Project Manager/Site Manager:
 
What You'll Do:
•             Work collaboratively with project team to ensure brilliant ideas are presented to our clients.
•             Interface with clients on project subject matters.
•             Organize cross functional activities ensuring that the project is completed on schedule and within budget constraints.
•             Lead project related meetings for kick off, discovery, status update, close out, etc.
•             Identify and forecast resources for project completion.
•             Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope.
•             Review deliverables prepared by the team before passing to client.
•             Minimize our exposure and risk on projects.
•             Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
•             Be able to review project documentation and status as requested and/or at milestones to ensure quality.
•             Maintain healthy client relationships.
•             Assist on pitches and pursuit of new business.
•             Provide detailed and accurate translations of requests from clients to development and test teams; distribute work to the appropriate resources. Act as a client’s liaison between their requests and the delivery team.
•             Effectively communicate all requirements to the test and dev teams, including billing information and due dates.
•             Continuously communicate project status to Program Manager.
•             Raise red flags and escalate issues to Program Manager.
•             Seek opportunities to improve upon client requests; suggest creative solutions for client problems.
•             Provide excellent, responsive customer service. Maintain or beat all SLAs. Provide immediate response and resolution to fire drills.
•             Understand production and publishing platforms.
•             Provide an editorial scrub on all documents, pages, and graphics.
•             Review deliverables that have been prepared by the project team and approved by test before passing them on to the client.
•             Maintain detailed lists of all items to be published for launch.
•             Coordinate development and test, including regression testing.
 
 
About Us
Ascentium fuses inspired creative chops, technological wizardry and consultative insight to deliver unmatched user experiences and innovative business solutions. Ascentium attained the “highest client satisfaction” score on the 2009 Forrester Wave™ of Interactive Marketing Agencies. We provide transformative results for some of the world’s top brands from our offices in Seattle, Atlanta, Portland, Spokane, Los Angeles, and London. Learn more at www.ascentium.com.

Ascentium is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. 
 
 

What You'll Do:

• Drive projects from proposal to creative vision and through delivery.
• Work collaboratively with project team to ensure brilliant ideas are presented to our clients.
• Interface with clients on technical matters and/or project subject matters.
• Oversee the functional specification, requirements and/or scope that will be used as a tool in making decisions as to how the product, service and/or project will be implemented.
• Provide technical and/or analytical information to product managers, as required.
• Organize cross functional activities ensuring that the project is completed on schedule and within budget constraints.
• Provide standard project documentation like agendas, contact lists, communication plans and status reports.
• Create and execute project documents like Statements of Work (SOW) and Request for Proposals (RFP) and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Lead project related meetings for kick off, discovery, status update, close out, etc.
• Identify and forecast resources for project completion.
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope.
• Review deliverables prepared by team before passing to client.
• Effectively apply our methodology and enforce project standards.
• Prepare for engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures.
• Minimize our exposure and risk on projects.
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Maintain healthy client relationships and foster repeat business.

What is Required:

• Minimum of 3+ years of experience managing and coordinating successful creative or technical projects at a creative agency or consulting company
• Experience managing budgets of 200k+ for one project
• Strong attention to detail and passion for the art of project management
• Four-year degree in business or computer-related field or equivalent experience
• Ability to manage time well and multi-task
• Competent to learn and use new technologies quickly
• Strong leadership, communication and customer relationship skills
• Self motivated with a high level of initiative when approaching projects
• Team player
• Broad awareness of basic Web and intranet technologies
• Authorization to work in the United States 

About Us

Ascentium Corporation is an award-winning, integrated technology and marketing agency.  We fuse inspired creative chops, technological wizardry and consultative insight to deliver unmatched user experiences and innovative, information-driven business solutions to achieve our clients’ strategic objectives. 
 
As testament to our customer zeal, Ascentium was called out as the agency with the “highest client satisfaction” on the 2009 Forrester Wave™ of Top Interactive Agencies.
 
With offices in Seattle, Spokane, Portland, Los Angeles, Atlanta, London, Toronto, Gatineau, and Montreal, Ascentium provides innovative, business-impacting results across multiple channels for some of the world’s top brands. 

Ascentium is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
 
 

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our team in Bellevue, WA. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering creative, meaningful, and unexpected user experiences while ensuring high client satisfaction, high quality of work life for your project teams, and managing project profitability and risk. Our Project Managers combine their knowledge of the creative and technical world to deliver cutting edge projects for some very exciting brands.
 
We are looking for absolutely amazing people who want to change the face of marketing. Who want to transform brands, business, and society through marketing, strategy, business operations and technology.
 
What You'll Do:
 

• Drive project from  initiation through delivery.
• Work collaboratively with project team to ensure brilliant ideas are presented to our clients.
• Interface with clients on technical matters and/or project subject matters.
• Define the scope and plan implementing the product, service and/or completing project.
• Organize cross functional activities ensuring that the project is completed on schedule and within budget constraints.
• Create and execute project documents like Statements of Work (SOW), project planning documents, and status reports and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Lead project related meetings for kick off, discovery, status update, close out, etc.
• Identify and forecast resources for project completion.
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope.
• Review deliverables prepared by the team before passing to client.
• Effectively apply project methodology and enforce project standards.
• Minimize our exposure and risk on projects.
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Be able to review project documentation and status as requested and/or at milestones to ensure quality.
• Maintain healthy client relationships and foster repeat business.
• Assist on pitches and pursuit of new business.

What is Required:

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience managing and coordinating successful creative or technical projects at a creative agency or consulting company
• Experience managing budgets of up to 250k for one project
• Strong attention to detail and passion for the art of project management
• Four-year degree in business or computer-related field or equivalent experience
• Ability to manage time well and multi-task
• Competent to learn and use new technologies quickly
• Strong leadership, communication and customer relationship skills
• Self motivated with a high level of initiative when approaching projects
• Team player
• Broad awareness of internet/intranet trends and technologies in use
• Authorization to work in the United States

About Us
 
Ascentium fuses inspired creative chops, technological wizardry and consultative insight to deliver unmatched user experiences and innovative business solutions. Ascentium attained the “highest client satisfaction” score on the 2009 Forrester Wave™ of Interactive Marketing Agencies. We provide transformative results for some of the world’s top brands from our offices in Seattle, Atlanta, Portland, Spokane, Los Angeles, and London. Learn more at www.ascentium.com.

Ascentium is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. 
 
 

We are seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to join our team in Bellevue, WA. In this role, you'll be responsible for delivering brilliant, unexpected user experiences while ensuring high client satisfaction, quality work life for your project teams, and sound project profitability and risk. If you're an SDM who combines knowledge of the creative+technical worlds and you need a new challenge, bring your savvy client skills and unparalleled strategic brainbower to play at Ascentium.
 
We are looking for absolutely amazing people who want to change the face of marketing. Who want to transform brands, business, and society through marketing, strategy, business operations, and technology.  
 
Senior Delivery Managers manage the delivery of Ascentium services to large accounts or portfolios of accounts.  They oversee and coordinate the efforts of project managers, site managers, project coordinators and interdisciplinary project teams in providing solutions to the client.  SDMs establish and maintain strong relationships with the client and stakeholders to ensure client efforts are coordinated as well.  In this capacity, they team with an Account Director, who focuses on growing the revenue in the account or portfolio.  In addition, SDMs are able to manage large-scale, complex strategic initiatives for our clients. They may also provide consulting services in the field of enterprise project management when requested.  They may also serve as discipline leads, course developers and instructors in project management training programs. The following responsibilities will be fulfilled for one or more accounts or portfolios of related projects and programs that may range up to several million dollars:
 
What You’ll Do:

• Support business development activities by developing a network of client contacts, understanding the client’s needs, formulating solution strategies and developing proposals and statements of work including cost and schedule estimates
• Understand all contractual documents to ensure that proposals, statements of work and project/program plans comply with their requirements and fulfill commitments contained in them
• Lead negotiations with responsible adjustments to scope, cost, schedule plans
• Ensure that work has been properly authorized before effort commences
• Develop realistic and achievable project and program plans
• Manage project, program, account or portfolio activities to successful completion of goals and objectives
• Provide effective leadership for the extended project team, including client and other vendor representatives when needed
• Provide effective leadership in the management of delivery activities at the client and at Ascentium
• Ensure proper closure to projects and programs that have completed, including warranty fulfillment, project retrospectives and administrative contract closure
• Provide assistance to developing market awareness and appreciation of Ascentium Delivery Management capabilities by presenting papers at symposiums and publishing white papers or articles about delivery management

What Grabs Our Attention:

• Minimum 5-7 years of digital agency experience
• Demonstrated ability to provide management oversight of a large account or portfolio of accounts comprised of multiple, concurrent projects with a gross profit of 65%, combined team size of at least twenty people and combined project budgets of at least $5,000,000
• Demonstrated ability to personally manage multiple, concurrent projects to successful completion with a gross profit of 65%, combined team size of at least twenty people and combined project budgets of at least $1,500,000
• Is recognized as an expert in managing projects with both traditional waterfall and agile project management approaches and is able to effectively tailor the approach to the situation
• Has received a Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field or has equivalent experience, Master’s degree or better preferred

Desirable Personal Traits:

• Achievement, action and results orientation
• Customer service orientation
• Helping and serving
• Self-starter
• Aggressive listening
• Good interpersonal communication skills
• Powers of persuasion
• Relationship building
• Appropriate assertiveness
• Conceptual and analytical thinking
• Self-control
• Self-confidence
• Flexibility
• Organizational awareness and commitment

Ascentium fuses inspired creative chops, technological wizardry and consultative insight to deliver unmatched user experiences and innovative business solutions. Ascentium attained the “highest client satisfaction” score on the 2009 Forrester Wave™ of Interactive Marketing Agencies. We provide transformative results for some of the world’s top brands from our offices in Seattle, Atlanta, Portland, Spokane, Los Angeles, and London. Learn more at www.ascentium.com.

Ascentium is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
 
 
 

We are seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to join our team in Portland, OR. In this role, you'll be responsible for delivering brilliant, unexpected user experiences while ensuring high client satisfaction, quality work life for your project teams, and sound project profitability and risk. If you're an SDM who combines knowledge of the creative+technical worlds and you need a new challenge, bring your savvy client skills and unparalleled strategic brainbower to play at Ascentium.
 
We are looking for absolutely amazing people who want to change the face of marketing. Who want to transform brands, business, and society through marketing, strategy, business operations, and technology.  
 
Senior Delivery Managers manage the delivery of Ascentium services to large accounts or portfolios of accounts.  They oversee and coordinate the efforts of project managers, site managers, project coordinators and interdisciplinary project teams in providing solutions to the client.  SDMs establish and maintain strong relationships with the client and stakeholders to ensure client efforts are coordinated as well.  In this capacity, they team with an Account Director, who focuses on growing the revenue in the account or portfolio.  In addition, SDMs are able to manage large-scale, complex strategic initiatives for our clients. They may also provide consulting services in the field of enterprise project management when requested.  They may also serve as discipline leads, course developers and instructors in project management training programs. The following responsibilities will be fulfilled for one or more accounts or portfolios of related projects and programs that may range up to several million dollars:
 
What You’ll Do:

• Support business development activities by developing a network of client contacts, understanding the client’s needs, formulating solution strategies and developing proposals and statements of work including cost and schedule estimates
• Understand all contractual documents to ensure that proposals, statements of work and project/program plans comply with their requirements and fulfill commitments contained in them
• Lead negotiations with responsible adjustments to scope, cost, schedule plans
• Ensure that work has been properly authorized before effort commences
• Develop realistic and achievable project and program plans
• Manage project, program, account or portfolio activities to successful completion of goals and objectives
• Provide effective leadership for the extended project team, including client and other vendor representatives when needed
• Provide effective leadership in the management of delivery activities at the client and at Ascentium
• Ensure proper closure to projects and programs that have completed, including warranty fulfillment, project retrospectives and administrative contract closure
• Provide assistance to developing market awareness and appreciation of Ascentium Delivery Management capabilities by presenting papers at symposiums and publishing white papers or articles about delivery management

What Grabs Our Attention:

• Minimum 5-7 years of digital agency experience
• Demonstrated ability to provide management oversight of a large account or portfolio of accounts comprised of multiple, concurrent projects with a gross profit of 65%, combined team size of at least twenty people and combined project budgets of at least $5,000,000
• Demonstrated ability to personally manage multiple, concurrent projects to successful completion with a gross profit of 65%, combined team size of at least twenty people and combined project budgets of at least $1,500,000
• Is recognized as an expert in managing projects with both traditional waterfall and agile project management approaches and is able to effectively tailor the approach to the situation
• Has received a Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field or has equivalent experience, Master’s degree or better preferred

Desirable Personal Traits:

• Achievement, action and results orientation
• Customer service orientation
• Helping and serving
• Self-starter
• Aggressive listening
• Good interpersonal communication skills
• Powers of persuasion
• Relationship building
• Appropriate assertiveness
• Conceptual and analytical thinking
• Self-control
• Self-confidence
• Flexibility
• Organizational awareness and commitment

Ascentium fuses inspired creative chops, technological wizardry and consultative insight to deliver unmatched user experiences and innovative business solutions. Ascentium attained the “highest client satisfaction” score on the 2009 Forrester Wave™ of Interactive Marketing Agencies. We provide transformative results for some of the world’s top brands from our offices in Seattle, Atlanta, Portland, Spokane, Los Angeles, and London. Learn more at www.ascentium.com.

Ascentium is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
 
 

Ascentium is seeking a contract Senior Mobile Project Manager to manage the development of a droid-based application. This creative, detail-oriented Mobile PM will work closely with our co-located west coast teams of developers, designers, and account directors to drive this project's success, leaning on a strong background of mobile (Droid and iOS) project management and product deployment.
 
The right candidate will be adept in both agile and waterfall methods and be an experienced practitioner of both. They will have a solid background in the digital/wireless/mobile industry, and experience running large, complex, multi-vendor technology projects – preferably in the Federal environment. They’ll have keen business acumen, strong written and verbal communications skills and a passion for delivering excellent products and services to a mobile audience.
 
Project duration: February – June (with potential to extend)
Location: DC or San Francisco with ability to travel up to 50% of the time between coasts
 
 
Responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with ideation, development and launch of applications for use on multiple mobile platforms (mobile Web, smart phone, tablet) and operating systems.
• Assist with all aspects of the product lifecycle, including strategy, product requirements definition, competitive research, forecasting, launch plans, testing and future enhancements
• Oversee efforts of both internal development team and external vendors to drive product development.
• Manage client in D.C. and delivery teams in San Francisco and Seattle

 
Requirements include:  

• 3-5 years of mobile product management experience, including specific experience delivering Droid and iOS products.
• Ability to communicate cross-functionally among sales, technical, creative and account managment teams, explaining complex systems or concepts in appropriate terminology for stakeholders
• Ability to manage co-located teams and clients, orchestrating all communication required
• Familiarity with agile and waterfall development methodology (i.e  Scrum or similar process)
• Experience managing development efforts of vendors
• Expertise in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

About Us

Ascentium Corporation is an award-winning, integrated technology and marketing agency.  We fuse inspired creative chops, technological wizardry and consultative insight to deliver unmatched user experiences and innovative, information-driven business solutions to achieve our clients’ strategic objectives. 
 
As testament to our customer zeal, Ascentium was called out as the agency with the “highest client satisfaction” on the 2009 Forrester Wave™ of Top Interactive Agencies.
 
With offices in Seattle, Spokane, Portland, Los Angeles, Atlanta, London, Toronto, Gatineau, and Montreal, Ascentium provides innovative, business-impacting results across multiple channels for some of the world’s top brands. 

Ascentium is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
 

In the band of characters that bring our exceptional work to life (and delight clients), the Production Manager is pivotal to our success. They plan, execute, and PM the entire production process for direct mail, packaging, retail, broadcast and fulfillment manufacturing. They are the liaison between our team and all external vendors, fighting fires and managing pressure with grace. No small task, but for someone with the right skills, experience and courage, it's the job of a lifetime.
 
 

What You’ll Do

• Responsible for planning, production and execution of complex master production schedules for all direct mail and email campaigns, as well as print and broadcast advertising.
• Responsible for building timelines, schedules, estimates, finding efficiencies and negotiating vendor pricing.
• Responsible for owning the supply chain process for all print production requirements from planning, concept development and through-delivery of components such as postage and letter shop requirements
• Acting as liaison between the internal team and vendors, while managing the flow of information to ensure timely and efficient delivery to customers.
• Proactively hold vendors and internal departments accountable to critical dates, ensuring production schedules are met.
• Work closely with account services, creative and studio departments, ensuring all departments understand project goals and requirements.
• Collaborate with creative and account teams about new techniques and innovations that may positively and significantly impact our clients’ business.
• Review all creative concepts for production requirements to ensure minimization of production issues and cost-saving solutions are implemented.
• Development of team's knowledge of cost analysis, campaign setup and assurance towards quality expectations. 
• Work proactively with vendors to ensure continuous improvement and optimal production solutions for new and existing marketing materials and concepts.
• Manage postal requirements and ensure compliance to regulations.
• Process and track mock-ups, prototypes, electronic templates and printer proofs with vendors.
• Conducts press checks, audits and quality control on final deliverables.
• Proactively communicate supply chain issues to account teams and coordinate solution implementation.
• Participation and leadership of relationship and business reviews with key partners and vendors.

 
What It Takes

• Bachelor's degree required and 7-10 years of experience in a publishing or purchasing, print, lettershop, project management or supply chain management environment, with at least four years previous production management experience.
• Knowledge of the print production process of direct mail and deployment requirements of email.
• In-depth knowledge of postal regulations.
• Demonstrated leadership in PreMedia, Print, Project Management or supply chain environment.
• Strong attention to detail and operational workflow dynamics that points to effective tracking and process analysis skills.
• Highly organized; able to multi-task and utilize resources to execute tasks within a deadline oriented environment.
• Excellent communication and negotiating skills.
• Strong commitment to continuous process improvement
• Ability to solve problems creatively.
• Highly motivated and high level of initiative; inspires confidence to work independently and in support of department goals and business objectives.
• Ability to build relationships and work across geographies.
• Ability to work self-sufficiently and within team environments
• Strong analytics and computer skills (MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

About Us
 
MWR, an Ascentium agency, is a true full-service advertising agency. We employ a powerful and unexpected combination of strategy, creativity and technology – fused with a collective passion for creating brand experiences that make a lasting difference.
 
Ascentium, based in Seattle WA, fuses inspired creative chops, technological wizardry and consultative insight to deliver unmatched user experiences and innovative business solutions. Ascentium attained the “highest client satisfaction” score on the 2009 Forrester Wave™ of Interactive Marketing Agencies. We provide transformative results for some of the world’s top brands from our offices in Seattle, Atlanta, Portland, Spokane, Los Angeles, and London. Learn more at www.ascentium.com.

MWR / Ascentium is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
 
 
 
 

Ascentium is an award-winning, integrated technology and marketing agency with a track record of delivering information-driven business solutions that achieve our client’s strategic objectives. To help us in that mission, we're seeking a Senior Site Manager to join the Web site publishing team.
 
The Senior Site Manager will help delivery teams complete projects successfully—from daily updates to complete website redesigns—and build positive ongoing relationships with clients.
 
What You'll Do:

• Manage the Web site production process. Provide detailed and accurate translations of requests from clients and Project Managers to development and test teams; distribute work to appropriate resources; and track status of team’s work.
• Work with development, design, IA, and QA to create and deliver Web solutions.
• Work with content owners and stakeholders to evolve and enhance their Web sites to continually improve content, site navigation, design, and organization and accessibility. Track consistency across a client’s portfolio.
• Provide editorial scrub on all documents, Web pages, and graphics to conform to editorial standards and enhance search functionality. Write copy when necessary, engage proper content and editorial resource, and provide direction.
• Understand production and publishing platforms; be the Web site expert. Maintain expert knowledge of site standards, styles, and overarching governing standards and requirements.

What Grabs Our Attention:

• Minimum of 5 years in high-tech and/or Web site development and publishing environment. Experience in technology industry is highly desired. Knowledge of software industry jargon is helpful.
• Demonstrable expertise in writing, editing, proofreading or all three.
• Experience working with content management systems and some modest HTML skills preferred.
• Experience working with account management, sales and marketing organizations.
• Expert communication skills.
• Strongly detail oriented and customer service driven.
• Microsoft and previous consulting experience is highly desirable.
• Ability to self-start, ramp up quickly, and work independently.
• BA or BS degree.

About Us
 
Ascentium fuses inspired creative chops, technological wizardry and consultative insight to deliver unmatched user experiences and innovative business solutions. Ascentium attained the “highest client satisfaction” score on the 2009 Forrester Wave™ of Interactive Marketing Agencies. We provide transformative results for some of the world’s top brands from our offices in Seattle, Atlanta, Portland, Spokane, Los Angeles, and London. Learn more at www.ascentium.com.

Ascentium is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.