Freelance - Digital Project Manager - Creative
Job Description
YOUR IMPACT:
YOUR IMPACT:
A Project Manager- Creative at Razorfish is equal parts planning guru, problem solver, strategic thinker, client relationship builder, team leader, cheerleader and cat herder.
You’ll be leading cross-functional teams and clients to deliver digital solutions. You watch timelines and budgets like a hawk. You’re fanatical about quality. And, you know how to consider client drivers when thinking about tradeoffs between time, scope, quality and risk.
You are key to building a positive team environment. You are great a building relationships and driving team collaboration. You care deeply about individual development and high performance standards.
You’re comfortable leading teams of 15-20 people. You seamlessly bring together multiple disciplines even when we’re using the same words but mean different things.
You will be driving a high performance creative team towards delivering interactive experiences on websites working with the following: Data strategists, experience strategists, content strategists, user experience designers, visual designers, copywriters and requirements managers.
You will ensure the experience design goes through internal and client reviews and sign-off gates; you break down internal silos to bring inputs from different teams when working for a large account.
You ensure the experience is documented and handed to a technical team. You will ensure the creative QA of these experiences working closely with the client team, your own creative team and the third party tech team. You will enable this through a robust process using tools like MS Teams, Confluence and Jira.
You are the primary point of contact for the client on a day-to-day basis.
You may play a variety of roles as a Senior Project Manager:
You’re an expert at juggling a half-dozen things at a time and prioritizing across them as needed.
You love problem solving. You know how businesses work. You get excited about learning the nuances of each client and you bring been there / done that / outside perspectives wherever possible.
You have excellent verbal and written communication skills. You’ve mastered the ability to build crisp and concise PowerPoint slides around a story arc. And, you’re a wiz at adapting your message depending on your audience.
You thrive in a fast-paced environment and know how to adapt your approach when working with people from different disciplines (technology, creative, data, strategy and marketing engagement)
YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:
Partners with other project and or discipline leaders to drive teams of 15+ people. Builds and structures the project team to ensure maximum performance.
MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH CREATIVE TEAMS
Structures and manages integrated, multi-track projects and/or programs of multiple projects. Including
Provides purpose, direction and motivation to team. Clarifies and communicates project objectives and success criteria.
Project and/or program communications
Creation of project deliverables
Scope management
Definition of roles and responsibilities
Development and tracking of integrated project plans
Project and/or program issues tracking and management
Sets quality and performance standards
Maintains project tracking, dashboards and information systems.
Assesses and manages project risk
Responsible for ongoing client satisfaction.
Manages peer-level client relationships (expectations, communications, negotiations, escalation, feedback, etc.).
Develops relationships with and ensures the appropriate participation of key client stakeholders and client executives.
Provides day-to-day project contact for the client.
Leverages best practices and applies lessons learned from previous projects
Ensures a positive, collaborative work environment for the team.
Manages third-party partner and/or vendor relationships, as necessary.
Maintains awareness of the current industry environment that shapes opportunities for client solutions (i.e. news events, trends, mergers, etc.).
Works with business unit leadership to pursue, shape and sell client solutions
SET YOURSELF APART WITH:
Digital Marketing Services background
Demonstrated experience with creation of content heavy websites, interactive design and CMS for B2B and B2C
Client is high touch, so candidate should have significant experience working with clients day to day
Excellent client facing skills
Experience in CSR related initiatives
Experience with Atlassian (Confluence and Jira) and Microsoft Project or similar tools
Additional Information
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