Junior Project Manager

Panama City , Panama
full-time Remote

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Join a forward-thinking team where you will manage SEO-focused initiatives, enhance project delivery, and collaborate effectively across teams.

About the Role

Mod Op is seeking a Junior Project Manager to join our expanding Search Experience team — someone who is passionate about how work gets done and how teams collaborate. This role sits at the intersection of SEO strategy, delivery, and collaboration. You’ll support search-focused initiatives across technical SEO, content optimization, audits, and implementation, helping ensure projects stay organized, properly resourced, and moving forward.

We’re looking for someone early in their project management journey who is curious, proactive, and genuinely passionate about their work. Someone who takes pride in doing things well, asks thoughtful questions, and wants to grow inside a modern, search-forward team.

What You’ll Do

Support SEO

  • Coordinate day-to-day SEO work across both ongoing retainers and project-based initiatives.
  • Build timelines, task plans, and delivery schedules for SEO initiatives.
  • Track progress, milestones, and dependencies across teams.
  • Support Design, Development and QA workflows to ensure SEO work is executed correctly.

Collaborate Across Teams

  • Work closely with the Search team, Technical Project managers, and Account managers.
  • Support smooth handoffs between strategy, execution, review, and release.
  • Schedule meetings, capture notes, and track next steps.
  • Communicate clearly, follow through on commitments, and surface risks early.

Resource Management (Search-Focused)

  • Support resource forecasting for the Search Experience team, including hour allocations across retainers, projects, and audits.
  • Monitor utilization at a high level, including capacity constraints, PTO coverage, and resourcing risks.
  • Help adjust resource plans as scope shifts or new work comes in.

Documentation & Process

  • Keep project documentation organized, accurate, and up to date.
  • Follow established workflows while identifying opportunities to improve how work gets done.
  • Support ticket creation and tracking in tools such as Jira or similar systems.

Requirements

What We’re Looking For

  • 1–3 years of experience in project coordination and digital marketing
  • Exposure to SEO workflows, website updates, or audit-driven projects
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams.
  • Proficient in English (written and spoken) to collaborate with global teams and stakeholders. (Mandatory)

Skills & Mindset

  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Clear, thoughtful, written and verbal communication
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks without losing focus or quality.
  • Foundational understanding of SEO concepts and terminology
  • Comfort working with project management and collaboration tools.

Soft Skills Matter Here

  • A true team player who enjoys supporting others
  • Curious, motivated, and eager to learn.
  • Takes ownership and follows through.
  • Positive attitude and strong work ethic
  • Responsible, disciplined, and takes initiative
  • Passionate about doing good work and improving processes.
  • Comfortable asking questions and growing through feedback.

Nice to Have

  • Experience in a Marketing agency or search-focused team.
  • Familiarity with SEO tools such as Airtable, Google Search Console, SEMrush, or Screaming Frog.
  • Exposure to CMS or development workflows
  • Experience assisting with resourcing, forecasting, or utilization tracking.

Benefits

  • Health and Life Insurance for employees and family, access to Vision benefits, Telemedicine services, Psychology support and others.
  • On the job training and career growth opportunities.
  • Access to LinkedIn courses.
  • Fully remote job.
  • Talented team environment, collaborative offices, fun company culture with a great balance of work and play.
  • Vacations are granted by day or weeks according to the employee's approved request.
  • Salary with yearly review and competitive benefits.
  • Competitive compensation based on experience and skill set.

When asked what they love about working at Mod Op, we hear:

  • “I feel I can be myself at work and it’s fun!” -MV
  • “The caliber of the clients/brands we work with, knowing your work is seen by thousands of people, in many cases across the world.” -JC
  • “We actually create videogames!” -AC
  • “We have an all-star team, and it’s like playing in the pro-bowl every day!” -MW
  • “Opportunities to always learn from and work with the best and the brightest.” HW
  • “Mentors and opportunities for growth.” -KB

Mod Op, LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Health Insurance: Health and Life Insurance for employees and family, access to Vision benefits, Telemedicine services, Psychology support and others.
  • Learning Budget: Access to LinkedIn courses.
  • Job training & career growth opportunities: On the job training and career growth opportunities.
  • Paid Time Off: Vacations are granted by day or weeks according to the employee's approved request.
  • Remote-Friendly: Fully remote job.

At Mod Op, everything we do starts with understanding our clients’ marketing opportunities. Then, we identify the unique methods to help them achieve those goals. That may mean launching a complete, integrated advertising and PR campaign or tapping into some of our more specialized expertise for a given project.We have experts in strategy and advertising, digital media, public relations and social media, digital optimization and technology, and a robust creative studio, each with deep industry experience in consumer and lifestyle products, energy, media and entertainment, technology and travel and hospitality – and clients such as Microsoft, Nike and Fender.We’re in New York City, Miami, Dallas, Kansas City, Portland, Los Angeles and Panama City, Panama.We are thoughtful. We are purposeful. And yes, we’re creative, too.We’re Mod Op. And that’s our M.O. You in?

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