Gorilla 76 is seeking a full-time project manager to join our team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for building project plans, driving delivery, monitoring timelines and scope, facilitating process improvement and supporting capacity management across the agency.
Your work will directly support revenue-generating projects and help shape strategic decisions related to hiring, product offerings and pricing.
Your key accountabilities will include:
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Drive delivery across the project portfolio
- Maintain project timelines and budgets by coordinating with leadership and delivery teams
- Monitor project burn and proactively address overages and blockers with relevant team members and leadership
- Facilitate retrospectives to improve delivery processes and forecasting accuracy
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Ensuring pricing and scope are accurately reflected in client contracts and invoices
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Develop project plans and scopes of work
- Create detailed work breakdowns and timelines for new and emerging client projects
- Maintain templates for budget and scope for commonly executed deliverables
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Monitor and manage team capacity
- Facilitate short-term planning to support sustainable workloads and on-time delivery
- Monitor and report on mid- to long-term capacity and provide recommendations for resource allocation
- Manage outside contractor relationships in support of client delivery
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Improve internal project management practices
- Review and maintain project management standard operating procedures
- Facilitate the creation, maintenance and continuous improvement of standard operating procedures for client projects
Before applying, please review the following:
Your role
This position focuses on facilitating delivery teams through resourcing, planning, execution and project closeout. You'll develop scopes of work, monitor burn and adherence to those scopes, and support teams in closing and reflecting on projects.
You'll also maintain and continuously improve capacity reporting and forecasting. Your work will lay the foundation for nearly all revenue-generating projects at the agency.
Some travel possible.
What success looks like
- Attention to detail: You're comfortable getting into the weeds to create and approve source-of-truth documents for projects and capacity reporting
- Data interpretation: You spot patterns and anomalies in data and use them to inform decisions
- Strategic thinking: You balance long-term thinking with day-to-day execution, understanding the downstream impact of project decisions
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Effective communication: You clearly and kindly communicate complex ideas to teammates at all levels of the agency
- Constant improvement: You actively refine processes to improve data quality, efficiency and results
- Accountability: You reliably deliver accurate work on time and take ownership of outcomes
In your first three months, you’ll…
- Complete onboarding and training
- Learn and begin using our tech stack
- Develop an understanding of Gorilla's key products, processes and capacity systems
- Meet with all department directors
- Attend monthly State of Gorilla meetings
- Set personal and professional goals for your year
Within six months you’ll…
- Master existing systems and recommend improvements aligned with project management best practices
- Support delivery teams through full project life cycles for a portfolio of clients
- Help deploy improvements to processes and reporting
- Feel confident owning your role and responsibilities
- Earn trust as an effective and accountable teammate
Within one year you’ll…
- Be an expert in your role
The person
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Embodies our core values of Results, Improvement, Relationships, Kindness and Inclusivity
- Has a foundational understanding of project management best practices, including Agile methodologies
- Has business or marketing experience, or a strong appetite to learn core marketing and business principles
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Can engage in direct, constructive conversations with team members and leadership
- Is a confident multitasker with strong attention to detail
- Is a self-starter who can move forward with incomplete information and figure things out
- Thinks analytically and is comfortable uncovering and interpreting data to inform decisions
- Communicates clearly, kindly and empathetically
- Learns new software and systems quickly
The team
While small and tight-knit, we’re a team — not a family. This allows us to hold one another accountable. To understand who we are, review our manifesto and five core values, check out our Instagram and see what people say about us on Glassdoor.
We use the following tools to get work done
- ClickUp
- Slack
- Google Workspace (Gmail, Sheets and Google Calendar)
- Zoom
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Loom
- Keynote
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Dropbox
- HubSpot
- MacOS
Employment statements
By applying for this position, you are certifying that the information provided on this application form and any other documents provided to Gorilla 76 are complete and accurate. If asked to provide work samples, you are certifying that samples provided were created by you. Withholding information or providing false information will result in a refusal to hire or termination of your employment. This application is valid for 90 days, and you must reapply for consideration beyond 90 days.
Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle and policy at Gorilla 76, where employment is based upon your capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, citizenship status, marital status or any other legally protected characteristic. This policy of Equal Employment Opportunity applies to all policies and procedures relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.
