BlueState

Project Manager (Evergreen)

BlueState$78K — $87K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience as a technical project manager in digital strategy and agile website development projects, particularly with Wordpress or Drupal.
  • Strong communication skills for effective interaction with tech teams and stakeholders.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication abilities, emphasizing teamwork and attention to detail.
  • Capacity to thrive in a fast-paced and sometimes chaotic environment.
  • Adaptability and problem-solving skills to respond to new situations quickly.
  • Passion for making change with a commitment to quality and progress.
  • Empathy and respect, with the ability to inspire others within the company.

Responsibilities

  • Scope, define, and manage budgets and timelines for projects focused on strategy and website redesign.
  • Collaborate with teams to create product specifications and functional requirements.
  • Support senior team members with client relationship management and coordination of creative teams.
  • Handle operational project aspects including internal team resourcing and financial tracking.
  • Lead project status meetings and provide updates to clients and internal teams.
  • Manage multiple website build projects simultaneously while aligning with agency and client priorities.
  • Identify and mitigate risks like scope creep to ensure project success.

Benefits

  • Unlimited time-off covering sick, personal, and vacation days.
  • $1,000 annual professional development funding.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Inclusive family planning benefits including fertility, surrogacy, and adoption support.
  • Flexible and health savings accounts available.
  • 401K with employer matching contributions.
  • Generous paid holiday schedule.
  • 12-week fully-paid parental leave for all parents-to-be.
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance offered.
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits provided.
  • Remote work flexibility is supported.
Full Job Description
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.

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.
What to know

Help run digital projects transforming the way people engage. 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.
A day in the life
  • Scope, define, estimate, and manage budgets and timelines for strategy, website redesign & platform focused projects
  • Work with teams to define product specifications and functional requirements
  • Support senior members of the team in managing client relationships and coordination of internal creative and delivery teams
  • 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
  • Lead project status meetings and updates with internal teams and clients
  • Manage multiple website build projects simultaneously and understand project priorities in the context of agency and client expectations
  • Minimize exposure to risk on a project by identifying potential scope creep and working with internal teams and client to mitigate this risk
  • Manage and participate in testing and quality control for all deliverables
  • Lead post project assessments and make recommendations for future projects or project optimization
  • Ensure project documents are complete, current, and archived appropriately
The team

You'll be a part of our global Project Management team. You will also work with a cross-disciplinary team of Account Leads, Designers, Developers, Strategists, and other creative folks to get the job done.
What we offer
  • Unlimited time-off (inclusive of sick, personal, and vacation days)
  • $1,000 annually in professional development funds
  • Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Inclusive family planning coverage, including fertility, surrogacy, and adoption benefits
  • Flexible and health savings accounts
  • 401K & employer match
  • Generous paid holiday schedule
  • 12-week fully-paid parental leave for all parents-to-be
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Remote work flexibility

We approach in-office working with a hybrid model. On-site presence is welcome for US staff who are within commuting distance of the NY or DC office. Managers retain discretion to require in-person attendance for folks on their discipline or client teams as necessary, including for those whose roles require them to be in person.

The salary range for this position is $78,500-87,500; compensation will be commensurate with experience.
Some things we're looking for
  1. 2+ of professional experience as a technical project manager with experience in digital strategy and managing agile website development projects, specifically Wordpress or Drupal builds
  2. Strong communication skills with the ability to interact with tech folks, business stakeholders, clients, etc.
  3. Excellent written and oral communication skills, team oriented mindset, attention to detail
  4. Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced (sometimes chaotic) environment while maintaining a sense of perspective.
  5. Ability to adapt to new situations, solve problems on the fly, and communicate with those around you. Teamwork and scrappiness required.
  6. A shared passion and curiosity for making change. This includes comfort with ambiguity, a restlessness that resists the status quo, and a commitment to quality that ensures we're always making progress.
  7. Empathy, communication, respect, and the ability to act as a role model at Blue State

At Blue State, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have. We encourage those from underrepresented communities - women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between - to apply. Even if you don't think your current skill set checks every box below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.

About BlueState

Blue State is a public relations and communications firm that specializes in political campaigns, advocacy groups, and non-profit organizations. The company was founded in 2004 by Joe Rospars and Jascha Franklin-Hodge, who both worked on Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign. Blue State has worked on numerous political campaigns, including Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, as well as advocacy campaigns for organizations such as the ACLU and the Human Rights Campaign.
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