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Freelance Product Manager
| Contract
,We are looking for a seasoned Product Manager, who thrives in the cross section of creativity and technology, to join Barbarian. The Product Manager will collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team to design, develop and deliver solutions with a focus on digital performance marketing.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Lead the team in implementing Agile methodologies and practices
- Adapt Agile methodologies to the context of the agency to client relationship
- Work with creative, technical, ux and strategy leads to manage the project lifecycle from end-to-end
- Continuously optimize the product and roadmap, manage prioritization and trade-offs on customer requirements, market landscape, and industry trends
- Manage multiple fast-paced projects with short turnarounds
- Successfully produce and deliver integrated projects and workstreams
- Prioritize workflow for an amazing team of strategists, creatives, technologists, and account services to ensure deadlines and client needs are met
- Actively position oneself as a digital advisor, client advocate internally and an agency advocate with client
- Develop timelines and budgets (scopes/SOWs) to ensure proposed concepts and ideas are executable
- Monitor project resource allocation, hours and burn reports and provide on-going project risk management
- Respond quickly to incoming client requests, and proactively communicate the status of those requests
- Thrive in a highly flexible, adaptive, creative, collaborative and interdepartmental environment, alongside multi-disciplinary peers with the ability to leverage multiple perspectives as pillars for innovation
- Identify areas of growth for the business
- Successfully articulate digital solutions and/or processes in a simple and engaging way (both internally and client-side)
Requirements
- Minimum of 7 years of product management experience
- 5+ years work experience managing projects with Marketing and Advertising Technology (e.g. DMP, DSP, SSP, DCO, CDP, CMS, DAM etc.)
- Experience managing Salesforce Marketing Cloud and/or Adobe Experience Cloud implementations prefered
- Deep understanding of project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile etc.) and proper application integrating methodologies into project
- Preferably at least one project management certification(s); such as, Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Coach (CSC), Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Project Management Institute's (PMI) Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification, SAFe® Agilist
- Strength in creative problem-solving and critical thinking
- Experience with managing medium-to-large scale development and campaign projects from scope to delivery
- Experience and knowledge of Strategy, Experience Design, Visual Design and Development best practices
- Up-to-date technical knowledge of web, mobile and social channels
- Experience using JIRA
- Ability to identify gaps in process and define solutions
- Experience with interpreting client requests and concepts into clear/defined deliverables
- Experience with presenting approaches and solutions to internal and external parties
- Previous experience managing clients in a digital agency with project management focus
- An independent work ethic and drive and know when to escalate to management
- Ability to thrive in a collaborative, cross-functional agency environment
- Excellent organizational, communication skills, both oral and written
- A positive attitude, flexibility, and a sense of humor
Barbarian is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We strongly support diversity in the workforce.