Senior Project Manager

Happy Cog

$90K — $120K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience in project management within an agency setting, maintaining composure under pressure.
  • Strong communication skills that simplify complexities for varied stakeholders.
  • Interest and knowledge in AI and adaptability to the changing tech landscape.
  • Exceptional organizational skills, capable of coordinating remote teams and multiple projects.
  • Proactive problem-solving abilities, with a knack for risk assessment and management.

Responsibilities

  • Own and nurture client relationships, serving as the primary contact throughout projects.
  • Proactively drive project workflows, removing obstacles to maintain progress.
  • Manage project financials, ensuring budget adherence and margin protection.
  • Lead cross-functional teams, leveraging AI tools to enhance project delivery.
  • Identify and propose growth opportunities for existing client accounts.
  • Establish best practices and elevate team performance through example.

Benefits

  • Promotes a healthy work/life balance.
  • Offers a creative environment for career-defining work.
  • Access to a talented and collaborative team.
  • Provides paid parental leave.
  • Includes paid vacation and sick time off.
  • Offers health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Retirement plan with company matching.
Full Job Description
Job title: Senior Project Manager
Department: Project Manager
Manager: Program Manager
Position Summary:

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead a portfolio of client relationships and the projects underneath them, and to help set the standard for what great delivery looks like here. We move fast, we hold a high bar, and we want someone who is excited by both.
Key Responsibilities

You will own a portfolio of client work from kickoff through launch and beyond. You are the person clients trust, and the person your team relies on to keep things moving.

In practice, that means:
  • Owning the client relationship. You are the steady, clear, human point of contact. You answer the hard questions, keep everyone pointed at the same goal, and ensure clients know they are in good hands.
  • Driving the work forward. You are not waiting on a status update to learn where things stand. You already know, and you are already clearing whatever is in the way.
  • Carrying real accountability for budget, burn, and margin. Delivery discipline is not the dry part of this job. It is how you protect both the client's investment and ours, and you take it seriously.
  • Leading cross-functional teams of designers and developers, working with AI assisted delivery, and adapting your plans, estimates, and timelines as that way of working evolves.
  • Keeping accounts healthy and growing. You notice where we could do more for a client and you raise it. This is not a sales role and there is no quota, but the best people in this seat spot those opportunities and surface them naturally.
  • Setting the standard. As a senior member of the team, you help shape how we work and lift the people around you, mostly by example.
Skills & Qualifications:
  • A senior agency operator who has done this before and stays calm when things get hard. Clients believe you, and your team wants to work with you.
  • An exceptional communicator who can make complicated things clear, whether you are talking to a developer, a designer, or a client's CEO.
  • Genuinely excited about AI and what it is doing to this work. You have shown real initiative here: you have taught yourself, learned from the people around you, and kept up with a space that changes month to month. We are not going to hand you a list of tools to memorize, because by the time you start that list will have changed. We need someone who keeps pace.
  • Deeply organized and proactive, able to hold many moving pieces and many stakeholders across a fully remote team without letting anything slip.
  • A genuine problem solver who sees risk coming and handles it before it becomes a problem, and who can de-escalate a tense moment for the people around them.

The salary range for this position is $90,000 to $120,000 per year, depending on experience.
What we offer:
  • Healthy work/life balance
  • A creative environment to do the best work of your career
  • An amazing team of developers, designers, marketers, and project managers.
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Paid vacation and sick time off
  • Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
  • Retirement plan with company matching

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