Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Local Wisdom is an agency that provides strategic and tactical support for digital communications teams. The mid-level Project Manager will oversee digital projects throughout their lifecycles, manage client needs and expectations, coordinate with cross-functional teams and vendors, and ensure deliverables are completed within scope, on time, and within budget.
Responsibilities
- Oversee projects throughout their lifecycles, maintain project control, manage client needs and expectations, familiarize themselves with, and become comfortable working in, ever-evolving digital platforms, and foster ongoing client relationships and new opportunities
- Work with multiple people, including clients, Account Managers, Local Wisdom production teams and other strategic partners and vendors to manage the day-to-day production of successful digital products/deliverables, while staying within scope, on-time, and in-budget
- Successfully manage existing business relationships with our clients by continuously accomplishing their business goals
- Manage multiple accounts and multi-state/channel projects to achieve business goals
- Identify when a project is out of scope and being able to recommend that provides a win-win solution
- Effectively communicate and rationalize technical concepts and opportunities as solutions to business goals
- Aptly oversee and reconcile multiple project budgets
- Provide production support, as needed
- Work an occasional night or weekend to meet client needs
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience in relevant business area
- • 3-5 years of experience in account and/or project management, specifically in a digital production environment
- • Proven experience and enthusiasm for managing and fostering long-term client relationships
- • Experience building and maintaining project plans with examples to share (can be anonymized)
- • Ability to identify when a project is out of scope and being able to recommend that provides a win-win solution
- • Proficient in simultaneously managing multiple accounts and multi-state/channel projects to achieve business goals
- • Understanding of how to manage client expectations and successfully overcome barriers
- • The ability to effectively communicate and rationalize technical concepts and opportunities as solutions to business goals
- • Financial acumen to aptly oversee and reconcile multiple project budgets
- • A background in interactive & web design and development to provide production support, as needed
- • Well-developed communication skills
- • Comfortable working with AI (Copilot, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini)
- This role requires some availability between 9 am and 5 pm Eastern Standard Time, and flexibility to work an occasional night or weekend to meet client needs
- Prior exposure to content management systems for addressing updates to digital assets such as websites and intranets (particularly in SharePoint) is strongly preferred
- While we accept all applicants, we'll give preference to candidates within the northeast U.S
Benefits
- This is a fully remote role.
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