Job Description

Dog and Pony Studios is an integrated creative and digital agency for B2B brands. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, we are a hybrid agency with remote teams located across Canada, South America and Europe. For 25+ years, our teams have worked at the cutting edge of technology and design, collaborating with some of the highest-impact organizations globally.

We’re seeking a seasoned Digital Project Manager / Digital Producer with expertise in managing enterprise-level websites, including planning new projects from initiation to launch and overseeing product lifecycle support and maintenance for the platforms that we maintain.

Our Digital Project Managers / Digital Producers are responsible for overseeing the execution and delivery of exceptional technology solutions for high-stakes projects and world-renowned organizations. They are expected to coordinate closely with production teams to create and validate accurate workback schedules and to manage timelines throughout the project lifecycle.

Detailed project scope management is required. Identifying, documenting, and estimating overages to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget. The role is both internal and client-facing, and implementing projects will involve collaborating with teams across various disciplines (creative strategy, user-experience design and development). Being part of such a broad and evolving landscape, the Digital Project Manager must possess a deep passion for digital and web technologies, with a continuous learning mindset.

Responsibilities:

• Scoping and Documentation : Requirements gathering, identification, and creation of project documentation.
• Cost Estimates : Gather estimates from relevant resources and teams, create project cost estimates and proposals, and control scope and costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget. This includes resource planning, budgeting and project reconciliation.
• Resource Management : Identify and schedule the right resources for projects across project teams while defining roles and responsibilities in the project.
• Time Management : Timeline planning for new website builds and ongoing support and maintenance, with the ability to ensure timely completion of projects and requests.
• Briefing : Efficiently create clear briefs for tasks, leaving no room for assumption, ambiguity or misinterpretation. Close collaboration with team members and resources to ensure timely and high-quality execution and delivery.
• Quality Management : Meticulous attention to detail when reviewing project deliverables, with the ability to ensure that every project delivery meets the quality needs of the brief, best practices, and client expectations.
• Communications Management : Proactively manage internal and external stakeholder expectations, ensuring clear and articulate communication with team members and clients from different backgrounds and time zones.
• Risk Management : Identify, analyze, and properly respond to project risks, including scope changes, dealing with project unknowns, and production overages.
• Stakeholder Management : Guide and manage stakeholders (clients, partners, internal teams) throughout the entire project lifecycle, ensuring they are aligned with the objectives, scope of work, budget, and timelines.
• Organization : Juggle a varied workload (e.g fast-paced support requests and large-scale web projects) and prioritize time effectively.

Qualifications :

• 3+ years of Project Management experience within a digital agency setting
• Passion for all things digital - driven by technology and innovation
• Strong knowledge of the end-to-end website development process and considerations – from discovery and UX, through to design, development and deployment
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to make informed decisions quickly and under pressure
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of user-experience design patterns
• Knowledge of content architecture planning and modeling
• Hands-on experience with WordPress, Contentful or similar content management systems
• Experience with project management tools such as Asana

Who you are:

• Positive team player
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Proactive and self-motivated
• Problem solver
• Calm under pressure
• Meticulously organized
• Continuous learning mindset

What We Offer:

• Global Team: We hire the best professionals from all over the world. Be part of a highly motivated, multidisciplinary team working on world-class creative.
• Global Clients : Work on interesting and complex projects for some of the biggest companies in the world.
• No Diva Policy : This is a friendly, collegial, client-centric team focused on delivering world-class products.
• Hybrid Office : We’ve been a hybrid agency since 2008. If you’re in Toronto, you will frequently work from our headquarters. You’ll meet your global teammates face-to-face a few times a year when we bring people together.
• Structured Caree r Plan : We recognize great work and reward you accordingly. We provide a structured career path with regular evaluation-based promotions.
• Paid Vacation : 3 weeks annual paid vacation + annual wellness time off through Christmas and New Year.
• Paid Benefits : 100% coverage, without co-pay, with our benefits package.
• Paid Sick Leave: Generous yearly allowance for paid sick days.

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