Sr. Integrated Project Manager

Primary Responsibilities

You are responsible for communicating project status to the team, including project meeting minutes and updates, performance-to-project plan, project risks and other critical details and data as warranted

You will have an active role in managing team’s workload ensuring all projects are on task and on time

You will coordinate scheduling and planning; communicating across all levels inclusive of the project team, stakeholders and external vendors

You will organize, coordinate and manage workshop production, including venue selection, logistics, planning, catering, back-of-house organization and documentation supervision

You have the ability to manage multiple projects at one time, and will coordinate research activities, including logistics, scheduling, planning and documentation coordination

You will bridge design and business disciplines, evaluating and gauging appropriate risks and future opportunities

You will track financials and update reports in collaboration with Design Operations, with the ability to see red flags or future bandwidth issues and be able to solve / adjust workstreams

You will lead coordination with Resource Manager for assigning team members to projects

You will have an understanding and awareness of the entire portfolio of projects, with some businesses being higher priority than others

Qualifications 

Bachelor’s degree required

5 - 10 years of project management experience

SCRUM certification

Previous experience working in a creative / design environment highly preferred

Project management training, excellent planning and project management skills desirable

Project management certification a plus but not required

Strong experience using Microsoft Project required

Excellent written and verbal skills

Strong analytical aptitude with creative abilities and problem solving skills

Ability to facilitate the generation of detailed and accurate, risk-adjusted project plans and track against them Above all else

Friendly, thoughtful and perpetually curious

Humble to your core with a sharp emotional intelligence

Able to build trust, even when communicating a dissenting point of view