Trapeze Media is seeking an experienced, talented individual to join our team as a PROJECT MANAGER (INTERACTIVE) and work on award-winning interactive initiatives with clients such as Procter & Gamble, Crayola, Disney, Paramount Pictures, Sesame Street, MTV, Canadian Tire and Newline Cinema.
Responsibilities
As a Project Manager with Trapeze, you’ll be accountable for:
- Managing the day-to-day tasks of visual designers and front-end / back-end developers
- Creating project plans that define scope, budget and schedule
- Managing risk, creating contingency plans and ensuring project quality
- Communicating directly with clients and other project stakeholders
- Participating in pitches by attending creative brainstorming sessions, preparing presentations, and using your marketing and technology expertise to assist business development
- Contributing to performance assessments of staff
Requirements
You should have a minimum of THREE years of related industry experience as a Project Manager or Producer in an interactive agency environment, including:
- Experience with direct management of designers and developers
- Strong familiarity with most web technologies and a basic knowledge of application development methodology
- Experience creating dependency-driven project schedules (ideally using Microsoft Project)
- Capability for working directly with many industry-standard design tools (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver)
Optional, But Nice to Have…
- Specific experience managing online marketing projects (campaign development, media planning, email marketing)
- Exposure to PMI methodology
- Exposure to quality assurance methodology
- An undergraduate degree
- Hands-on coding experience
Key Attributes
- Passionate about the work and the medium
- Detail-oriented and accountable for deadlines and quality of work
- Highly creative with an ability to generate effective marketing ideas both independently and as part of a team
- Interested in movies, music, fashion and other aspects pop-culture
- Can distil business requirements into technical solutions while retaining a sense of the “big picture”
- Willing to work occasional off-hours when necessary
Package / Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Comprehensive medical, dental, life insurance and disability through Manulife Financial
- Bonus plan and profit-sharing structure
Please provide resume in PDF or DOC format (with URLs where appropriate). No drop-ins, phone calls or faxes, please. Only qualified applications will be contacted.