Senior Project Manager

Americaneagle.com; Illinois; On-site; USD 75,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous compensation

Comprehensive benefits package

Energetic work environment

Opportunities for skill development

Good work-life balance

Job summary

A leading web design agency is looking for a Senior Project Manager to oversee project success through the development lifecycle. This role involves acting as a primary liaison between the agency's team and clients, managing budgets, timelines, and ensuring quality deliverables. The ideal candidate is self-motivated, can multitask effectively, and has experience with project management tools. A competitive salary ranging from $75,000 to $130,000, along with a comprehensive benefits package, is offered.

Qualifications

• Self-motivated and capable of managing tasks independently.
• Strong ability to meet internal and client deadlines.
• Experience with project management tools is a plus.
• Able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience with CMS or e-commerce platforms is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Track and measure project status.
• Manage communication with clients.
• Ensure quality deliverables are produced.
• Manage project budget, scope, and backlog.
• Manage project risks, blockers, and escalations.
• Act as a liaison between clients and the development team.

Skills

Self-motivated

Ability to meet deadlines

Multi-tasking

Communication

Initiative

Tools

Jira

Confluence

CMS

Sitefinity

WordPress

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 helping customers grow and achieve success in the digital 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 one of 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 senior project manager is assigned to lead a project at the time of a signed contract and 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 partnership we 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 incredible team 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 successful Americaneagle.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 status reports, collaborating with the team, reviewing design prototypes, reviewing completed functionality and more.

Responsibilities

• Track and measure project status
• Manage communication with our clients
• Ensure quality deliverables are produced
• Manage the project budget, scope and backlog
• Manage project risks, blockers and escalations
• Act as a liaison between our clients and development team
• Participate in kickoff, requirement, status, demo and training meetings with clients

Requirements

• Self‑motivated
• Ability to meet internal and client deadlines
• Ability to multi‑task and work on multiple projects at one time
• Experience with project management tools like Jira and Confluence is a plus
• Able to manage individual workload, take initiative and assume responsibility for tasks
• Experience with CMS or ecommerce platforms like Sitefinity, 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 do all 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, click here!