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Associate Director, Project Management (Site Experience)
Digitas
Chicago, IL, United States
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Overview
Associate Director, Project Management (Site Experience)
DigitasLBi is a highly-caffeinated playground where brilliant minds come together to bring bold, award-winning ideas to life.
Our Project Management team enables and delivers great work in the smartest way possible. We are passionate about transforming ideas into real work as we constantly negotiate, organize and understand the ever-changing landscape of digital marketing and technology.
To help with this, we’re looking for an outstanding Associate Directorin Project Management– a digital project manager with a passion for working with a team, for the creative process and for emerging technologies who can produce world-class interactive experiences for our clients. You’ll help create dynamic digital experiences and integrated campaigns for Fortune 500 clients. Our project work includes experience design and development, digital and social media campaigns, digital partnership activations and promotions, e-Commerce and CMS implementations, CRM programs and branded content. As an Associate Director, you will not only help develop and execute the plans that allow our teams to create exciting work, but you will also contribute to large programs of work. To succeed, you will need to be a creative advocate, strive to be proactive, have a passion for technology, maintain a deep project management toolkit and exercise excellent communication skills. Sound like you? Read on.
What you’ll do -As an Associate Director on the Project Management Team, you will:
• Define and adjust processes to meet project/business needs and look for ways to improve processes while coaching team members to do the same
• Annual account planning in regard to holistic team structure and scoping process
• Collaborate with Senior management and cross-functional leads on complex projects and strategic assignments
• Lead client discussions on project plans to ensure client understands project flow and due dates needed in order to meet end goals
• Participate in new business RFI or RFP requests when necessary
• Contribute to capability model definition and management
• Demonstrate strong written and oral presentation skills
• Develop and articulate compelling decks and lead trainings
• Enforce team compliance to high company standards and professionalism
• Participate in team and cross-capability recruiting, interviewing and staffing
• Attend training seminars and continuing education as offered
Day-to-day, your role includes:
• Keeping clients and internal teams moving in the same direction
• Applying either traditional or Agile/Scrum methodologies to deliver a range of different digital projects, as appropriate
• Problem-solving program and project issues; assisting teams in resolution and successfully leading large teams to develop risk mitigation plans
• Actively seeking out ways to improve team and client communication and developing processes that lead to more effective collaboration
• Positively influencing your peer group and a cross-capability team
• Leveraging career experience and institutional knowledge and best practices
• Identifying shared learning opportunities
We’re looking for strong, impactful work experience, which typically includes:
• A four-year degree
• Experience working in Agile for website creative development
• 6-8 years of Project Management, Marketing or related experience
• Mastery of mid to large-level projects and programs
• PMP and/or CSM Certification
• Working knowledge of enterprise tools (JIRA, MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Box, Slack, Trello)
You are the right person if you:
• Demonstrate grit and extreme ownership
• Exude positivity
• Aren’t afraid to share your ideas
• Meet problems head-on and view them as opportunities
• Are self-reliant and motivated
• Build strong relationships
Got what it takes? We’d love to hear from you.
About DigitasLBi
We’ve got 40 offices in 25 countries, each one helping to upend and redefine the landscape of strategy, creativity, media and technology. We’re pumped about the accolades we’ve earned – such as Titanium Lions, Gold Pencils and making LinkedIn’s Most In-Demand Employer List of 2014 – but what energizes us most is the people we work with, the clients we work for and the never-ending challenge that confronts us: Producing amazing creative, day after day.
On top of great values, great people and great clients, we’ve also got tons of perks that we’re proud to offer – things like flex vacation days, tuition reimbursement, gym membership discounts and anniversary gifts for the many people who’ve been with us 5, 10, 15, 20 years and more. And while we celebrate the people who’ve stuck by us and shaped us into the creative force that we are today, we’re always looking for great new talent help us grow even stronger. If that’s you, well, come join us.
DigitasLBi is an equal opportunity employer.
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