Merge Storytelling and Technology
MERGE promotes health, wealth and happiness in the world by merging storytelling with technology and offers marketing and technology clients full-service capabilities including strategy, creative communications, experience engineering, performance marketing, media and digital platform development. MERGE has enduring client partnerships with American Express, T-Mobile, LG, Subway, Kate Spade NY, Coach, The North Face, Meta, Adobe, BlueCross BlueShield, Abbott, Astellas, Supernus, CSL, GE Healthcare, Broward Health, Indiana University Health, Nationwide and Morgan Stanley. With 800 employees across offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, Montreal, New York City and Los Angeles, MERGE uses a talent-to-task process that enables clients to think higher and feel deeper about their customers. For more information, visit mergeworld.com.
Promote Health, Wealth & Happiness
We are committed to promoting health, wealth, and happiness in the world by partnering with purpose-driven clients in purpose-driven industries such as healthcare, financial services, and consumer products. Our deep vertical expertise and category insights stem from decade-long partnerships with our top clients.
Emerge to the Top of Your Career
At MERGE, we strive to create a superior work experience where talented and ambitious people grow. An experience that encourages people to think higher and feel deeper. An experience where people engage minds and hearts to do the best work of their careers.
As our Sr. Digital Project Manager, you will…
Manage and deliver our projects within quality standards as well as time and budget requirements. Ultimately, this role proves to be essential to the success of any digital project.
Be Accountable and Responsible
- Be the hub of digital projects. The digital PM owns the management of all aspects of the project including management of estimates, scopes, timelines, team communication, budget, and team resourcing.
- Lead a range of engagement types that span research and UX strategy, design, and development. Projects may involve the design and development of custom applications and/or enterprise marketing technology platforms (e.g. Sitecore, Adobe, Salesforce, and others)
- Lead the MERGE team by bringing organization and structure to the delivery approach, plan, and meeting execution.
- Identify project risks, issues, and needs and know when to loop in the appropriate team members from various disciplines - client services, strategy, experience design, digital design, business analysis, technology, QA
- Partner with Client Services to proactively monitor and manage project scope (e.g. deliverables, priorities, timeline, hours, etc.) Escalate risks, issues, and concerns promptly to allow for proactive mitigation.
- Partner with Client Services to manage client communications, reviews, and feedback
- Be a strong facilitator in planning and leading regular project scrums and project working sessions
- Partner with the resource management team to coordinate team resources and task assignments based on deliverables and project plan
- Assist with contingency planning, and problem resolution, and recommend solutions to maintain schedules, budgets, and quality deliverables
- Manage approved staff plans based on the scope
- Present project parameters and checkpoints to set client expectations for assigned projects and programs ensuring timely delivery of quality deliverables
- Deliver detailed progress reports, financials, and forecasts on assigned digital projects to the internal team and Client Service as requested
- Tracking changes in scope, actual hours against a project plan, and making appropriate changes to deliver projects and programs on time and within budget
- Keep the Department Director aware of progress – raising concerns as quickly as possible
Leadership & Communication
- Ability to plan and facilitate effective meetings
- Ability to facilitate project estimation and planning, collaborating with key discipline leads for input
- Ability to facilitate and manage personalities
- Ability to collaborate build teamwork and manage conflict
- Confronts issues openly and quickly
- Effectively communicates relevant project/practice information to superiors and peers across all departments
- Shows ownership of the agency process and enforces the use of the process with the team
- Helps to determine new, creative ways to employ teams on projects and distribute responsibilities
- Works across departments to share lessons learned and best practices
- Continually seeks internal efficiencies to increase client satisfaction and help deepen client relationships
- Easily recognizes areas for internal improvement and develops plans for Implementation.
These are the qualifications we’re looking for
- 6 years of experience working in the development of large-scale websites, microsites, landing pages, and platforms with a strong understanding of the development lifecycle
- Proficiency of CMS Solutions, preferably, Sitecore, AEM, etc.
- Experience using both Waterfall and Agile methodologies
- An understanding of the marketing technology platforms (e.g. content management systems, digital experience platforms) as well as custom application development
- Experience managing multi-tier software development projects is a big plus.
- Strong Project Management skills - the ability to monitor and report on project status, budgets, schedules, and resource management
- Understanding of IA and user experience best practices
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At MERGE, we’re committed to fostering an environment where our team members can thrive in both their careers and personal lives, ensuring they feel supported and empowered to succeed.
MERGE is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 410K, Lifestyle Spending Account, Employer Paid Life & Disability Insurance, Flexible Time off & Holidays plus many other benefits and rewards.
MERGE believes in transparency and equity. In accordance with state regulations, we’re proud to include salary ranges in our job postings to ensure fair compensation practices.
The salary range for this role is $80,000 - $90,000 based on the individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.
Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.
And here’s how we live our values at MERGE
- Ability. Mastering our craft
- Agility. Delivering with a growth mindset
- Humility. Collaborating for shared success
MERGE is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer
MERGE welcomes and celebrates diversity regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status or people with abilities. We believe that the more diverse we are, the more creative our work will be!
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Merge let’s you hold and interact with digital 3D objects and travel anywhere virtually, enabling a fun and engaging new way to experience the world. #mergecube
