Carimus
Project Manager
Carimus, Raleigh, NC
About Carimus & the Role
We are Carimus, a brand experience and digital transformation agency. Founded in 2013, we bring together the best of art and engineering to make an impact in a digital world. We've fused strategy, creativity, and technology to help brands and products breakthrough and connect to their audience on an emotional level. We take a human-centered approach both internally and externally to create impactful experiences for both our employees and clients.
Our team is looking for a Project Manager who is a motivated, creative individual who will act as a single point of contact throughout projects for our clients. The Project Manager will be the liaison between the development team, creative team, and external customers, facilitating communication as necessary to drive projects from conception to completion. The ideal candidate will have a proven background in project delivery of complex projects in the agency space working on creative and branding projects.
This individual will work as part of the highly collaborative, cross-functional, agile development team. The candidate will be responsible for managing projects leveraging several tools including but not limited to Google Apps, Slack, Harvest, Jira, and Asana. The ideal candidate will understand that the Project Manager is responsible and accountable for the success of each project. In this role, you will develop long-lasting customer relationships that encourage retention and growth.
What you'll do...
Qualifications:
Our values:
At Carimus, these values guide every interaction and collaboration internally and with our clients.
Carimus 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.
We are Carimus, a brand experience and digital transformation agency. Founded in 2013, we bring together the best of art and engineering to make an impact in a digital world. We've fused strategy, creativity, and technology to help brands and products breakthrough and connect to their audience on an emotional level. We take a human-centered approach both internally and externally to create impactful experiences for both our employees and clients.
Our team is looking for a Project Manager who is a motivated, creative individual who will act as a single point of contact throughout projects for our clients. The Project Manager will be the liaison between the development team, creative team, and external customers, facilitating communication as necessary to drive projects from conception to completion. The ideal candidate will have a proven background in project delivery of complex projects in the agency space working on creative and branding projects.
This individual will work as part of the highly collaborative, cross-functional, agile development team. The candidate will be responsible for managing projects leveraging several tools including but not limited to Google Apps, Slack, Harvest, Jira, and Asana. The ideal candidate will understand that the Project Manager is responsible and accountable for the success of each project. In this role, you will develop long-lasting customer relationships that encourage retention and growth.
What you'll do...
- Manage around 8-12 active accounts with the goal of increasing account footprint through monthly recurring revenue and delivery
- Track and roll up crucial information that allows the leadership to understand the health of the project
- P&L (profit and loss)
- Delivery team utilization percent
- Effective rate
- Plans, organizes, monitors, and controls projects using appropriate tools and techniques to ensure the project team adheres to project requirements
- Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
- Develop and maintain a project plan, which outlines a project's tasks, milestone dates, status, costs, and allocation of resources to stakeholders and other interested parties.
- Establishes and leads internal and external meetings and assigned team members
- Anticipate problems and find resolutions before that problem can derail a major milestone or deliverable
- Monitor scope creep and converts into billable change request when possible
- Work closely with Dev Coverage Team Planner to ensure team has the proper skill alignment with assigned team members
- Ensures client expectations are met/exceeded
- Conducts lessons learned with project team at the close of each project
Qualifications:
- 5 years + of experience as a project manager managing complex projects in the creative, design, and/or web spaces
- Bachelor's Degree in Communication, Business Administration, or other related fields
- Creative / web agency experience
- Experience managing client-facing projects with a focus on creative or web development projects
- Excellent organizational skills including the ability to manage multiple projects at once
- Solid analytical and problem-solving skills and strong attention to details
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
- Passion for superb customer experience
- Have a strong sense of ownership for the result of the work she/he does.
Our values:
At Carimus, these values guide every interaction and collaboration internally and with our clients.
- Live in the ZOPD We continually expand our skills by working in the Zone of Proximal Development. We take measured risks and incorporate new technology, but only what we can deliver with excellence.
- Be Transparent & Tenacious We don't hide from the truth and won't let our clients, either. We embrace reality, own our mistakes, and attack problems with teamwork and creativity.
- Invest in Relationships Life is better doing interesting things with people we like. We build trusting relationships and strong connections-with our employees and our clients. We go further together.
- Create Exceptional Experiences We exceed expectations-yours and ours. We unite art and engineering in smart, compelling ways that inspire confidence and human connection. We excite and engage, from concept to launch.
- Commit to Caring Caring is in our blood-and our name, "Care I Must." We're proudest when we tackle real problems and advance positive change for people and the environment. Let's get to work.
Carimus 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.