Contract Project Manager Job at Blue State (NY, DC)

Job Description

Help run website development projects transforming the way people engage. As a Project Manager, you’ll spend your days leading our website development and technical consulting projects from start to finish, which will include managing clients, and collaborating with diverse teams of UXers, Designers, Strategists, and Developers. You’ll help turn progressive ideas into actionable tactics, timelines, budgets, and deliverables.

Job Responsibility

Manage budgets and timelines for website redesign & platform focused projects, including defining scopes and gathering estimate across disciplines
Work with teams to define product specifications and functional requirements
Manage client relationships and coordination of internal creative and delivery teams
Manage operational aspects of projects, including communication of client needs to team and vice versa as well as resourcing and financial health tracking
Lead project status meetings and updates with internal teams and clients
Manage multiple website build projects simultaneously and understand project priorities in the context of agency and client expectations
Minimize exposure to risk on a project by identifying potential scope creep and working with internal teams and client stakeholders to mitigate this risk
Manage and participate in testing and quality control for all deliverables
Ensure project documents are complete, current, and archived appropriately

Requirements

2+ years of professional experience as a project manager with client-facing experience in digital strategy and managing agile website development projects, specifically Wordpress or Drupal builds
Strong communication skills with the ability to interact with creative and tech team members, business stakeholders, clients, etc.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, team-oriented mindset, meticulous attention to detail
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced (sometimes rapid-response) environment while maintaining a sense of perspective.
Ability to adapt to new situations, solve problems on the fly, and communicate with those around you. Teamwork and scrappiness required.
You are adaptable, curious, and always looking for ways to make things more efficient.
You have a passion for cause-based work and promoting progressive values.
Whether it is Slack, Zoom, or email, you are a clear and responsive communicator. You approach communication with empathy and respect.
You manage your time well and are excited to dive into multiple projects at once.
A shared passion and curiosity for making change. This includes comfort with ambiguity, a restlessness that resists the status quo, and a commitment to quality that ensures we’re always making progress.
Empathy, communication, respect, and the ability to act as a role model at Blue State and embody our working agreements.

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