Wondersauce

This position can be based remotely from:

California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia

About Wondersauce

We are a full-service agency focused on the complete customer journey and helping our clients understand the most relevant ways to reach their audience. Our mission is to transform our clients’ businesses, drive conversion, and create efficiencies within their organizations through smart, beautiful digital products and communications strategies.

We specialize in working with brands that are scaling, and we’ve launched over two dozen successful digital-first brands. We’ve designed and built eCommerce experiences across countless industries and have an agnostic approach to tech. We’ve worked with leading publishers to drive ad strategy, optimize internal workflow, and make sure their content looks great across all devices and channels.

Our team is composed of 100+ vibrant, resourceful, and entrepreneurial people in the design, technology, and marketing space. At Wondersauce we focus on building a culture that allows everyone to create meaningful and impactful work for our team and our clients’ businesses. Our people are the most valuable assets to this culture. As such, we offer a flexible time off schedule, collaborative work environment (with humans and dogs!), competitive benefits including health and stock ownership options, and plenty of opportunity for career growth.

We are looking for smart, organized, and motivated professionals to help manage our growing project and client portfolio. If you are a seasoned producer and project manager with a client services background and are confident handling multiple work streams in the digital production space, then we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Relationship Management: Own key accounts and relationships. The Producer is responsible for managing and growing relationships through strategic partnership, while keeping overall projects moving forward to delivery, and identifying areas for growth within the account.
• Communication: The Producer is a proactive, efficient communicator capable of navigating tough conversations (client and internal) when necessary.
• Strategy: Approach every project with a clear purpose/challenge and ensure all executions meet business and user goals or needs. The Producer acts like a consultant to our clients.
• Production: Lead small-to-medium, multi-disciplinary teams toward the common goal of executing on-brief creative projects. A Producer is able to manage many moving parts and complex workflows, prioritize tasks, and ensure the team meets deadlines. Work with creative and development teams.
• Management: Keep a team organized and moving forward from point A to point B. Responsible for budgets, timelines, and partnering on SOW creation

Requirements

• 2.5 – 5 Years’ program/product/project management experience
• Experience with start to finish project management and production for medium to large products for Web / Mobile Sites, and Paid / Organic Media.
• Experience in a client facing position, responsible for direct contact with client and serving as the liaison between them and internal agency teams
• Demonstrate a well-rounded background in current web and digital media technologies
• Manage and coordinate all aspects of the project, including budget, schedule, operational needs, procedures, client standards
• Experience defining projects, collecting requirements, writing detailed specifications, coordinating efforts to scope, and scheduling/deploying projects
• Experience in analyzing cost/benefit of feature selection
• Ability to coordinate large, multi-functional projects on-time, anticipate blockers, provide escalation management, and balance business needs versus technical constraints.
• Ability to thrive and succeed in a fast-paced environment by showing confidence in navigating ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Ability to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but not afraid to do what it takes to get the job done.
• Excellent time management, resource management, and planning skills
• The candidate will have strong analytical skills, an eye for details, good judgment, and the ability to self-start and self-motivate.
• Serve as the central point of contact for all project partners and share feedback with project team to ensure alignment with project goals and performance standards
• Ability to conduct in-depth quality assurance on both creative materials and technology functionality
• Experience overseeing multiple projects and maintain a high level of attention to detail to ensure compliance with project requirements
• Experience with start to finish eCommerce projects with Shopify or similar, a huge plus!
• Experience with Jira is a plus.
• Experience with Agile is a plus.

Benefits

• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Shorter Friday workdays
• Work Remote Flexibility and entirely remote for remainder of 2021
• Dog Friendly Offices
• Medical , Dental, Vision
• 12 weeks’ Paternity/Maternity Leave
• 401k + matching
• Employee Stock Ownership Program
• Commuter Benefits
• Off every year between Christmas – New Years
• Complementary Subscriptions to The New York Times & The Wall Street Journal
• Monthly stipend to use toward work from home expenses

Wondersauce

Wondersauce is seeking an Executive Producer to join our NYC team!

In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the management and development of a client portfolio that consists of brands and projects spanning digital products, eCommerce, campaigns, content, and production.

Responsibilities

Develop and lead engagement plans that align with agency and client business needs

• Assemble strategy, creative, technology, and product teams to execute compelling work for projects across the portfolio
• Support project teams and key stakeholders (internally and at client) across high-level visions, day-to-day issues, planning, and conflict resolution
• Ensure the product, strategy, creative, and production teams are driving towards a singular vision and are equipped with all the information, tools, and support necessary to execute best-in-industry digital strategies and experiences.
• Establish key relationships with various members of the client teams to ensure we’re being brought in on new, potential projects and relationships
• Identify and sell through areas to broaden the scope of work on any given project/brand; drive scoping and proposals for new business opportunities
• Partner with agency discipline leads to coordinate and manage internal and client teams
• Engage with clients on a regular dialogue about their business and help them address challenges and identify areas of opportunity
• Ensure overall team satisfaction and success
• Provide team leadership; working to ensure projects are successful within budget, timeline, and scope
• Manage staffing, hiring, and allocations across brands
• Lead training/mentoring of producers on production methodology, financial process, and PM skills
• Manage the request and tracking of invoices and POs, working closely with project teams and finance.
• Maintain all project documentation, including SOWs, Change Orders, PRDs, FSDs, Project Briefs, and both client / internal statuses.
• Define, plan, and scope new opportunities, workstreams or initiatives
• Maintain and optimize standardized processes across the portfolio as it relates to project management, delivery, resourcing, financial tracking, forecasting, and client management.
• Assure Agency functions are performed on a profitable basis and assure the primary responsibility for managing the collective Agency work and Client relationship.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as a Senior Product Manager
• Excellent leadership, communication, and presentation skills
• Proven mastery of waterfall and agile methodologies
• Proven track record of leading and delivering large and complex products and services
• A keen eye for detail, and strong follow-up skills
• The ability to understand complex and technical concepts, and then explain them in layperson’s terms to internal team members and clients
• The ability to implement and adhere to product management processes and best practices
• The ability to serve as a trusted partner to both day-to-day client contacts and senior executives
• The ability and willingness to guide/support and mentor junior producers

Benefits

Our people are the most valuable assets to this culture. As such, we offer the below benefits along with plenty of opportunities for career growth.

• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Shorter Friday workdays year-round
• Work Remote Flexibility and entirely remote for the remainder of 2021
• Dog-Friendly Offices
• Various Medical options, (including a no out of pocket plan, which is completely company covered) Dental, Vision
• 12 weeks’ Paternity/Maternity Leave
• 401k + matching
• Employee Stock Ownership Program
• Commuter Benefits
• Off every year between Christmas – New Years
• Complimentary Subscriptions to The New York Times & The Wall Street Journal

Equal Opportunity Statement

Wondersauce aims to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting equal opportunities regardless of religious belief, age, color, race, creed, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, political affiliation, ethnic origin, family status, or disability (subject to the exceptions contained in the Human Rights Act 1993). The commitment applies to all aspects of the work environment, all employment activities, resource allocation, and all employment terms and conditions. Selection criteria and procedures aim to ensure that employees are selected, promoted, and treated based on their relevant merits and abilities.
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