Description
Beyond is a design and technology agency made up of passionate people focused on creating and delivering beautiful experiences for clients including Google, PayPal, SEGA and Snap. Our NA offices are hubbed in New York City and San Francisco, but we are operating with a remote-first model.
Role Overview
Beyond is looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager with agency experience to lead large-scale programs of digital websites and products. Reporting into the Group Program Director, our Project Managers own timelines, scopes, budgets, process and documentation, and make critical decisions on all of the above. In this client-facing role, you will manage different types of projects from research and insights, to conception and design, to implementation. Your expertise and optimism will keep the team working harmoniously.
About The Role:
What does it mean to be a Senior Project Manager at Beyond? Well, you'll do things like:
- Help create beautiful experiences that transform the world around us
- Collaborate with account and delivery leads on all scoping efforts for new business opportunities from client briefing through to proposal delivery, SOW writing and project establishment
- Creation, management and communication of all product timelines
- Work with team members to build product backlogs and document requirements in JIRA.
- Steer and support engineering teams with technical discovery activities, access issues, technical design documentation, and release versioning
- Partner with the resource manager, external contractors, and vendors to ensure all necessary resources are in place
- Champion and facilitate all Agile/scrum ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, demos, retrospectives
- Lead all client communications and rituals including weekly statuses, prioritization sessions, workshops, and work reviews
- Manage website design and release milestones, including the external security review process
- Establish and oversee content intake and upload process for website launches
- Manage project workflows, including feedback and approvals, file organization across multiple platforms, and distribute information from internal and external meetings
- Facilitate retrospectives, identify process inefficiencies and implement optimizations
- Prepare project documentation, including calendars, reviews, status reports, and burn reports
- Direct the daily project activities while ensuring internal team and clients are tracking towards project milestones.
Requirements
As a Senior Project Manager at Beyond, we'd like you to bring:
- 7+ years as a client-facing project manager within an agency setting
- Experience working directly with designers, developers, QA engineers, product managers and strategists
- Experience working with Content Management Systems
- Experience working with 3rd-party agencies and vendors
- BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
Required Skills:
- Experience with user-centered design and the latest web technologies
- Process implementation is approached with organization, logic, and accuracy.
- Experience working with creative and engineering teams in a lean, scrum/Agile environment
- Design oriented and has working knowledge of design process, methodologies, tools and risks
- Experience gathering and writing website requirements, managing sprints, and launch schedule
- Experience with budget estimation, forecasting, vendor management, and SOWs
- Experience managing day-to-day priorities for multiple team members (10+)
- Comfort and desire to partner with clients
- Expertise in resolving time sensitive circumstances
Benefits
And in return, Beyond offers:
- A generous annual learning and development budget per employee
- Excellent salary with flexible benefits that includes medical, dental, vision, and a matched 401k
- 20 days of PTO your first year (25 after), plus your birthday off
- 8 paid federal holidays and paid closure the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
- Flexible working to everyone, under our "Beyond Flexibility" program. Ask about this at the interview!
- A strong company culture while working on a 'remote-first' basis
- Engaging virtual meetings, company updates, and cultural celebrations
We believe culture plays a large role in what we offer as an organization. We value and celebrate the diverse tapestry of our employees, fostering an environment where everyone feels included and respected.Beyond is committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation, or expression. Our mission is to remove exclusivity and barriers and encourage new thinking and perceptions, in a space of belonging. It is not about race, gender, or age, it is about people. Without our people being their most creative and innovative selves, we are nothing.
