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Senior Account Director/Project Manager  

You love a challenge and consider yourself organized? You love making clients happy, but aren't shy to make a confident argument to help win new business, deliver great work, and protect your teammates?  

You work well with others and have the autonomy to lead projects within an organization? Evolving Web is seeking a professional, organized, detailed-oriented, enthusiastic account director/project manager!  

As a rapidly growing web agency, our projects include web strategy, design, and development services. As a Project Manager, you'll ensure good communication with our clients, management of schedules and deliverables, and also management of our internal project team.   

Main tasks:

* Communicate with and manage a variety of client projects simultaneously
* Negotiate with small non-profits and Fortune 500 enterprises, for projects from $5,000 to $500,000
* Assist during all parts of the sales cycle, including write RFPs
* Plan project schedule and budgets
* Advise clients on web design and development best practices
* Act as a client representative to the dev team
* Create issues for developers and track the status of these issues through completion
* Become an expert in Drupal and web development best practices
* Provide guidance during Information Architecture, UI, development, content import, and QA stages of projects
* Assist with the various marketing and sales initiatives for Evolving Web  

Additional tasks

* Publish blog posts and presentations that communicate your expertise
* Assist with managing Evolving Web's operations, including ongoing documentation, time tracking, scheduling, and other aspects of team communications
* Manage billing and profitability of projects
* Analyse performance of employees you supervise
* Be proactive and flexible in identifying and carrying out other responsibilities, as our company's needs evolve
* Organizing meetings  

Critical Qualifications/Competencies:

* Bachelor's degree 
* At least 3 years of working in a technology-related environment
* At least 3 years project management experience
* Good understanding of content management systems, HTML5, CSS, web deployment processes 
* Excellent spoken and written English and French
* Experience working in JIRA, Redmine, Trello, or similar tracking tools
* Strong sense of organization
* Strong project management and business analytical skills
* Strong team player, problem-solving and leadership skills
* Good UX Design understanding to be able to easily see what makes - or not - a good UX
* Able to adapt to various situations quickly