AmericanEagle.com
WordPress Project Manager
AmericanEagle.com, Des Plaines, Illinois, us, 60019
Americaneagle.com is a family-owned web design, development, and digital marketing agency with a passionate belief in the power of technology to positively transform business practices. Our focus is on helping customers grow and achieve success in the digital space. We cover a variety of different industries, including eCommerce, associations & nonprofits, government, healthcare, sports & entertainment, transportation, and more. The company was recently named by Built in Chicago as one of the best places to work and to Inc.com's list of 5000 fastest-growing private companies for the past eight years.
An Americaneagle.com WordPress Project Manager is assigned to lead a project at the time of a signed contract and is responsible for the success of the project through the system development lifecycle. They act as the primary liaison between the Americaneagle.com team and our client. The project manager plays a key role in cementing the long-term partnership we seek to establish with all of our clients.
The engagements our project managers lead will vary significantly. This makes the role exciting and rewarding as our project managers are exposed to compelling challenges across different industries, different technologies, and will partner with an incredible team across varying skillsets. Our project managers are responsible for managing our project budgets, communicating with our clients, our project timelines, mitigating project risks, blockers and escalations, tracking and measuring project status, managing scope, ensuring we produce quality deliverables, and controlling the work in progress. Communication, teamwork, passion, pride, adaptability, proactivity, ownership, organization, resourcefulness and positivity are all key to being a successful Americaneagle.com project manager.
There is no typical day for a project manager as they spend time on different activities such as preparing for kickoff meetings, organizing backlogs, sprint planning, attending daily scrums, taking notes in client meetings, building and automating status reports, collaborating with the team, reviewing design prototypes, reviewing completed functionality and more.Responsibilities:Client facing, project management of custom website projectsPrioritize and breakdown the project into executable tasksConduct kickoff meetings with clientsGather design requirements and work with a team to complete designs or prototypesManage the project schedule and timelinePresent deliverables and review to gain approval from multiple stakeholdersManage communication with our clients through status calls, emails, and weekly status reportsManage the project budget, scope, backlog, and change request processResearch, gather, analyze, document, develop and validate functional requirements for web solutions with project stakeholdersTranslate user requirements into system requirements, process flows, wireframes, mockups, etc.Understand how system capabilities can be used to meet our client's business objectivesAct as a liaison between our customers and our development teamEnsure best practices are followed throughout project lifecycleTimely completion and archiving of projectsRequirements:
Self-motivatedUndergraduate degreeExperience with WordPressDesire to learn new technologiesAbility to meet internal and client deadlinesExperience working in an Agile environmentStrong spoken and written communication skillsAbility to multi-task and work on multiple projects at onceFamiliarity and/or experience with some project management toolsAble to manage own workload, take initiative, and assume responsibility for tasksExperience with project management tools like Jira, Confluence or Smartsheet is a plus
Americaneagle.com provides its employees with an energetic work environment and opportunities to further develop their skills. Our dedication to growing our development team is how we can produce excellent sites and applications for our clients. We do all of this while maintaining a family value focus and pushing for a good work-life balance. We offer a generous compensation and benefits package.
An Americaneagle.com WordPress Project Manager is assigned to lead a project at the time of a signed contract and is responsible for the success of the project through the system development lifecycle. They act as the primary liaison between the Americaneagle.com team and our client. The project manager plays a key role in cementing the long-term partnership we seek to establish with all of our clients.
The engagements our project managers lead will vary significantly. This makes the role exciting and rewarding as our project managers are exposed to compelling challenges across different industries, different technologies, and will partner with an incredible team across varying skillsets. Our project managers are responsible for managing our project budgets, communicating with our clients, our project timelines, mitigating project risks, blockers and escalations, tracking and measuring project status, managing scope, ensuring we produce quality deliverables, and controlling the work in progress. Communication, teamwork, passion, pride, adaptability, proactivity, ownership, organization, resourcefulness and positivity are all key to being a successful Americaneagle.com project manager.
There is no typical day for a project manager as they spend time on different activities such as preparing for kickoff meetings, organizing backlogs, sprint planning, attending daily scrums, taking notes in client meetings, building and automating status reports, collaborating with the team, reviewing design prototypes, reviewing completed functionality and more.Responsibilities:Client facing, project management of custom website projectsPrioritize and breakdown the project into executable tasksConduct kickoff meetings with clientsGather design requirements and work with a team to complete designs or prototypesManage the project schedule and timelinePresent deliverables and review to gain approval from multiple stakeholdersManage communication with our clients through status calls, emails, and weekly status reportsManage the project budget, scope, backlog, and change request processResearch, gather, analyze, document, develop and validate functional requirements for web solutions with project stakeholdersTranslate user requirements into system requirements, process flows, wireframes, mockups, etc.Understand how system capabilities can be used to meet our client's business objectivesAct as a liaison between our customers and our development teamEnsure best practices are followed throughout project lifecycleTimely completion and archiving of projectsRequirements:
Self-motivatedUndergraduate degreeExperience with WordPressDesire to learn new technologiesAbility to meet internal and client deadlinesExperience working in an Agile environmentStrong spoken and written communication skillsAbility to multi-task and work on multiple projects at onceFamiliarity and/or experience with some project management toolsAble to manage own workload, take initiative, and assume responsibility for tasksExperience with project management tools like Jira, Confluence or Smartsheet is a plus
Americaneagle.com provides its employees with an energetic work environment and opportunities to further develop their skills. Our dedication to growing our development team is how we can produce excellent sites and applications for our clients. We do all of this while maintaining a family value focus and pushing for a good work-life balance. We offer a generous compensation and benefits package.