Associate Digital Project Manager

The Critical Mass team in Cupertino sits and works should-to-shoulder with our client. We create applications which drive one of the world’s most trafficked websites. We play an active role helping our client connect their consumers globally through mobile, digital, and in-store experiences. 

Think of all the ways that we explore and purchase products - direct from the source, other retail stores both on and offline. This team focuses on maintaining the branding and human-centered design thinking and experiences throughout indirect channel partners digital ecosystem and drive strategies that provide customers with a thoughtful and engaging experience that stays on-brand.

As an Associate Digital Project Manager, you are a creative and strategic thinker who loves learning everything there is to know about a client’s brand, business, and customer. You have experience working with multidisciplinary teams, and you know what it takes to deliver a digital experience that can improve the lives of customers and surpasses the goals of clients. Both the client services and project delivery worlds are successfully navigated by your proactive communication of project statuses, issues, and opportunities to clients. You adeptly manage the project team tracking scope, schedule, staffing, and budget on medium to large sized projects. You have a passion for digital project delivery and want to work with globally admired brands.

You will:

• Manage Client Relations by...
• Act as primary contact of communicating needs between the client, team, and vendors.
• Understand your client’s short and long-term goals, as well as their competition. -
• Inform clients how to drive project success.
• Deliver solutions to drive consensus for problems in a professional and timely manner.
• Ensure Project Excellence by...
• Support developing solutions to drive client business.
• Maintain a unique perspective of a common goal to increase knowledge, communication, and awareness between team members and the client.
• Align the team to project goals by sharing client insights and objectives.
• Create solid project plans with top-down and bottom-up budgets to support clients’ interests.
• Execute project plans according to established procedures, channels, and expectations.
• Manage and maintain project scopes and communicate status of scope to team.
• Participate in both client and internal meetings.
• Coordinate project deliverables and guide the team on potential risks.
• Create an articulate storyline of all client materials.
• Define, negotiate, communicate, implement and monitor quality standards on all project deliverables.
• Manage project communication and document issues and changes that affect the project.
• Develop status reports and work with capability project leaders to ensure all resources.
• Create a positive, team-oriented environment that promotes award-winning work.
• Forecast, track, and manage project budgets and revenue, POs, and invoices.-Identify, analyze, prioritize, mitigate, and communicate project risks.

You have:

• 2+ years experience managing a variety of digital project types; site builds, e-commerce, marketing campaigns, microsites, and maintenance.
• Experience with office productivity tools such as Excel, Word, MS Project, Visio, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with collaboration and issue tracking tools such as Box, JIRA, and Confluence.
• Strong understanding of how to manage and control project scope, schedule, budget and resource management / reporting and change management, project roadmap development, and revenue forecasting.
• Basic knowledge of Project Management principles, methods, and techniques.
• Experience managing teams and conversations with clients around scope, schedule, and budget as well as roadmaps, objectives, and strategies.
• Familiarity with e-commerce is a plus

The salary range for this role, based in California, is generally $80k to $100k, and we continually review ranges to address skills, experience and markets.  Base salaries are determined during our interview process, by assessing a number of factors that include, but aren’t limited to, a candidate’s experience and skills relative to the scope and responsibilities of the position. For current CM employees, tenure will also be a consideration.

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, on-boarding, and employee experience possible!  Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success.  In effort to do so, we’d like to establish the ask that you plan to work from an office a minimum of 2 days a week.  The ask stems from our want to:

• Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
• Improve collaboration and team relationship.
• Increase employee engagement

This hybrid model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM.  We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly. 

CM Liquid Talent is still an option for roles approved to be 100% remote.