Senior Project Manager

Summary

Join Beyond, a design and technology agency, as a Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale digital projects for clients like Google and PayPal. You will manage project timelines, budgets, and processes, collaborating with designers, developers, and clients. This client-facing role requires experience in agency settings and managing multiple teams. You will utilize Agile/scrum methodologies and oversee all project phases, from initial scoping to final delivery. Beyond offers a remote-first work environment with excellent benefits, including a generous learning and development budget, flexible benefits, and ample paid time off.

Requirements

• 7+ years as a client-facing project manager within an agency setting
• Experience working directly with designers, developers, QA engineers, product managers and strategists
• Experience working with Content Management Systems
• Experience working with 3rd-party agencies and vendors
• BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
• Experience with user-centered design and the latest web technologies
• Process implementation is approached with organization, logic, and accuracy
• Experience working with creative and engineering teams in a lean, scrum/Agile environment
• Design oriented and has working knowledge of design process, methodologies, tools and risks
• Experience gathering and writing website requirements, managing sprints, and launch schedule
• Experience with budget estimation, forecasting, vendor management, and SOWs
• Experience managing day-to-day priorities for multiple team members (10+)
• Comfort and desire to partner with clients
• Expertise in resolving time sensitive circumstances

Responsibilities

• Help create beautiful experiences that transform the world around us
• Collaborate with account and delivery leads on all scoping efforts for new business opportunities from client briefing through to proposal delivery, SOW writing and project establishment
• Creation, management and communication of all product timelines
• Work with team members to build product backlogs and document requirements in JIRA
• Steer and support engineering teams with technical discovery activities, access issues, technical design documentation, and release versioning
• Partner with the resource manager, external contractors, and vendors to ensure all necessary resources are in place
• Champion and facilitate all Agile/scrum ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, demos, retrospectives
• Lead all client communications and rituals including weekly statuses, prioritization sessions, workshops, and work reviews
• Manage website design and release milestones, including the external security review process
• Establish and oversee content intake and upload process for website launches
• Manage project workflows, including feedback and approvals, file organization across multiple platforms, and distribute information from internal and external meetings
• Facilitate retrospectives, identify process inefficiencies and implement optimizations
• Prepare project documentation, including calendars, reviews, status reports, and burn reports
• Direct the daily project activities while ensuring internal team and clients are tracking towards project milestones

Benefits

• A generous annual learning and development budget per employee
• Excellent salary with flexible benefits that includes medical, dental, vision, and a matched 401k
• 20 days of PTO your first year (25 after), plus your birthday off
• 8 paid federal holidays and paid closure the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Flexible working to everyone, under our "Beyond Flexibility" program
• A strong company culture while working on a 'remote-first' basis
• Engaging virtual meetings, company updates, and cultural celebrations