Position: Project Manager role at Icebreaker.Agency
Company: Icebreaker Agency
Experience required: 1y
Category: Project Manager
English level: upper
Published: 2023-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

We’re looking for someone to handle project management role at our Web Design and Development agency.
Responsibilities include, but not limited to:
 - Project management: working alongside our design and development team to ensure effective project completion
- Account management: communicating with clients
- Partially HR (posting jobs and doing initial screening) and admin tasks
- Marketing and administrative tasks (prepare portfolio materials, use chatgpt to write pitch decks, project scopes and other materials, updating wordpress websites, etc).

Requirements:
- Fluent spoken and written English
- Attention to detail, being able to identify project gaps and suggest solutions
- Team work: being able to work with the team, resolve possible misunderstandings between clients and developers/designers
- Availability - being able to check in daily, performs the updates/follow-up, make sure projects run on schedule (no delays, confusion etc)

Typical engagement scenario:
Before project
- Communication with clients (after kick-off call with Dmitry)
- Gather and prepare scope of work, clarify project details
- Prepare contracts

During the project:
- Kickoff call with the team
- Communication with the assigned developers/designers
- Communication with clients: sending drafts, collect feedback, answer questions, concerns etc
- Create Trello boards for each project
- Making sure operations run smoothly and on schedule
- Weekly updates on progress for clients, request weekly progress updates from developers
- Do quality check on developer’s work: mobile responsiveness, links, speed, bugs etc
- Only submit updates that have been thoroughly checked internally

After the project:
- Request positive feedback: testimonial on upwork, clutch ($50 bonus for every clutch testimonial we receive)
- Prepare case studies (ask permission to publish their website in our portfolio)
- Prepare upwork portfolios
- Request permission to use “developed by IceBreaker Agency” for a bonus/discount

Rate: Start rate is $12-15 USD/hr, starting at 20 hrs/week. Flexible schedule. First 4 weeks will be a trial period (paid in full).
Final hire/no-hire decision will be based on the following factors:
- Performance
- Ease of communication
- Availability
- Desire to grow and improve (personally and as part of our team)

About us:
We’re a UI/UX and development company founded 2 years ago. We’ve been steadily growing and at this point looking for passionate project manager to join our team and help our founder who’s currently doing most of the PM work himself. IT-background is preferred, but not required. Internally we communicate in English and Russian, but anyone is welcome to apply.

Looking forward to your applications!