Sr. Project Manager (Digital) (onsite)

We are Fresh. Together let’s build the future. With partners and clients, we practice strategy, design, development, and engineering to harness the power of technology and create what's next.
Our cross-disciplinary approach blends human ingenuity and technology, empowering us to meet uncertainty with confidence. What got us to today won’t get us to tomorrow, so we test our assumptions and always strive for growth. From the products we build to the partners we collaborate with, we believe people make the difference.
And we do so as a workforce representative of the communities we serve, understanding that a diverse workforce strengthens our organization. We value diversity and support a positive and welcoming environment where all of our employees can thrive.
Why join Fresh?
We are tech industry veterans in software, hardware, strategy, and design who are pooling our skills to build the future we want to live in. We are solving real-world problems for people by leveraging robotics, machine learning, and computer vision, among other technologies, with an eye toward the end-to-end user experience. Our teams are agile, diverse, and driven. We believe that the best way to solve complicated, dynamic problems is collaboratively and respectfully. Most of all, we were built from the start as a modern, high-performance services partner that puts people -- from our employees to our partners to our clients to their customers, first.
What will you be doing?
You will be joining the Digital Product Studio that is a multidisciplinary group of product designers, UX designers, visual alchemists, storytellers, web architects, application developers, AI pioneers, and leaders. We are dedicated to fostering a strong, collaborative team culture, and consistently find ways to outperform yesterday. Together, we work to understand our client’s problems, in order to craft robust, elegant, purposeful, and innovative solutions. 
The ideal candidate for this role will have experience in managing both design and development projects and is one who takes absolute passion and ownership over the work they do, contributing as a partner and collaborator with the project teams they manage. They are able to navigate ambiguity, recognize patterns, make analogies to drive clarity, are a natural problem solver, and can drive escalations through difficult conversations. In your role, you will consistently utilize your skill sets in order to achieve alignment and resolutions that result in meaningful outcomes for the client, team, and Fresh.
Key Responsibilities:

• Project Leadership: Lead and coordinate all aspects of a project delivery, from initiation to closure. Focus is on primarily Design and/or Software Development work across a wide variety of industries.
• Team Facilitation: Direct multidisciplinary teams through the phases of a project, maintaining enthusiasm and focus while attempting to build momentum and velocity.
• Client Interaction: Consult with clients to define project scope and objectives, maintaining effective relationships and monitoring client satisfaction.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate with directors across multiple disciplines for effective resource allocation.
• Collaboration Skills: Foster collaboration within teams and resolve conflicts with both timeliness and efficacy.
• Adaptability: Demonstrate flexibility in project management approaches to meet specific team, client, and project needs.
• Visual Management and Reporting: Clearly communicate project activities, milestones, deliverables, timelines, budgets, and scope to both internal teams and clients.
• Technical Skills: Utilize Project Management Tools, Cloud Storage, communication tools, and spreadsheets effectively.
• Budget Management: Be a loyal steward of the client’s project budget. Ensuring financial responsibility to spend budget on contracted work that both aligns with their goals and makes them confident they’re receiving high value.
• Performance Measurement: Regularly measure and present project performance using appropriate tools, maintaining a firm grasp of overall project profitability and delivery excellence.
• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate project risks proactively.
• Operational Excellence: Drive continuous improvement through project retrospectives, best practices sharing, and contributing to process and template revisions.

Leadership and Soft Skills:

• Thrive in ambiguity, be highly adaptable.
• Ability to act with urgency in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Hold teams accountable with compassion.
• Take pride, passion, and ownership in your work.
• Recognize patterns, solve problems.
• Lead with empathy, patience, and transparency.
• Demonstrate curiosity and tenacity, with a mindset for growth.
• Possess strong organizational, presentation, and communication skills.
• Proven track record of motivating teams to get things done.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of project management experience, managing multiple projects concurrently.
• Proficiency in Agile Scrum methodologies, using tools such as Kanban.
• Process-oriented mindset without becoming process-burdened.
• Experience with Project Management Tools and Cloud Storage.
• Ability to manage projects in a variety of domains.
• Located in Bellevue, WA or willing to relocate.
• Project Management certifications are a bonus but not required.

We’re big believers in empowering our team to do their best work by offering:

• High integrity, values-driven Executive Leadership Team
• Competitive salary and benefits plan
• HSA / HRA Options to Medical Plans
• Employee Insurance premiums paid by Fresh
• Competitive time-off plans
• 401K with partial matching
• Training and development programs
• Daily catered lunch
• Partnerships with interesting and engaging clients who align with our values
• Fun and collaborative work environment with a focus on growth

For a Washington-State-based role, the base salary hiring range for this position is $90,000 to $130,000. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Equal employment opportunity: All qualified persons will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, familial status, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability for which a reasonable accommodation can be made or any other status protected by law.  Assistance will be gladly provided upon request for any applicant with sensory or non-sensory disabilities.
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