Digital Project Manager - Remote

About SimpsonScarborough

SimpsonScarborough is an integrated marketing and branding agency that serves higher education clients. We spend our days building brands that endure, inspire, and elevate the all-important work of colleges and universities in shaping our future. Recognized as a leader in the higher ed marketing industry, our company runs a fully remote team of approximately 50 employees coast to coast with collections of employees in Alexandria, VA.; Greenville, SC.; Rochester, NY; Los Angeles, CA; and Columbus, OH. You’ll have an opportunity to work alongside respected colleagues who are challenged in their roles, excited for the future, and make each other and our work better.

About the Project Manager Position

As a Digital Project Manager, you will be part of the Operations Project Management team working to make it easier and more fun for people to get great work done while ensuring the agency is improving and profitable. You will spend most of your time balancing project priorities, reporting project progress, and coordinating the needs of our production team, contract workers, and outside vendors for digital projects.

Responsibilities:

• Daily task management across digital projects: including communicating task assignments, following up on project issues and risks, communicating due dates (client and internal), managing phase kickoffs, and ensuring reviews are scheduled and occurring
• Daily project management including: asset trafficking, developing timelines, project planning documentation, change documentation, scheduling
• Ensure teams are fully informed on cost estimates, timelines and resource needs
• Resource tools/talent for immediate digital projects
• Forecast out resources for upcoming work
• Craft digital process maps and workflow designs
• Conduct quality assurance for project management deliverables, internal and client facing
• Manage project budgets and pacing, including reporting
• Manage outside partners as extension of the project team, including contract documentation and accounting
• Support sales with scoping
• Support Operations software adoption and champion our tools for utility and compliance across the agency

Skillset:

We believe in research, so we did ours. Relevant work experience is not a predictor of future performance. Both a bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent practical experiences will be treated equally.

• 3-5years of relevant project management experience, preferably in the execution and management of digital projects in an agency setting
• Strong cross-functional team management and relationship building skills
• People management
• Data-driven mindset with proven experience utilizing metrics & insights as tools for informed decision-making
• Proactive, plan-ahead-thinking in long-term and short-term time frames
• An extreme eye for detail and an understanding of high-quality deliverables
• Experience with project management tools. Mavenlink and Asana, preferred
• Experience in a marketing agency or digital agency, preferred

Salary and Benefits:

• Salary range begins at $65,000 and will extend based on candidate experience and capability.
• SimpsonScarborough offers a full benefits package, including nationwide health coverage, dental, vision, a 401k, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, over 15 holidays per year as well as ½ day Fridays throughout the year (as workload allows), fully remote positions, and a WFH stipend. 

SimpsonScarborough provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Come as you are; we will be proud to have you on our team!