Senior Digital Project Manager
Job Summary
Job Description
Bounteous is seeking a Senior Digital Project Manager for a hybrid role in McLean, VA. The candidate will lead digital transformation projects, managing scope, timeline, and budget, and ensuring client satisfaction. Responsibilities include promoting information security practices, identifying security risks, and ensuring data protection compliance. The role involves guiding diverse teams, facilitating communication, resolving conflicts, and acting as a key client contact. Experience with project management systems like OpenAir and Jira is required. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of project management experience, preferably with Agile methodologies, and experience delivering large digital projects.
Must have:
- Lead and motivate diverse teams
- Manage project scope, timeline, budget, risks
- On-time, on-budget project delivery
- Proactively monitor and manage scope changes
- Report project status transparently
- Build consensus within project teams
- Communicate effectively (written and verbal)
- Facilitate efficient meetings
- Adjust communication to various audiences
- Foster a collaborative environment
- Resolve conflicts productively
- Act as a key client contact
- Use project management systems (OpenAir, Jira)
- Manage resource forecasts
- Realize business goals with working solutions
- Develop domain expertise
- Work with designers, developers, strategists
- Partner to scope and size new opportunities
- Contribute to internal process development
- Continuous learning of new skills
Good to have:
- BS/BA in a relevant program or equivalent experience
- 1-2 years of Agile experience
- Agency or consulting project management experience
- Exposure to Scrum, Agile, Waterfall
- Managed multiple teams (4-8 people)
- Managed distributed or remote team members
- Experience delivering large digital projects ($1MM+, 9+ months)
- In-depth understanding of digital development process
- Proven organizational skills and attention to detail
- Experience with Confluence/JIRA
- Experience/proficiency in SmartSheets
- Experience with CMS, eCommerce, Google Analytics
- CSM and PMP certifications
- Experience in regulated environments (financial services, pharma, healthcare)
- Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI, CAN-SPAM policies
8 skills required
Job Details
Bounteous is a premier end-to-end digital transformation consultancy dedicated to partnering with ambitious brands to create digital solutions for today’s complex challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. With uncompromising standards for technical and domain expertise, we deliver innovative and strategic solutions in Strategy, Analytics, Digital Engineering, Cloud, Data & AI, Experience Design, and Marketing.
Our Co-Innovation methodology is a unique engagement model designed to align interests and accelerate value creation. Our clients worldwide benefit from the skills and expertise of over 4,000+ expert team members across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA. By partnering with leading technology providers, we craft transformative digital experiences that enhance customer engagement and drive business success.
This is a hybrid role, the candidate must work onsite at the McLean, VA office 3 days per week.
The act of hiring is not simply to up the headcount or to fill a seat quickly. When we hire at Bounteous, it’s to add to our interpersonal dynamics and choose the right person to impact, collaborate, commit, inspire, and grow alongside our tenured teams. Bounteous boasts a long-standing track record of ideating, innovating, and implementing award-winning solutions and driving best-in-class results. Our success starts with hiring the right people, in the right roles, at the right time to strategize, analyze, design, engineer, and market for some of the world’s biggest brands.
Currently, Bounteous is searching for a Senior Digital Project Manager to add to our fast-growing team. Successful candidates have several years of experience in partnering with clients, leading all phases of digital-related projects including vision and scope definition, creative and user experience design, requirements specification and prioritization, iterative development, manual and automated testing, handoff, and delivery. Candidates should be comfortable managing projects of various sizes and complexities independently from inception through completion with competing priorities. You’ll be responsible for guiding prioritization and directing practice area teams throughout the life cycle of various small to large-sized projects.
Information Security Responsibilities
- Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
- Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
- Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
- Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information
Role and Responsibilities:
- Independently lead and motivate diverse teams on various types of projects in a fast-paced environment
- Manage project scope, timeline, budget, issues, risks, dependencies, and deliverable outcomes
- Lead on-time, on-budget delivery of digital projects, following internal processes, resulting in a high degree of client and internal team member satisfaction
- Proactively monitor, report, and manage project scope changes, budget burn, and timeline risk
- Report project status on a weekly basis, providing transparency to the client and Bounteous stakeholders regarding budget, schedule, scope, risks, issues, and dependencies
- Ability to understand a problem and work toward a solution by building consensus within the project team
- Serve as an advocate for the project team, ensuring that they are empowered and have the information needed to successfully create and deliver an excellent end product
- Ability to communicate (written and verbal) effectively and facilitate communication amongst the project teams, client stakeholders, and senior management
- Facilitate efficient meetings including producing detailed agenda, facilitating discussions, and ensuring action items are identified and followed up on
- Ability to adjust how information is communicated to various audiences, who each process information in their own way, have different working styles, and unique personalities
- Foster a collaborative environment within the project team and direct reports (if applicable)
- Ability to resolve conflicts in a mature, productive, and positive manner
- Act as a key client contact and ensure their expectations are met and results are delivered
- Leverage current project management systems, including OpenAir and Jira, to make data-driven decisions and provide reporting as needed
- Manage and maintain resource forecasts for all project team members in OpenAir on a weekly basis
- Work with the clients and product owners to ensure the realization of business goals in working solutions
- Develop domain expertise in the client's business space to drive results
- Ability to easily work with everyone from designers to developers to content strategists, and communicate across all levels of the company
- Partner with Client Service Executives and Business Development to scope, size, and solution new opportunities
- Report to Program Director and work with them to enhance process and efficiency across the Program Delivery competency
- Build strong relationships with client and internal team members to deliver success
- Contribute to the internal development of project management processes, deliverables, and standards
- Continue expansion and development of new skills, techniques, and tools through continuous learning
Preferred Qualifications:
- BS/BA in a relevant program, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of project management experience of progressively increasing responsibility with at least 1-2 years of Agile experience a plus.
- 5+ years of experience working as a consultant or in an agency as a project manager
- Exposure to a wide variety of management techniques including Scrum, Agile, and/or Waterfall
- Worked with multiple teams simultaneously, consisting of 4 to 8 people
- Managed distributed or remote team members
- Experience delivering large digital-related projects ($1MM+, 9+ months)
- In-depth understanding of the digital development process and technologies
- Proven organizational skills and focused attention to detail
- Experience in both Confluence / JIRA or equivalent tools for software development
- Experience/proficiency in SmartSheets a plus
- Experience with CMS platforms (Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal), eCommerce platforms (Magento, Shopify), and Google Analytics a plus
- CSM and PMP certifications are a plus
- Experience working in regulated environments such as financial services, pharmaceutical, healthcare, and experience with policies such as Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI, and/or CAN-SPAM a plus
$95,000 - $115,000 a year
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Bounteous is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Bounteous does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. Bounteous is willing to sponsor eligible candidates for employment visas.
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