Digital Project Manager

Artscience; Toronto; Remote; CAD 65,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic agency as a Digital Project Manager, where you will be the driving force behind exciting projects. This role offers the unique opportunity to blend creativity with technology, ensuring project excellence from start to finish. You'll manage diverse teams, maintain strong client relationships, and navigate challenges with strategic insight. As part of a supportive and collaborative culture, your contributions will directly impact the agency's growth and success. If you're passionate about project management and thrive in a creative environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you to shine and make a difference.

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefits

Two weeks vacation

Six personal days

Flexible remote work

Additional time off near long weekends

Camaraderie and team support

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing project life cycles across various streams.
• Strong ability to build client relationships and manage expectations.

Responsibilities

• Lead project management from inception to completion ensuring excellence.
• Manage project schedules, resources, and client communications effectively.

Skills

Project Management

Client Relationship Management

Budget Management

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Project Management Certification

Tools

Project Management Software

Collaboration Tools

Job description

We are looking for a Digital Project Manager (Web/Campaign) to join our dynamic agency and act as the nucleus of projects to ensure excellence along a project’s journey.

Inclusivity and Accessibility

Art & Science is an inclusive, diverse and accessible work environment. We strongly encourage applications from women, racialized people, Indigenous peoples, people from gender-diverse and sexually diverse communities, people with disabilities (visible or non-visible), people of different religious backgrounds, people with family caregiving responsibilities and/or people with intersectional identities.

Who we are

Art & Science is a full-service marketing agency with pillars in strategy, digital marketing, brand & communication and experiential marketing campaigns. With a ten-year, award-winning history working with some of the biggest brands in Canada, we continue to experience growth and success. Art & Science prides itself on blending creative with technology to produce incredible results for our clients. At Art & Science, we are not only committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion but we walk the talk and have built a strong culture based on those values.

What You Will Do

• Manage projects; once a client has been onboarded, you will lead the project from its inception through its execution and ultimate completion. Following your initial conversation with a client where you establish the scope of work for web or brand projects, you will create and follow a project charter in which you will identify key dependencies and potential risks associated. You will use this to form the project plan and determine the optimal delivery approach according to the strengths of your chosen team members. To ensure deliverables are being met, you will be entrusted to know your projects inside out by keeping an eye on the capacities of each team member and making sure they have the necessary resources to meet their outcomes. In addition, you have a solid understanding of how to optimally split up the budget and send off invoices based on phases and sprints when allocating the project finances and resources.
• Champion day-to-day management of tasks and inbound requests; since you will be the glue between multiple moving components, the main priority for you in this regard is to ensure project schedules are on track and that all tasks are completed with excellence in order to meet project milestones. This means that you will be leading check-in meetings to get updated on what each project member is actively working on, what resources they require to be successful in their contributions and overall ensuring that planned activities are being executed successfully. Additionally, you will facilitate their success by anticipating potential upcoming challenges and proposing solutions to remove barriers along the way. As part of your day-to-day project management, you will manage status reports, ensure the completion of timesheets amongst internal project members and maintain overall project hygiene by upholding clean and orderly documentation.
• Build and uphold strong client relationships; since you will be a constant to our clients throughout their engagement, you will ideally establish a level of comfort with them in the event that more flexibility needs to be applied. You will do this by providing them reassurance that a project is progressing as planned according to the established roadmap and proactively ensuring the client is up to date if readjustments need to be made or if a major change occurs. It is therefore critical for you to understand the perspectives of client services in order to think strategically in navigating these conversations. Because you will have quickly and effectively established meaningful trust with a client, they have confidence in your reliability during an engagement and are willing to contact our agency for future projects.
• Own resourcing requirements for a project; you will be responsible for ensuring that cross-functional team members on a project are aligned with a project’s expectations and all resource requirements are being met. While you will not be in charge of casting on a project, you will be briefing your internal project members on timelines and deliverables according to the project brief shared with you.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (such as Account Managers, Digital Marketing Managers, Designers, SEO Managers, and Developers) acting as a project point person to ensure flawless execution of key programs.

About you

• You’re an experienced project manager; at this point in your career, you’ve likely worked for a number of organizations where you’ve successfully managed the project life cycles in a range of streams and timelines such as digital and campaign work, and you can probably put together a charter in your sleep. You’re enthusiastic about helping your colleagues understand the tactical aspects of an engagement, the roadmaps and their individual impact.
• You’re determined but flexible; you’re an ambitious individual who likes to get the job done the right way. You care about processes but are flexible enough to alter them according to stakeholder needs and are resilient, coming back stronger if an initial project doesn’t go as planned. As a highly collaborative person, you have no problem reaching out to others for help which is why you take pride in getting to know all your stakeholders and expanding your network in the organization.
• You’re a powerful storyteller; you have a solid aptitude for coherently turning complex matters into concise, digestible information for clients and stakeholders and impressing everyone in the process with your ideas and solutions. Your impeccable interpersonal skills allow you to easily hold a difficult discussion because it doesn't come across as a confrontation but as a conversation. You’re able to steward the client relationship through empathy in understanding their challenges but also able to sway them in the right direction.
• You’re an optimist under the cloak of realism; when it comes to getting the impossible done, you’re strategic in communicating delivery. You’re an expert in articulating how a project will be delivered, identifying where the gaps lie and what controls are needed to close them. You’re confident in your authority over a project lifecycle and can empathize with a client but still keep them reassured that you’re achieving business goals.
• You are a team player; you love sharing your successes (and failures) with other team members and discussing how to one-up your past successes.

Why work with us

Being a part of Art & Science allows you to help shape the future of an agency that is just coming into its own. We work in an agency fueled by intelligent, lively individuals in a culture of support and collaboration.

As Project Manager, you’ll have the opportunity to affect an enormous amount of change and be significantly responsible for new and lasting relationships with our clients. You will have the opportunity to autonomously manage exciting projects, work alongside our President and executives which will allow you to see the success of your impact come to fruition. If you love being part of the successful life cycle of the project management experience, leading a team to victory and flourishing in dynamic, creative environments, we’re just an application away.

In addition to your salary of $65,000 - $70,000 CAD, with a comprehensive health benefits plan, two-weeks vacation, six personal days and additional time off near long weekends and winter holidays.

We currently operate remotely which allows flexibility in where you work, with preference of candidates in the Eastern time zone, as our team is primarily located in Ontario. You will have the opportunity to work on some exciting accounts, learn and grow yourself while shaping the minds of junior team members. Our team is one with a strong sense of camaraderie, where everyone wants to see one another succeed. If this piques your interest, we look forward to receiving your application.

How to apply

Interested candidates are asked to fill out the job application form for the Project Manager role in our job portal.

Accommodation

We are a respectful workplace committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce. We are an equal opportunity employer and believe in fostering an inclusive work environment where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process.