Project Manager, Fastr
Digital experience platform
Job no longer available
Digital experience platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help enterprise brands move at the speed of change.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience managing web development projects, with a focus on ecommerce projects
- Strong understanding of Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Experience planning and executing ecommerce projects in a leadership role
- Technical background and understanding of code
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and meet deadlines
- Proficiency in project management tools and software, such as JIRA or Asana
- Familiarity with design and development processes
- Experience working with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers, and quality assurance
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Strong self-management practices with attention to detail
Desirable
- Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g. project management, business, computer science)
- PMP certification (or similar)
- Strong understanding of ecommerce platforms and technologies like BigCommerce, including common integrations and custom development work
- Ability to coach and develop junior team members
What the job involves
- Developing an open relationship between the agency and clients
- Communicating effectively with clients throughout the whole project life cycle, from initiation to closure
- Leading the planning and execution of ecommerce projects from start to finish, including scope definition, timeline development, resource allocation, and budget management
- Developing innovative and creative recommendations and proposals for projects alongside the development team
- Providing on-going support to ad hoc client requests. This includes, but is not limited to, responding to client emails in a timely and professional manner, understanding client milestones and dependencies to help manage client expectations
- Uncovering customer needs and proactively recommending solutions to solve short-term and long-term business problems
- Contributing to internal projects, planning discussions, and process improvement. Bring your experience and ideas to the table!
- Developing and maintaining project documents, including project plans, gantt charts, budgets, and status reports
- Striving to always learn from completed projects by organizing and drafting post-mortems
- Working with the sales team and clients to create support plans for growing the business and maintaining long-term client relationships
- Identifying and managing risks and issues that may impact project delivery
- Staying up-to-date on industry trends and best practices, and applying this knowledge to improve project delivery processes and outcomes
- Ability to manage customer expectations
Our take
Digital experiences are vital to any modern business, but creating great ones can be challenging. Fastr, formerly known as Zmags, solves this problem by making it easier and faster to build engaging digital experiences at scale.
Fastr's product suite includes subscriptions management, payments and digital catalogs, as well as AI-powered CRO and AI-native DXP. Users can leverage this suite to produce sitewide experiences in a fraction of the time, and without needing to code.
Experiences such as those powered by Fastr have been proven to increase customer loyalty and revenue, which is a big draw for the company. To this day, it continues to consolidate its success whilst remaining agile and capitalising on the near-constant need for new solutions in the booming eCommerce sector.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2012
$6m
EARLY VC
Jan 2012
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $13m
Company benefits
- Generous Flexible PTO Plan + 13 paid holidays
- Flexible work hours and location
- Your birthday off!
- Competitive benefits plans and options
- T-accessible office in the beautiful and lively Boston seaport
- A collaborative and fun culture
Company HQ
Fort Point Channel Landmark District, Boston, MA
Leadership
John Murdock
(CEO)Previously Advisor at KANDER, CRO then CEO at Centage, VP of Sales at Kaspersky Lab and Senior Director of Worldwide Sales at Juniper Networks.
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