Website Project Manager

Job Title: Website Project Manager
Type: Full-Time, Remote
Working Hours: Mondays - Fridays, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EST/CST
Compensation: $2,000-$3,300 (Salary based on assessment)

About the Client:
We are an advertising agency headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Our performance marketing solutions help businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 500 brands increase their revenue by effectively targeting and converting potential customers. With a track record of generating over $700 million in revenue, we treat your advertising budget as carefully as we would our own.

Job Summary:

We are actively seeking a Senior Website Project Manager to join our team! The ideal candidate will have a technical background and possess strong digital marketing acumen to work closely with our Web Design & Development team. This is a client-facing role, and our clients will look to you for guidance, ideation, and frequent updates to bring their goals to reality.

Responsibilities:

• Create detailed project plans outlining deadlines and action items for every phase of website development and design from inception to final delivery

• Lead daily or weekly team meetings to review project progress, address challenges, and ensure alignment with goals.

• Constant communication with the Client-facing account manager to ensure there are multiple touchpoints every week with clients. We want to ensure our clients are always aware of what is happening. 

  • We believe in being proactive, and answering any questions before they even come up.

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to determine the desired appearance and functionalities of websites

• Conceptualize the website design process and collaborate closely with development and design teams

• Ensure the project do not encounter scope creep and immediately call it out so clients understand when they are going outside of the scope

• Keep detailed track of all hours for projects via Clickup for Web Dev, Design and communication teams 

• Lead the design process by working with graphic designers, writers, and web developers to ensure a cohesive vision

• Develop user-friendly and visually appealing interfaces by integrating images, embedding videos, and adding plugins

• Rigorous troubleshooting and testing prior to deployment, monitoring the live deployment of the website to address any issues promptly

• Facilitate suitable interventions to ensure the timely and budget-conscious delivery of the project

• Follow the project scope from proposal to technical work-up, quality control, feedback loop, and final delivery

• Document website development processes and procedures for future reference and improvement

• Prepare and present project progress updates for clients on a weekly basis

• Work to find and solve any problems with the function of a web project, implementing testing processes and collaborating with technical staff

• Stay abreast of developments and trends in website design and development, incorporating innovative practices into projects

• Keep projects on budget or below, always putting the partner(client) first

• Put together comprehensive SOWs for new projects with a 90% accuracy of scope hours based on investigation, experience, and research

Qualifications:

Must-Haves:

• 5+ years’ experience working in a technical project management role within an agency setting handling multiple clients simultaneously (8-12).

• 5+ years’ experience working with e-commerce and D2C brands

• Experience working with platforms such as Shopify, Figma, WooCommerce, and WordPress is an absolute must. No exceptions.

• Experience working with budgets between $10,000 - $100,000 + per project

• Experience in client-facing roles.

• Having a keen eye for design is an absolute must

• Challenge the status quo and don’t accept things that can be better

• Digital marketing acumen is a huge plus

• Ability to interpret data to proactively identify and solve problems

• Identify areas of opportunity with clients marketing materials, website, and overall business

• Communication skills - the kind where your message gets through to any audience

• Creative problem-solving capabilities: think outside the box, inside the box, and all around the box

• Ability to prioritize the priorities at the moment; know what you need to do and when you need to do it

• Collaborate effectively in a team environment

• Integrity, optimism, and respect regardless of the situation - are non-negotiable

Nice-to-Haves:

• Experience working with tools such as Adobe and Photoshop is a big plus