Bluestatedigital

Bluestatedigital

Contract Program Manager (Evergreen)

NY, DC, Oakland

Sponsorship not specified$60k-$90kDetected 86 days ago
UX ResearchWireframingBusiness DevelopmentWordPressResearchCommunication

About the role

  • Interested in joining Blue State's Media Team?
  • Submit your application here to ensure you're first in line for future opportunities.
  • Please note: this is an "evergreen" job post (i.e. not an active job post), but your expression of interest matters to us.

Responsibilities

  • Manage budgets and timelines for website redesigns and other digital projects, including defining scopes and gathering estimates across disciplines.
  • Write and maintain requirements, ensuring that all functionality, user flows, and edge cases are understood by stakeholders.
  • Help create sprint plans and release schedules.
  • Develop testing and measurement plans in coordination with strategists and analysts.
  • Manage multiple website build projects simultaneously and understand project priorities in the context of agency and client expectations
  • Manage stakeholder feedback, evaluating all proposed features against the product scope and ensuring that bugs are reported and prioritized correctly.
  • Support the greater Business Development team with the scoping of new client product engagements.
  • Lead project status meetings and updates with internal teams and clients.
  • Ability to use wireframes to communicate recommendations to design teams.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in program management or similar roles such as product management or technical project management.
  • Experience with CMS-driven websites, such as those built on WordPress.

Compensation

  • The salary range for this position is $60-$90 per hour; compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Benefits

  • Manage operational aspects of projects, including communication of client needs to team and vice versa as well as resourcing and financial health tracking.

Company info

  • You'll be a part of our global website development practice that consists of designers, developers, strategists, and other creative folks.
  • We're veterans of presidential campaigns, agencies, nonprofits, and the tech world who want our work to matter, are passionate about technology, and aim to continually improve the work we do.
  • We collaborate very closely remotely and, optionally, from our offices in New York, DC, and London.
  • Some things we're looking for
  • Experience with CMS-driven websites, such as those built on WordPress. You will not architect a WordPress site yourself, but you help steer designers and engineers in directions that are feasible and align with client goals.
  • Familiarity with and interest in marketing platforms, including CRMs, and data and personalization technology used by organizations to engage and mobilize their supporters.
  • Willingness to wear multiple hats and get into the weeds in order to reach a milestone, whether that means logging into the CMS to fix content, sketching a quick feature to clarify a proposal, or having a difficult conversation with a vendor.
  • Cognizance of the overall AI landscape and the ability to evaluate AI outputs critically.
  • Excellent communication skills. Ability to interact with engineers, designers, and business stakeholders alike.
  • Strong collaborator and relationship builder. Colleagues know they can come to you for help working through delicate issues or opportunities.
  • Empathy, positivity, respect, and the ability to be a role model at Blue State.
  • At Blue State, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have.
  • We encourage those from underrepresented communities - women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between - to apply.
  • Even if you don't think your current skill set checks every box below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.
  • Blue State is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible application and interview process.
  • If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact us at recruiting@bluestate.co with the subject line: Accommodation Request to get started.
  • Your privacy is important to us.
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