Sr. Project Manager (Digital) (contractor)

Responsibilities

• Ensure projects are successfully executed on time, on budget, and in scope while achieving quality by actively managing scope, schedule, resources, and risks and issues.
• Ensure project goals, objectives and success criteria are clear with internal teams and clients.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project documentation including status reports, meeting notes, and action items.
• Proactively identify and communicate issues and risks and collaborate with team leads to determine solutions and recommendations; seek help from Studio leadership when necessary to resolve high-touch issues and risks.
• Utilize effective escalation processes to ensure high-quality delivery, address concerns, remove obstacles, and provide transparent and productive communication.
• Establish and manage project timelines and deliverables, pivoting plans when needed to meet changing requirements on large complex projects with minimal supervision.
• Foster strong relationships with internal teams to deliver to client expectations and maintain a high quality bar for our work.
• Monitor project progress daily and provide weekly reports on project status (budget, variance, milestones/deliveries, issues/risks, decisions) to internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead meetings with clients and internal teams while establishing and communicating clear agendas and facilitating conversations to achieve objectives and reach decisions; summarize and track action items.
• Lead teams in following internal processes for delivery, enhance processes to generate project efficiencies and increase velocity when needed, and suggest overall changes to improve the quality of our delivery to clients.
• Participate in the project estimation process, capturing PM activities and challenging discipline estimations for accuracy.
• Negotiate and resolve conflict, both within the team and with clients.
• Work with project teams and leaders to create estimates for projects, extensions, and change requests.
• Draft scope content for SOWs and change requests.
• Ensure resource forecasts are up-to-date for your projects on a weekly basis.
• Review and approve project invoices.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of experience in project management of digital products and services (design/UX, developers, strategists)
• Experience in a consulting company or agency, managing external clients
• Proficiency in agile and waterfall methodologies
• Proven ability to manage complex projects
• Capable of developing strong solutions without supervision
• Strong analytical and decision-making abilities
• Able to function independently and comfortable with ambiguity
• Strong ability to lead conversations with clients and present information to effectively manage projects
• Proactive and detail oriented with excellent organization and planning skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Project Management certifications are a bonus but not required.

Pay

For a Washington-State-based role, the contractor rate range for this position is $65/hr to $75/hr. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Schedule

This position includes frequent travel – one trip per month to the client site and occasionally additional trips, dependent on current deliverables.