy experience, an expert in applying best practices in complex, challenging projects</li>
<li>An all round team player - managed, coached and grown a whole host of different teams, and knows what it takes to make a great one</li>
<li>Confident builder of trusted relationships with senior clients, able to extend projects into programmes</li>
<li>Great communication skills, able to speak to all clients, from C-suite to their customers, and our team with ease</li>
<li>Oversight of delivery of high impact work, extending and coaching our team</li>
<li>Contributing to not only your projects, but the growth of Planes as a whole, part of the extended leadership team</li>
<li>Have tried things that have failed and have learnt from the experience</li>
<li>Be comfortable not knowing everything, but have the desire to keep growing</li>
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<div>💫 <strong>Requirements</strong></div>
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<div>As a Director at Planes, you'll be responsible for providing leadership in one or more projects, supporting the project team. The other part to your role will be growing the business.</div>
<div>Team members will look to you for guidance and advice, and you will be able to coach them in best practice. You’ll be working alongside some of the best product thinkers, designers and engineers in London, people who challenge assumptions, push quality, and care deeply about craft. Which is why we’re looking for these things;</div>
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<li>Highly experienced in winning new business, including origination, proposal writing, pitching, and early stage workshops</li>
<li>Highly experienced in leading and overseeing projects and programmes from conception through to delivery</li>
<li>Champion of good feedback and coaching practices</li>
<li>Highly experienced in running workshops and leading presentations with clients and stakeholders</li>
<li>Highly experienced with project management, including budgets and resourcing</li>
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<div><strong>🎉 What success looks like:</strong></div>
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<li>You’ve built trust with a host of senior clients who see you as their strategic partner</li>
<li>You’ve driven outcomes that raise the bar across our studio and client partnerships</li>
<li>You’ve led and won work that our studio and our clients are genuinely proud of, it’s in market and thriving, and maybe being put up for some awards!</li>
<li>You’ve contributed to building Planes, bringing on new clients and sectors</li>
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<div><strong>🌴 Our benefits</strong></div>
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<li>25 days holiday (plus your birthday off + Christmas closure)</li>
<li>Optional 20 days unpaid holiday a year, for all you explorers out there</li>
<li>Work from Anywhere policy</li>
<li>8% pension contribution</li>
<li>Learning and development budget</li>
<li>Access to the cycle to work scheme</li>
<li>Enhanced Parental Leave. This is a gender-neutral policy where you can take up to 4 months of parental leave at full pay, at any time within the first 18 months of your child's life</li>
<li>Partnership with Spill for all our team to have access to therapy sessions</li>
<li>Annual bonus</li>
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