Digital Senior / Associate Executive Project Manager (Remote)

Description

Metajive is a creative agency that thrives on excellence without ego. We're passionate about creating exceptional digital solutions rooted in a deep understanding of our clients' needs. We work with a diverse range of clients, from niche brands to Fortune 10 companies, delivering top-tier digital experiences that include: strategy, websites, e-commerce, apps, systems, and other digital products.

We’re looking for a highly experienced and dynamic Senior or Associate Executive Project Manager to be responsible for delivering best-in-class digital executions and overseeing multiple high-impact client engagements. Leveraging your deep understanding of the digital landscape, you will guide both internal teams and clients through the complex project lifecycle. Beyond delivery, you will act as a strategic partner to our clients, a mentor to our production team, and a driving force behind new business cultivation.

If you are a proactive leader, a strategic thinker, and an exceptional communicator who leads by example, we want you on our team.

• This is not a marketing, social, content creator, or IT project manager role.
• This is a freelancer / Independent Contractor role for project-based work, there is a possibility that it could become something more.

Requirements

Responsibilities:

• Project Leadership: Lead and manage the entire project lifecycle for a variety of digital projects, including strategy, websites, e-commerce, videos, systems, and other digital products.
• Scope Management: Define project scope of work, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with clients and internal teams.
• Timeline & Budget Management: Develop and manage daily tasks, and create detailed project plans, timelines, and budgets, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Resource Allocation: Effectively allocate and manage project resources, including producers, designers, developers, QA specialists, and external resources.
• Risk Management: Identify and assess potential project risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Communication & Collaboration: Facilitate clear and consistent communication between clients, internal teams, and stakeholders.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure projects meet the highest quality standards and client expectations.
• Process Improvement: Drive process optimization and adherence. Contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of project management processes and best practices.
• Client Relationship Management: Manage client expectations, multiple demands, and competing priorities with finesse. Serve as a point of escalation for client projects. Build and maintain strong relationships with key clients.
• New Business: Manage new business opportunities and establish project approaches and scopes for new engagements.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of proven experience as a Project Manager in a creative agency setting.
• Solid understanding of the project lifecycle, including Agile methodologies.
• Experience managing a variety of digital projects, including websites, e-commerce, and system designs.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to prioritize effectively.
• Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., Jira, Asana, Trello, ClickUp).
• Ability to manage client expectations, multiple demands, and competing priorities.
• Ability to own and execute projects from conception to completion, including scheduling, task assignment, progress tracking, and status reporting.
• Experience in organizing project schedules, including task lists, dependencies, milestones, and review meetings.
• Experience in managing project financials, including estimates, budget tracking, and revenue.
• Ability to manage project resources within a matrix organization.
• Skill in managing project risk and developing mitigation plans.
• Ability to manage trade-offs between scope, quality, time, and cost.
• Experience in managing project scope, including statements of work, requirements documentation, change requests, and maintenance logs.
• Deep digital experience, understanding of best practices, and project management methodologies.
• Ability to work independently and drive every phase of the project lifecycle.
• Natural leadership skills with the ability to mentor junior team members.
• Comfortable overseeing large interactive projects with major sub-projects or programs of interrelated projects.

Bonus Skills:

• Proficiency in the following systems:
• Slack
• ClickUp
• Harvest/Forecast
• Google Suite
• Smartsheets