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Plan Left Technical Project Manager (100% Remote) in Manila, Philippines

Overview

The Project Manager is responsible for the maintenance and support services for all our clients. This is a Jr. Project Management role that focuses on website management, updates, support requests, and SLAs. The role utilizes a Kanban style management board with a growing set of existing clients. This role is accountable for their department's resource management and client requests. This is a Jr Project Management position, and some on-the-job training is provided. There are opportunities for advancement.

Qualifications

  • Atleast 5 years Experience with Wordpress and/or Drupal Content Management.

  • Some project management experience.

  • Strong customer service-oriented and product-oriented mindset.

  • Impeccable communication skills.

  • Empathetic and compassionate with people.

  • Organized and motivated.

  • Ethical and trustworthy.

  • Ability to effectively self-QA your work and others work.

  • Ability to take initiative and be proactive with workload.

  • Ability to take, give, and discuss constructive criticism.

  • Strong rational thinking, logic and critical reasoning, and analytical problem solving skills are a must.

  • A sense of humor.

Responsibilities

  • Customer service. Nothing else is more important than ensuring our customers have the best possible experience. As such, we expect our Support Manager to be intelligent, empathetic, and compassionate communicators.

  • Work with each site's CMS to perform content updates based on client requests.

  • Investigate technical issues reported by clients or other team members.

  • Support requests should receive a human response within 2 hours of receipt.

  • Client support service oversight and management:

  • Managing support requests with the technical team.

  • Total task, ticket, and project ownership, from opening to closing.

  • Identify and manage Billable vs non-Billable support tasks.

  • Review and manage project documentation for accuracy and completeness.

  • Demonstrates understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods.

  • Account management for support clients:

  • Achieve Project Objectives as laid out in Approved Proposals and Tickets .

  • Plan Ticket/Project scope and Keep Approved Proposals and Tickets within scope.

  • Effectively uses organization resources for managing Projects and Support.

  • Project Planning: Analyze, plan and develop requirements and standards in reference to billable projects.

  • Gather and Manage Assets from Clients.

  • Gather and Manage Assets from Team.

  • Review project documentation for accuracy and completeness.

  • Demonstrate understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods.

  • Enforce team standards of time logging, communication, and performance.

  • QA work before presentation to clients.

Communication and Standards

  • Available to co-workers and clients during regular business hours, 9 am to 5 pm CST.

  • Effectively lead team throughout project and task lifecycle to achieve outlined objectives.

  • Weekly/monthly/quarterly updates with clients with ongoing projects; detailed, scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables.

  • Attend regular technical team meetings to determine progress and address any questions or challenges regarding projects.

  • Work with Technical Leads and Architects to determine outcome based scope as needed.

  • Determine and define clear deliverables, roles and responsibilities for staff members required for specific projects or initiatives.

  • Enforce team communication standards with ticket descriptions, comments, handoff meetings, chat, phone and acceptance criteria.

  • Be empathetic and compassionate with people.

  • Ability to take initiative and be proactive with workload.

  • Ability to take, give, and discuss constructive criticism.

  • Ethical and trustworthy.

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