Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AKQA, part of WPP, is seeking an experienced Freelance Senior Project Manager with a strong emphasis on digital product delivery. The role involves leading project management for a fast-growing Atlanta-based restaurant brand, ensuring clarity, coordination, and accountability across multiple workstreams to enhance digital experiences.
Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day project management across a complex digital product engagement, ensuring clarity of priorities, timelines, deliverables, and accountability across all workstreams
- Serve as the central point of coordination across a multi-agency team supporting the client, including internal AKQA disciplines (strategy, UX, design, technology) and other agency partners, ensuring alignment and clear communication across all workstreams
- Manage project schedules, milestones, and dependencies with meticulous detail, proactively identifying risks and driving timely resolution
- Oversee scope management and change control, partnering with discipline leads to assess impact and maintain alignment on approved work
- Support resourcing coordination, ensuring the right people are engaged at the right time across the project lifecycle
- Facilitate regular project ceremonies and working sessions, keeping teams aligned and focused on outcomes
- Maintain clear and consistent project documentation including status reports, decision logs, and meeting notes that keep all stakeholders informed and accountable
- Partner with the client to manage expectations, communicate progress, and navigate complexity with composure and clarity
- Ensure delivery processes align with agile, waterfall, or hybrid methodologies as required by the engagement
- Contribute to continuously improving delivery practices and ways of working within the project and broader team
Skills
- 5+ years of project management experience within a digital agency or product delivery environment, with a strong emphasis on digital products and services
- Proven ability to manage complex, multi-workstream engagements with overlapping timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder groups
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong instincts for anticipating issues before they escalate
- Clear, confident communicator with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfortable working independently and proactively in a fast-paced environment
- Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and Slack as core tools for project management, documentation, and team collaboration
- Collaborative and solutions-oriented, with a team-first approach and a commitment to quality delivery
Benefits
- Remote; must work Eastern Time Zone working hours.
- We believe great work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach including required in-office days.
- If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.
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