Project Manager, IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create project timelines, and manage creative, development milestones and deliverables.

• Foster an environment that adapts quickly to creative change and focuses on Agile development principles.

• Maintain creative, production, and technical goals set forth by our teams and clients.

• Manage overall project organization to ensure requirements and project deliverable dates can be clearly communicated to the product and account leaders.

• Capture and record meeting notes and ensure action items are completed promptly.

• Ensure solutions to technical problems through discussion with technical teams to resolve problems.

• Partner with development team members to understand opportunities and limitations of solutions being implemented.

• Effectively balance the needs of the client, as well as the needs of the agency and internal teams.

• Manage all deliverables with any required external vendors.

• Provide production and technical knowledge, in addition to innovation insight, in order to arrive at the best possible execution decisions.

• Identify, procure and manage outside vendors that are best suited for assigned projects, when required.

• Work closely with Scrum Master to track sprint progress against overall project timelines.

• Manage resources for each assigned project to ensure that the project remains on schedule.

• Working closely with the product and account leads to remaining in full communication on the status and details of each project, including any cost or timing issues that may arise.

• Anticipate any potential issues with the project through quick responses and proactive critical thinking.

• Demonstrate skilled problem-solving capabilities to determine solutions and options to resolve problems.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience leading projects within a technical environment.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience leading projects in an Agile development environment

• Strong knowledge and competence utilizing Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Must be incredibly detail oriented.

• Experience working directly with creative team members and development engineers.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Creative and analytical thinker with strong problem-solving capabilities.

• Comprehensive knowledge and experience working in digital marketing and media.

• Understanding of project management, and the web and mobile technologies.

• Technical knowledge of various systems (technology).

• Bachelor s degree required.

• PMP certification preferred.