Job title: Senior Project Manager
Department: Project Manager
Manager: Program Manager
Position Summary:
We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead a portfolio of client relationships and the projects underneath them, and to help set the standard for what great delivery looks like here. We move fast, we hold a high bar, and we want someone who is excited by both.
Key Responsibilities
You will own a portfolio of client work from kickoff through launch and beyond. You are the person clients trust, and the person your team relies on to keep things moving.
In practice, that means:
Owning the client relationship. You are the steady, clear, human point of contact. You answer the hard questions, keep everyone pointed at the same goal, and ensure clients know they are in good hands.
Driving the work forward. You are not waiting on a status update to learn where things stand. You already know, and you are already clearing whatever is in the way.
Carrying real accountability for budget, burn, and margin. Delivery discipline is not the dry part of this job. It is how you protect both the client's investment and ours, and you take it seriously.
Leading cross-functional teams of designers and developers, working with AI assisted delivery, and adapting your plans, estimates, and timelines as that way of working evolves.
Keeping accounts healthy and growing. You notice where we could do more for a client and you raise it. This is not a sales role and there is no quota, but the best people in this seat spot those opportunities and surface them naturally.
Setting the standard. As a senior member of the team, you help shape how we work and lift the people around you, mostly by example.
Skills & Qualifications:
A senior agency operator who has done this before and stays calm when things get hard. Clients believe you, and your team wants to work with you.
An exceptional communicator who can make complicated things clear, whether you are talking to a developer, a designer, or a client's CEO.
Genuinely excited about AI and what it is doing to this work. You have shown real initiative here: you have taught yourself, learned from the people around you, and kept up with a space that changes month to month. We are not going to hand you a list of tools to memorize, because by the time you start that list will have changed. We need someone who keeps pace.
Deeply organized and proactive, able to hold many moving pieces and many stakeholders across a fully remote team without letting anything slip.
A genuine problem solver who sees risk coming and handles it before it becomes a problem, and who can de-escalate a tense moment for the people around them.
The salary range for this position is $90,000 to $120,000 per year, depending on experience.
What we offer:
Healthy work/life balance
A creative environment to do the best work of your career
An amazing team of developers, designers, marketers, and project managers.
Paid Parental Leave
Paid vacation and sick time off
Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
Retirement plan with company matching
About Happy Cog:
Happy Cog is a growing interactive agency of 70+ people, all working 100% remotely.
We design, develop, and market websites and mobile apps for a wide variety of clients -- everyone from small startups, to Fortune 100s. Projects we've recently worked on have included online ordering platforms for restaurants, custom content management systems for law firms, an economic mobility research platform, and many more.
We are looking for great people to join our team, so if you don't check all the boxes, but believe you can do the job, reach out and tell us why – your experience might be just what we're looking for!
Happy Cog is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, protected veteran status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability.
We are also proud to have been on the Inc 5000 list of America's fastest growing companies for 7 years in a row! For more information go to our website: https://www.happycog.com.
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