Company Overview:
Xivic builds innovations on behalf of brands and established enterprises. Sometimes that innovation is a business strategy and client partnerships to achieve their digital marketing goals by driving brand awareness, engagement and ultimately revenue. In other cases we collaborate in shaping digital platforms and optimizing them, delivering scalable architecture. 

We're constantly innovating in the fields of data science, experience design, search, performance marketing, and technology. Always on the lookout for new strategies that can deliver an even greater return to our clients, while working smarter, not harder.

As Technical Project Manager, you'll handle the development and implementation process of our products and services. Coordinating the departmental or cross-functional teams, our TPMs are the ones who focus on delivering new or upgrading existing products.

Do you get a thrill out of problem-solving and helping businesses make the most of Paid Search and Display advertising? If yes, then Xivic will make you happy to come to work everyday.

Primary Focus:

Monitors the project from initiation through delivery including planning and directing schedules while monitoring budget/spending. Organizes cross-functional activities, ensuring completion of the project i.e. product on schedule and within budget constraints.

Responsibilities:

• Daily management and coordination of all technical and logistical aspects of a project including timelines, risks, risk mitigation strategies, action items and change requests

• Explore, adapt and master our partner tools on both user and technical sides

• Work with the Digital Strategists to define the appropriate technical solution to deliver an exceptional customer experience given the client’s resources and environment

• Hold regular meeting with customer, communicate status, manage expectations

• Hunting for innovative solutions, you identify new, interesting vendors to add to our partner ecosystem, and participate in industry events

• Define planning and deadlines in collaboration with different team members (digital strategist, designers, developers, ...)

• You manage tool set up, document the project, train users, and provide customer support if needed. Successful delivery of the project is your goal

• Ensure projects are being completed on time and the quality of work is consistent with client expectations

• Resolves any issues and solve problems throughout the project lifecycle, including the design, development and quality assurance testing phases

• Coordinates all projects with staff and vendors, including those offshore.  

• Ensures that all project items have been checked and are correct before leaving, including project plans, activeCollab tickets & tasks, resource assignments, etc

• Work closely with internal product owners to ensure customer require product requirements are documented and delivered on schedule

• Provide regular status updates, manage project schedule, maintain and drive closure of action registers, track content forecast and delivery

Minimum Requirements:

• 2-3 years of direct digital project management experience with an digital solutions provider and/or technology company

• Must be familiar and have prior experiencing in personally managing Wordpress, custom CMS, e-Commerce websites, as well as iOS and Android mobile applications

• Forward thinking and highly organized

• Must be able to interact and communicate with people at all levels in the organization

• High-level ability to multi-task, including managing multiple projects at the same time

• Detail-oriented with strong documentation skills

Nice-to-haves, but not needed:

• CPM certification

• Prior UX design or technical programming

• Experience working with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Flash, In Design, etc.)

• Published case studies

• Decks on SlideShare

• Thought leadership blog posts

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications or general business

What we offer:

• Fruits and snacks stocked kitchen
• Adjustable standing (or sitting) desks
• Double monitors for sweet panoramic backgrounds
• A casual, fun, relaxed, and entertaining open office
• Professional development opportunities
• Health and Dental insurance
• 401K
• Paid Time Off

You are:

• Self-reliant (You say, “I got this”)
• Ambitious (You take things to 11)
• Resourceful (You do more with less)
• Creative (You dream up concepts whose explanation begin with “What if we”)
• Passionate (You give a crap about what you do)
• Resilient (You get back up after you get knocked down)
• Team Player (You look for ways to help the people around you)

You have:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong active-listening skills
• Strong management skills, setting expectations that are always met
• A relentless desire to use all the resources at your fingertips to resolve challenges
• Presentation and interpersonal skills, with the ability to motivate and drive collaboration with other departments and stakeholders
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, working toward shared goals and deadlines