Project Manager

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Company: DEG
Location: Overland Park, KS 66210

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Benefits
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  • Multiple health plan options, including independent insurance and pre-tax FSAs
  • Life insurance, AD&D, and short- and long-term disability with company-paid premium
  • Ample paid time off, holidays, and flex time
  • Generous full paid leave for new parents, including parental, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave and assistance
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company-sponsored matching program
  • Bonus plans based on company and individual performance
Full Job Description

Overview

DEG is seeking a Project Manager to plan, initiate, implement and manage web-based projects in an agile environment. The Project Manager will monitor progress to assure deadlines, standards, and cost targets are met. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly proficient professional to cultivate business relationships and create and streamline procedures and processes.

DEG team members look to Project Managers for direction and leadership. That is kind of a cool spot to sit. Considered the best job in the company by those who enjoy working with multiple teams on a daily basis, including technical teams, business teams, and creative teams, as well as clients and their teams. Successful Project Managers will manage the balancing act to figure out how to best serve our customers as well as best serve DEG, all while achieving profitable delivery.

Our highly entrepreneurial, collaborative, and dynamic environment is the perfect place for smart, motivated people to make an impact. With competitive benefits and a dedication to work-life balance, DEG has been named one of the best places to work in the country.


Responsibilities

The Project Manager is responsible for guiding multiple projects through all phases of the project lifecycle and delivering projects on time and within budget. This includes the following responsibilities:
  • Overall discovery, planning and execution of projects, including setting deadlines at each stage and critical outputs delivery.
  • Develop or update project plans such as project objectives, proposals, estimates, technologies, specifications, and staffing resources.
  • Manage projects to ensure adherence to timeline, budget, schedule, and scope while paying close attention to quality, detail, and customer satisfaction.
  • Ensure high quality deliverables are met from requirements definition through testing and deployment.
  • Prepare project status reports and weekly status updates monitoring hours on projects measuring around projects through completion.
  • Work with Project Coordinators and define project teams.
  • Establish and execute a project communication plan.
  • Create processes that improve project management and documentation efficiency, accuracy and reliability.
  • Provide team leadership to cross-functional teams.
  • Experience managing client facing projects based on a statement of work.
  • Experience in managing competing priorities and customer expectations.


Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 2 – 5 years working as a Project Manager, preferably in a digital environment
  • Proven understanding of standard project methodologies
  • Proven ability to deliver low to moderate risk projects, with demonstrable skills that show the ability to manage projects of moderate levels of risk and complexity
  • Excellent written and oral communication, interpersonal communication skills, time management, with a proven ability to do this at a management level internally and externally
  • Experience creating and managing project timelines and monitoring budgets
  • Experience working with clients and within scopes of work
  • Experience in managing projects in at least one of the following platforms preferred: Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Magento, Sitecore


Benefits

  • Multiple health plan options, including independent insurance and pre-tax FSAs
  • Life insurance, AD&D, and short- and long-term disability with company-paid premium
  • Ample paid time off, holidays, and flex time
  • Generous full paid leave for new parents, including parental, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave and assistance
  • Military leave for active duty service members deployed to full-time service
  • Disaster leave in the event of a natural disaster
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company-sponsored matching program
  • Bonus plans based on company and individual performance
  • Culture Club social events each year
  • Free refreshments, including soda, juice, sparkling water, and Roasterie hot and nitro cold brew coffee in our company coffeehouse, as well as free on-tap and bottle beer for our weekly Beer:30

DEG, Linked by Isobar is an equal-opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.


About DEG

Digital Evolution Group (DEG) was founded in 1999 as a small web development firm in Kansas City. Since then, we’ve grown to become DEG, Linked by Isobar, a member of the Dentsu Aegis Network and global full-service digital experience agency crafting solutions that help clients meet their business objectives. While other shops are now working to become digital, we were born here.

Digital is in our DNA. And our associates are always evolving and finding new ways to collaborate together to solve our clients’ toughest challenges. After all, at DEG the best idea wins—no matter where it comes from or who thought of it.

Here, you can grow and pursue your passions, prioritize your family, contribute to your community, and actively travel. Our “work hard, play hard” mentality provides everyone with a fun, casual work environment that embraces new and better ways to do things, and new and better things to do for our clients.

The question you must now ask is: Are you ready to evolve?