Project Manager, Digital Experiences

Role Description

As a Project Manager, Digital Experiences you will serve in a critical role as part of the Digital Experience & Technology team. You will ensure all stakeholders - both internally and with our clients - clearly understand the work, deadlines, budgets, and priorities and ultimately help our teams and clients succeed.

• Establish work and resourcing plans for a variety of technology projects.
• Inspire and facilitate project teams while closely managing schedules and budgets.
• Maximize team utilization (billable hours) and profitability by proactively clearing roadblocks, planning future activities, and seeking early approvals for upcoming work.
• Coordinate activities of client stakeholders, client leadership, designers, developers, and strategists to plan and drive successful delivery of our projects.
• Manage full lifecycle delivery, including technical planning, requirements gathering, user experience and creative design, content migration, deployments, and more.
• Work with internal experts to assemble, verify, and present project and task estimates based upon approved requirements and designs.
• Lead regular meetings to update clients on project status, including sharing details of deliverables, responsibilities, milestones, risks, and changes to plan or budget, as required.
• Lead regular internal meetings to facilitate daily work plans and identify needs and challenges, and ensure teams are working in an efficient and successful manner.
• Lend support to new business efforts in response to RFPs and other opportunities, including helping teams assemble initial high-level effort estimates, provisional project timelines and anticipated resourcing requirements.
• Support internal operational and IT initiatives.

Qualifications

• A minimum of six years experience managing technology implementation projects using Agile methodologies.
• Demonstrated success leading projects with budgets greater than $100k.
• Experience managing multiple simultaneous ongoing projects.
• Excellent verbal, written, meeting facilitation and presentation skills.
• Ability to work with a wide range of personalities and adjust approaches to work effectively with diverse and distributed teams.
• Experience in effective client communication and stakeholder management.
• Proficiency with Smartsheet, Microsoft Project or similar scheduling software.
• Experience with JIRA or similar Agile/Task management software.
• Experience with Confluence or similar Project Management software.
• Experience with Google Suite (Documents, Slides, Sheets), Microsoft Word and Excel, and similar productivity software.
• Experience successfully leading projects at a digital agency a plus.
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications a significant plus.
• Exposure and familiarity with Content Management System (CMS) and Digital Experience Platform (DXP) solutions, particularly Sitecore and Kentico Xperience a significant plus.

Company Description

Hanson Dodge (HD) is a deeply digital agency - a mashup of creatives, technologists, marketers, and strategists working together to deliver value to our clients every day.