Senior Project Manager

Americaneagle.com; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Americaneagle.com is a family-owned digital agency delivering web design, development, and marketing solutions across industries including eCommerce, government, healthcare, and more. A senior project manager leads client engagements from contract signing through the SDLC, serving as the primary liaison and ensuring successful delivery and long-term partnerships.

The role offers exposure to diverse industries, cross-functional teams, and a strong emphasis on communication, organization, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 7+ years of digital project management experience.
• Ability to meet internal and client deadlines.
• Ability to multi-task on multiple projects.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence is a plus.
• Experience with CMS or eCommerce platforms (Sitefinity, Sitecore, WordPress, Kentico, BigCommerce) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage project timelines.
• Track and measure project status.
• Communicate with clients via calls, emails, and weekly status reports.
• Ensure quality deliverables.
• Manage project budget, scope, backlog, and change requests.
• Ensure best practices through the project lifecycle.
• Timely completion and archiving of projects.
• Manage risks, blockers, and escalations.
• Liaise between clients and development team.
• Participate in kickoff, requirements, status, demo and training meetings.

Skills

Project management

Client communication

Team coordination

Budget & scope control

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

CMS platforms

WordPress

Sitefinity

Sitecore

Kentico

BigCommerce

Job description

Americaneagle.com is a family-owned web design, development, and digital marketing agency with a passionate belief in the power of technology to positively transform business practices. Our focus is on helping customers grow and achieve success in thedigital space. We cover a variety of different industries, including eCommerce, associations & nonprofits, government, healthcare, sports & entertainment, transportation, and more. The company was recently named by Built in Chicago as oneof the best places to work and to Inc.com's list of 5000 fastest-growing private companies for the past eight years.

An Americaneagle.com seniorproject manager is assigned to lead a project at the time of a signed contractand is responsible for the success of the project through the system development lifecycle. They act as the primary liaison between the Americaneagle.com team and our client. The project manager plays a key role in cementing the long-term partnershipwe seek to establish with all of our clients.

The engagements our project managers lead will vary significantly. This makes the role exciting and rewarding as our project managers are exposed to compelling challenges across different industries, different technologies, and will partner with an incredibleteam across varying skillsets. Our project managers are responsible for managing our project budgets, communicating with our clients, our project timelines, mitigating project risks, blockers and escalations, tracking and measuring project status,managing scope, ensuring we produce quality deliverables, and controlling the work in progress. Communication, teamwork, passion, pride, adaptability, proactivity, ownership, organization, resourcefulness and positivity are all key to being a successfulAmericaneagle.com project manager.

There is no typical day for a project manager as they spend time on different activities such as preparing for kickoff meetings, organizing backlogs, sprint planning, attending daily scrums, taking notes in client meetings, building and automating statusreports, collaborating with the team, reviewing design prototypes, reviewing completed functionality and more.

Responsibilities:

• Manage project timelines
• Track and measure project status
• Manage communication with our clients through status calls, emails, and weekly status reports
• Ensure quality deliverables are produced
• Manage the project budget, scope and backlog, and change request process
• Ensure best practices are followed through project lifecycle
• Timely completion and archiving of projects
• Manage project risks, blockers and escalations
• Act as a liaison between our clients anddevelopment team
• Participate in kickoff, requirement, status,demo and training meetings with clients

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum 7 years experience in digital (senior) project management within a digital agency or corporate environment
• Ability to meet internal and client deadlines
• Ability to multi-task and work on multipleprojects at one time
• Experience with project management tools likeJira and Confluence is a plus
• Able to manage individual workload, takeinitiative and assume responsibility for tasks
• Experience with CMS or eCommerce platforms likeSitefinity, Sitecore, WordPress, Kentico and BigCommerce is a plus

Americaneagle.com provides its employees with an energetic work environment and opportunities to further develop their skills. Our dedication to growing our development team is how we can produce excellent sites and applications for our clients. We doall of this while maintaining a family value focus and pushing for a good work-life balance. We offer a generous compensation and benefits package. The US-based salary range for this full-time position is $75,000-$130,000 per year. Within this range, individual pay is determined by job related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. At Americaneagle.com, we are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package, a positive work environment, company activities and more. To see our benefits and what we have been up to,

Please note that Americaneagle.com will never issue a check, require you to make an advanced payment, or ask you to cash a check on its behalf. If you receive any check in the mail prior to employment, please do not cash the check.

Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, Americaneagle.com is committed to fostering a diverse, multicultural work environment where our employees respect one another and share a commitment to the company's values,mission, and strategies. Americaneagle.com provides equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or maritalstatus.