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 Project Manager, Digital Experiences 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.