Senior Project Manager

The Position 

We seek another highly motivated Senior Project Manager to add to our core team who will be responsible for stewarding large, complex projects to success. The right candidate collaborates, communicates, and leads effectively with stakeholders, including our team, extended partners, and clients with a consultative approach. The position will require technical knowledge of the web and user-centered design with an eagerness to learn more as you play a crucial role in software development projects. You will lead and coordinate client and internal communication, schedules, and expectations across multiple projects. Our project managers own the success of each project, which includes managing budgets, tracking project progress, and proactively mitigating risks. Expect to be deeply immersed in projects, not merely reporting on them. You will regularly assign tasks, test user experience/functionality, and investigate issues across multiple projects in a given day. You love to streamline processes from a process improvement lens to ensure projects are run effectively and efficiently. You enjoy planning and organization and are easily excited by spreadsheets and calendars or see them as key tools in your tool belt. You are a strong communicator, curious problem-solver, and motivated self-starter who seeks to understand the details rather than reciting or routing communication of various stakeholders. You will collaborate with a team across the U.S. and South America. You are eager to incorporate AI-powered tools into your workflow to increase efficiency, improve communication, and reduce manual overhead across project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide business-minded project management that considers team staffing and account management needs
• Provide mentorship and coaching to other project managers
• Coordinate tasks and deliverables with internal project teams
• Communicate with the client as their main point of contact, setting expectations along the way.
• Contribute to Savas by working on internal initiatives, and aiding internal teams with estimates, proposals and presentations.

About You

You are a motivated, results-oriented, self-starter who will work directly with cross-functional teams to lead the planning, execution, and delivery of digital projects. The right candidate has the experience to know what makes projects succeed or fail, and the energy and interest to leverage their experience and knowledge to the betterment of their team. 

You are

• experienced with project monitoring, management, and evaluation
• able to balance the needs of the business, our team, and the client on a project
• masterful at leading client discussions on topics for which you are not an expert
• interested in mentoring and coaching others 
• constantly seeking efficient ways to work
• curious about and willing to adopt AI tools that streamline project management workflows
• a collaborator who loves working with other people

You have

• a desire to help shape and improve processes
• a consultative and detail-oriented approach
• excellent negotiation and conflict management skills
• strong time management and organizational skills
• technical experience in an agency environment
• experience with or strong interest in product management — defining product strategy, shaping roadmaps, and growing this discipline within an agency setting
• pride in the quality of your work
• the ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment

You are a strong communicator and collaborator who

• has excellent verbal and writing skills
• has experience working with and managing client expectations
• values professionalism and making a good impression
• drives difficult or complex discussions with clients and facilitates solutions

You are comfortable

• working with distributed team members and clients
• developing relationships across internal and client teams
• having technical conversations with clients

Bonus points for

• experience working in an agile environment
• account management or other business-level account growth experience
• hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g. for task management, documentation, client communication, or QA)
• product management experience, including defining product vision, managing backlogs, and collaborating with engineering on product-oriented engagements