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Locomotive is expanding its award-winning digital marketing agency and we are currently looking for a Project Manager to join our team.

As a company, we believe in the importance of maintaining a strong and effective working relationship with our clients. We also believe great client service comes from creating a strong and supportive work environment of innovation, creative thinking, transparency, honesty and hard work. If you believe in the power of digital marketing, want to make an impact for clients and be a part of something special, let’s talk.

Responsibilities:
As a project manager, you are one of the primary liaisons between the internal Adapt team and the client. Your job is to serve both the client and the agency by facilitating the success of ongoing client relationships.

At a minimum, you’ll do:

Planning:

• Define, clarify and create project documentation including scope, schedules, project status reports, estimates and other documents as necessary.
• Schedule and prioritize client deliverables collaborating with Adapt technical resources and internal project management team.
• Develop time bound milestone plans to support the achievement of client project objectives.
• Provide input and direction on client strategies.

Organizing:

• • Coordinate and lead regularly scheduled project meetings to identify required actions to achieve timely completion as well as documenting all meetings and communication.
  • Maintain formal project tracking utilizing standard tools.
  • Access and identify qualified, available resources needed for the project.
  • Coordinate multiple resources and review of quality outputs for complex client deliverables.

Leading:

• • • Clearly communicate project objectives, timeline, detailed tasks, and desired outputs to internal and external team members.
    • Monitor the completion of all jobs milestones through the agency and update schedules and team members as required.
    • Proactive in following up with clients and team members to ensure projects/tasks are on schedule and delivered on time.
    • Suggest and implement alternative solutions to problems with timelines, schedules, resources and budgets.
    • Review all client deliverables to ensure high-quality, professional outputs that meet client expectations.
    • Engage and motivate all necessary team members to ensure a successful client experience and outcomes.

What You’re Awesome At (Our Ideal Team Addition)
You are an exceptional communicator who can clearly explain ideas, concepts and strategies to either internal/external team members or to a client.
You’re the epitome of organization. Agency life is fast-paced from managing a variety of projects to keeping clients happy, we need a project manager who excels at multitasking without sacrificing the quality or letting things slip through the cracks.
You’re good at overcoming challenges and have a knack for figuring out new ways to do things.
You’re a self-starter with the ability to influence others in a direct and indirect organizational structure.
You’re a very fast learner who is able to process large amounts of information. We work with a variety of clients across various industry sectors and need to quickly become experts within their field.
You’re a good listener in that you listen to understand, not to only reply.

Your Experience & Education:
3 to 5 years of project management experience within the marketing industry. Agency experience is preferred but not required.
You have experience and foundational knowledge in SEO, Content Marketing or both
Experience with project management platforms (i.e. Wrike, Teamwork, Basecamp, etc.)
Ability to build a professional presentation
Familiar with data analytic tools such as Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics.
Experience with other SEO related tools such as SEMRush, Sistrix, ahref, etc. would be a bonus.
You have a strong technical aptitude. Tweaking HTML and analyzing a spreadsheet doesn’t scare you.
You have a bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, communications or similar.
Let us know if you have any project manager certification.

What You’ll Get:
Salary commensurate with experience.
Healthcare and generous PTO.
A team environment with no egos.
Work with a variety of clients spanning numerous industry sectors, ranging from Fortune 500 to local businesses.
Your ideas will be heard and evaluated.
You’ll be able to make a major impact with our clients.
Because we’re a small team, you’ll have a big impact in shaping the company culture.
Regular Lunch & Learn sessions to help you grow.
We try to get everyone out to a conference at least once a year.

Responsibilities:

SEO Driven: You will be charged with leading strategic and executional initiatives that deliver client revenue performance improvement. You will be the front line, and responsible for uncovering and accountable for the execution of the tactics that will move the needle for the client, and overall success of engagement.

Additional responsibilities include:

Adding structure, as an “owner” of technical and on-page SEO for the client team with the agency,

Assessing and developing complex, multi-faceted strategies on behalf of clients that translate to tactical quarterly deliverables to drive business benefit and client buy in,

Performing thorough, detailed website analysis, identifying current problems and opportunities, with a focus on crawlability, site architecture and site content.

Serving as a primary point of contact internally and externally about SEO, keeping folks updated on project statuses and reaching out proactively with new opportunities.

Staying up to date on current industry practices, news and algorithm updates.

Client Focus: Your goal will be to proactively build critical client relationships, by displaying we are an extension of their internal team, not just an agency handing off deliverables.

Additional responsibilities include:

Attending and leading client and agency meetings to present deliverables, campaign strategies, and tactics.

Working closely with project managers to manage budget, scope, and timeline for retainers and one-off projects.

Tracking client initiatives to ensure strategies are being executed and if not, proactively reaching out to client to find workarounds or other solutions. Additionally, tracking how implemented client initiatives are impacting site performance.

In-House Expert: You will be positioned as one of the agency’s experts on all things related to SEO. Not only does this need to be translated to the client and through client deliverables but also to help grow the agency’s expertise, processes and approach.

Including:

Being a team leader that contributes to growing the agency’s expertise, processes and approach.

Working with analysts to plan each month’s work for retainer clients and reviewing all client deliverables to ensure quality and strategy are being met.

Effectively communicating objectives of projects to team members to receive desirable outcome.

The ability to self-manage and be an effective, positive participant alongside your fellow employees.

Understanding and providing direction for agency resources to be optimally utilized to drive client benefit and long-term consulting relationship.

Experience:

You’ll have at least 6 to 10 years experience in conducting SEO campaigns and related work, with high preference given to candidates with extended agency experience,

You have a strong analytical aptitude and are open and friendly. Diving deep into HTML and analyzing a spreadsheet doesn’t scare you. You probably have a bachelor’s or graduate degree in business, marketing, communications, library science, computer science, information systems, or similar,

You can translate complex ideas to easy to understand concepts for clients,

You have a high standard for quality, ensuring all deliverables are top-notch, communicate clearly, completed prior to deadlines, and on strategy,

Solid understanding of algorithms and recent Google updates,

Strong data analytics and strategy background,

A business mindset to be able to communicate and manage requirements of stakeholders both internal and client facing,

Ability to think strategically and drive solid results to grow the business,

Ability to interact with people at all levels of an organization, fostering strong cross-functional teamwork,

Strong experience in the use of commercially available key SEO industry tools, as well as the drive and motivation to learn how to use our proprietary tools,

Exceptional oral, written, presentation, and communication skills,

Excellent interpersonal skills and an eagerness to work as a member of a team.

Compensation & Benefits:

· Salary commensurate with experience,

· Health insurance,

· Optional Dental, Vision insurance

· 401(k) with company match

· Telemedicine service for you and your family,

· Flexible vacation, including holidays, and a company paid annual break between Christmas and New Years,

· This position is remote-employee friendly, or you can work out of our Apex, NC location.

*Read this before applying:

We will be reading all cover letters (this is a requirement for consideration), so make sure you send one customized for this role. Tell us some things about yourself professionally, and personally, as well as sell us on yourself for this role. Submissions with copy/pasted cover letters or no cover letter will not be reviewed and promptly rejected.

Are you skilled at creating and analyzing dynamic PPC campaigns that convert and yield outstanding results? We are looking for our next team member to come on board at Locomotive. This position is responsible for building and managing PPC campaigns across a variety of platforms including Google, Bing, and Facebook.

At Locomotive, providing an excellent service experience to our clients is always a top priority, so in addition to yielding great campaign results so our clients see a good ROI, we are also looking for a service-minded, congenial professional who is not afraid to jump on a call to explain reporting or propose new ideas.

Locomotive offers great benefits and perks like health coverage, work-from-home flexibility, annual conference participation, company sponsored 401k and more.

Do you think you could be a good fit? Send us our resume today! hello@locomotive.agency