Project Manager - Anchour

About Anchour

Anchour is a hard-working creative agency of 26 people and growing, offering strategy, design, experience, and growth services to businesses in various industries, including consumer goods, hospitality, financial services, healthcare, and professional services. Our partnerships provide strategy, branding, website design, development, copywriting, and full-service digital marketing.

We're here to discover greatness together, bringing big ideas, useful things, and smart growth to brands that do things the right way. We help the good ones win.

Anchour is committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or if you're parenting the next generation of change makers, we believe that we produce our best work when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.

Job description

As a Digital Project Manager, you're the nucleus of the team: you interact with designers, account managers, developers, researchers, content writers, owners, and execs to keep projects healthy, happy, and on track.

You also work directly with clients and other decision-makers to help identify business goals, align project scope and features, and ensure that everyone has what they need to build highly usable and beautiful products.

You'll plan and write project documentation, run kickoffs, and facilitate all sprints and meetings. You'll also be working alongside our business development team to align incoming projects on estimates, scope, schedule, and the team's capacity. You will also manage stakeholder expectations and report back on the progress of daily and weekly budgets, outcomes, and tasks.

Look forward to playing a strategic role here by supporting and guiding the team through projects of all sizes as you help craft both the high-level details and the tiny ones that make projects and the products we build truly successful.

In short

• Creating technical documentation and tasks for projects
• Working with the Project Management team and Client Services team on forecasting and resourcing
• Working on project management operations and process improvements
• Working on budgets and timeline creation with the client services team
• Dedicated project management for a variety of clients and projects
• Communication with clients and internal team members, respectively, about project timelines and details

Role details

• Plan projects to ensure that they are completed within a defined time and budget
• Create project documentation like briefs and plans
• Play an active role in scheduling and leading all stakeholder meetings including kickoffs
• Support the development of the product vision while scoping, managing, and prioritizing requirements
• Monitor the progress of projects to ensure they meet targets and client expectations
• Ensure all stakeholders have a clear view of activities, milestones, costs, and risks at all times
• Check in with teammates to ensure they have everything they need to work effectively and efficiently
• Collaborate and communicate regularly with internal team leads on project resourcing, progress, and challenges
• Actively work to reduce and manage risk on projects
• Establish and support positive work and stakeholder relationships
• Provide estimation and planning support for business development team
• Facilitate presentation of milestones/deliverables to the client
• Interact closely with leaders and clients on any issues or questions that arise day to day

Experience

• At least 1-2 years of experience in project management in an agency setting
• Previous experience in website/software development, marketing, SEO/SEM preferred

Qualifications/Skills

• Basic understanding of Lean, Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches and methodologies
• High-level understanding of the latest technology, principles, and approaches: lean PM, responsive design, rapid prototyping, digital style guides, content with design approach, UX design, people centered design, design thinking, accessibility
• Clear understanding of other teammates' roles: research, content, design, development, QA testing, data collection, social media
• Ability to successfully scope and estimate digital products (both apps and websites)
• Comfortable setting clear boundaries, liaising and negotiating with the team, executive decision-makers, contractors, vendors, and clients
• A clear focus on people and communication
• Strong risk management with the ability to anticipate potential project challenges and propose and collaborate on solutions with relevant team members
• Familiarity with PM and collaboration tools such as Asana or other project management platforms, GSuite, Slack, and Float or other scheduling software
• Must haves: great sense of humor, excellent written and verbal communication skills, empathy, excellent attention to detail, fantastic negotiation skills, process adaptability, organized, willingness to learn new things, ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority, comfortable leading a team, solution-oriented approach

What you'll get

• Competitive Salary.
• Retirement. Savings plan with a 4% company match.
• Premium Insurance. Premium health, dental, vision, and life insurance with generous coverage for our US-based team members.
• Optional HSA. An optional health savings account (HSA) for employees to set aside money on a pre-tax basis for medical expenses.
• Home Office Setup. Get a laptop + 50% reimbursement for home office equipment.
• Paid & Flexible Holidays. 12 paid holidays throughout the year, including three flexible holidays.
• Paid Time Off. Minimum three weeks of paid time off per year.
• Paid Leaves. Paid parental, medical, bereavement, and other types of leave.
• Flexible & Summer Fridays. Half-day Fridays throughout the summer, and a get-it-done-and-go mindset year-round.
• Lifelong Learners Fund. Cash for professional development (books, conferences, courses), and team bonding fun times.
• Baby Bonding Bucks. $500 bonus to cover diapers, meals, or other baby-related expenses for any employee welcoming a new child