Project Manager

Contract

The role of Project Manager has been created to help manage the delivery of improvements to SydneyMusic’s product experience across our digital channels. This includes our website, email newsletter, and user journeys between social media and our own properties.

At a glance

• Job applications close: 10 Sept 2026, 5:00 pm
• Hourly rate set according to market rate for skill and experience (pitch what you reckon you’re worth)
• Set your own hours (scope and timeframes set as a team)
• Work from anywhere (our office is in Chippendale)

About the gig

In this role you will:

• Maintain our roadmap to keep it clearly defined and actionable. Work with SydneyMusic leadership to understand our strategic priorities and ensure they are reflected in our planning tools.
• Help to define requirements and break down tasks so the team can move smoothly — ensure that the team can deliver efficiently and within scope .
• Ensure that work is being delivered within time expectations. We are working on a limited budget, so ensuring that we have good boundaries established for managing scope and when we are behind schedule is very important!

This role is a contract role and will be carried according to a pre-approved working cadence or scope. Your time will need to be approved in advance by the Product & Operations Director.

SydneyMusic is an AI-free organisation. We have elected to do without relying on AI for coding, planning, productivity or research. You will need to be OK with designing by hand and doing things yourself. We think it’s worth it.

Who this role is for

You will need to have:

• Experience with Agile methodologies via Scrum and/or Kanban a strong advantage
• Prior commercial experience in a project management / delivery management capacity
• A passion for grassroots artistic communities and a history of participation and organisation - including artist-run collectives, music promotion, live music attendance, and grassroot

About SydneyMusic

SydneyMusic.net is a not-for-profit organisation that maintains a local, 100% human researched and edited gig guide to help solve the problem of discoverability for our grassroots music community. The guide is available through our website, Instagram Stories, an e-mail newsletter and a streaming playlist.

Got questions?

Talk to Joe Hardy at joe@sydneymusic.net