Hanson Dodge Creative
Technology Project Manager
Hanson Dodge Creative, Stevens Point, WI
Technology Project Manager (Mid- to Senior-Level)
Hanson Dodge (HD) is a deeply digital agency - a mashup of creatives, technologists, marketers, and strategists working together to deliver value to our clients every day. A project manager at HD is right at the center of our success, coordinating the team's efforts as we deliver transformative and inspiring work.
As a Technology Project Manager, you will serve in a critical role as part of the Digital Experience & Technology team. You will ensure all stakeholders - both internally and with our clients - clearly understand the work, deadlines, budgets, and priorities and ultimately help our teams and clients succeed.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
This position is open to Milwaukee area and remote candidates. Remote candidates must reside in the continental U.S. to be considered.
Regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability, Hanson Dodge is committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone's talents are valued and developed to their fullest.
Hanson Dodge (HD) is a deeply digital agency - a mashup of creatives, technologists, marketers, and strategists working together to deliver value to our clients every day. A project manager at HD is right at the center of our success, coordinating the team's efforts as we deliver transformative and inspiring work.
As a Technology Project Manager, you will serve in a critical role as part of the Digital Experience & Technology team. You will ensure all stakeholders - both internally and with our clients - clearly understand the work, deadlines, budgets, and priorities and ultimately help our teams and clients succeed.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Establish work and resourcing plans for a variety of technology projects.
- Inspire and facilitate project teams while closely managing schedules and budgets.
- Maximize team utilization (billable hours) and profitability by proactively clearing roadblocks, planning future activities, and seeking early approvals for upcoming work.
- Coordinate activities of client stakeholders, client leadership, designers, developers, and strategists to plan and drive successful delivery of our projects.
- Manage full lifecycle delivery, including technical planning, requirements gathering, user experience and creative design, content migration, deployments, and more.
- Work with internal experts to assemble, verify, and present project and task estimates based upon approved requirements and designs.
- Lead regular meetings to update clients on project status, including sharing details of deliverables, responsibilities, milestones, risks, and changes to plan or budget, as required.
- Lead regular internal meetings to facilitate daily work plans and identify needs and challenges, and ensure teams are working in an efficient and successful manner.
- Lend support to new business efforts in response to RFPs and other opportunities, including helping teams assemble initial high-level effort estimates, provisional project timelines and anticipated resourcing requirements.
- Support internal operational and IT initiatives.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
- A minimum of six years experience managing technology implementation projects using Agile methodologies.
- Demonstrated success leading projects with budgets greater than $100k.
- Experience managing multiple simultaneous ongoing projects.
- Excellent verbal, written, meeting facilitation and presentation skills.
- Ability to work with a wide range of personalities and adjust approaches to work effectively with diverse and distributed teams.
- Experience in effective client communication and stakeholder management.
- Proficiency with Smartsheet, Microsoft Project or similar scheduling software.
- Experience with JIRA or similar Agile/Task management software.
- Experience with Confluence or similar Project Management software.
- Experience with Google Suite (Documents, Slides, Sheets), Microsoft Word and Excel, and similar productivity software.
- Experience successfully leading projects at a digital agency a plus.
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications a significant plus.
- Exposure and familiarity with Content Management System (CMS) and Digital Experience Platform (DXP) solutions, particularly Sitecore and Kentico Xperience a significant plus.
This position is open to Milwaukee area and remote candidates. Remote candidates must reside in the continental U.S. to be considered.
Regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability, Hanson Dodge is committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone's talents are valued and developed to their fullest.