Project Manager (Evergreen)
Job Description
<p>Interested in joining Blue State's Media Team? Submit your application here to ensure you're first in line for future opportunities. Please note: this is an "evergreen" job post (i.e. not an active job post), but your expression of interest matters to us. While interviews aren't ongoing, we're excited to connect with talented individuals who share our commitment to Blue State's mission.</p> <p>If you came across this job via LinkedIn, please note that it is an evergreen role; Linked In does not differentiate, but we prefer to.</p> <h2><strong>What to know</strong></h2> <p><strong>Help run digital projects transforming the way people engage. </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a Technical Project Manager, you’ll jump right in, interacting with clients, collaborating with diverse teams of UXers, Designers, Strategists, and Developers, leading website development, strategy and technical consulting projects from start to finish. You’ll help turn progressive ideas into actionable tactics, timelines, budgets, and deliverables.</span></p> <h2><strong>The company</strong></h2> <p>Blue State is a purpose-driven agency. We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change. From AARP and Doctors Without Borders to Amnesty International and Oxfam, we transform how brands and causes raise money, influence policy, build platforms, and grow communities of supporters. Led by the most creative and analytical minds from the political, nonprofit, and brand worlds, Blue State is an independent agency in the US and London.</p> <h2><strong>A day in the life</strong></h2> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scope, define, estimate, and manage budgets and timelines for strategy, website redesign & platform focused projects</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work with teams to define product specifications and functional requirements</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Support senior members of the team in managing client relationships and coordination of internal creative and delivery teams</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Manage operational aspects of projects, including communication of client needs to team and vice versa as well as internal team resourcing and financial health tracking</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lead project status meetings and updates with internal teams and clients</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Manage multiple website build projects simultaneously and understand project priorities in the context of agency and client expectations</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Minimize exposure to risk on a project by identifying potential scope creep and working with internal teams and client to mitigate this risk</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Manage and participate in testing and quality control for all deliverables</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lead post project assessments and make recommendations for future projects or project optimization</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensure project documents are complete, current, and archived appropriately</span></li> </ul> <h2><strong>What we offer</strong></h2> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">U