Project Manager - Web Development

Hoodoo Digital is an agency with many opportunities both personally and professionally working with a variety of clients and surrounded by a wonderful team of people to support you. We love hiring all levels of talent and work to create a collaborative work environment. Come join Hoodoo Digital to work on exciting projects that span multiple Adobe Solutions!

The Project Manager role is responsible for the successful delivery of various Adobe Solution engagements by managing our development teams and working directly with our clients.

This role requires a proactive, hands-on, results-oriented person with a project delivery focus and a deep business process understanding, including the ability to manage a delivery team in an agile work environment. Experience leading a software delivery team in web development is a must. In addition to project delivery expertise, this role requires internal tracking and reporting to make sure projects are delivered on time and within budget.

Duties

Project Managers will lead new, end to end Adobe solution implementations and provide internal and external project health reporting, guidance, and ongoing support in our client engagements. They will be the primary point of contact representing the Hoodoo delivery team. They will work directly with the client on a daily basis to coordinate communication and facilitate the necessary project meetings. The Project Manager will be the first to triage and escalate any project issues if any and work to get the project back on track.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Track, report, forecast and manage scope, budget and timeline
• Proactively find solutions and remove roadblocks.
• Create and own project plans in Workfront and keep up to date.
• Schedule and run daily standups and provide notes.
• Skilled in managing communications among project stakeholders
• Monitor and report project progress on a regular basis
• Ensure that the delivery of projects meets clients' expectations, within agreed scope of work, budget and timeline.
• Review and approve timesheets for owned projects in Mavenlink.
• Schedule internal and external meetings, provide contact reports and next steps.
• Manage all aspects of the project life cycle from concept to delivery.
• Provide weekly project updates, including risks and issues as they arise to the senior leadership.
• Communicate project status, updates, budge burn reports and health to client 
• Make sure all projects are following agency best practices and meet all requirements.

Qualification and Skills

The following qualifications and skills are recommended for this position:

• 2+ Years of Project Management experience in a software development/web development environment
• Experience in an agency environment, or equivalent client-side experience.
• Excellent knowledge of the web and related technologies including (AEM, user experience, web development, web services, integration, application management and hosting).

• Solid knowledge in project plan software (i.e. Workfront).
• Expert with production tools and proprietary software (i.e JIRA and Confluence).
• Agile, goal-oriented personality, driven to succeed and always up for a challenge.
• Comfortable with tight timelines, dev sprints and collaboration.
• Ability to quickly react and adapt to changing environments.
• Reliable and can establish trust with teams and clients.
• Excellent budget-management skills.
• Excellent note taking skills in order to provide detailed contact reports after each meeting.

The following qualifications and skills are preferred, but not required:

• AEM Business Practitioner experience
• Experience with Analytics, Target, and/or SEO
• PMP Certification

Outcomes

• 30 Days - Ramp up on Workfront and other project management tools. Learn the Hoodoo project approach for project management and start new client engagements.
• 60 Days - Continue and begin to wrap up client engagements with deliverables and product deployments. Begin new client engagements and contribute to internal initiatives to help the team and business grow
• 90 Days - Expand scope of knowledge through training certification. Continue client projects with new engagements and continued efforts. Help refine and identify new processes within the team
• 180 Days - Begin new client engagements. Provide help and mentorship to new team members

This is a remote position with some travel possible.

Hoodoo has a distributed office model, so hiring self-motivated people who can stay on track on their own, with limited oversight, is a must. Despite our office being in Salt Lake City, we are open to candidates located in other areas and working remote. Communication with our teams is handled through email, phone, and Slack. Must be flexible to work with organizations across multiple time zones.

This position may be eligible for: Certification Bonus, Vacation Bonus and Referral Bonus

This position may be eligible for our U.S. benefit offerings, which include: Health/Dental/Vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings program with 3% company contribution, Unlimited PTO, Long & Short Term Disability.