Director, Technology (Tech Project Manager)

Company Description

Digitas Health is the Agency of Now: the first global connected-health agency, purpose-built for marketing today. Digitas Health specializes in helping health brands navigate a complex and shifting media environment to create deeper, more relevant connections with their consumer and professional customers. With offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and London, it is a member of the world's largest healthcare communications network, Publicis Health. As a member of this elite network, Digitas Health is also a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A. (Euronext Paris: FR0000130577), the world's third-largest communications group, second-largest media counsel and buying group, and a leader in digital communications.

Web: www.digitashealth.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/digitashealth | Twitter: www.twitter.com/digitas_health

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com.

This is a hybrid role, requiring three days in-office each week. If you are contacted for an interview, your recruiter will discuss specifics with you, inclusive of any necessary reasonable accommodations.

This role will report to SVP, Technology at Digitas Health.

Job Description

Our advanced Technology capability delivers cutting-edge, high-impact digital products and platforms by bringing our core offerings to bear. These include marketing technology strategy, platform and tool recommendations, full-stack software/platform development, quality assurance, business analysis, and managed services.

We have strategic partnerships with leading marketing and technology companies, enabling us to utilize top platforms and tools for our clients. By collaborating with Digital Strategy, Experience Design, Creative, Data and Analytics, Project Management, and Account teams, our technologists drive innovation and transforming the marketing landscape. You’ll be working with a diverse group of highly qualified individuals, who bring intellectual curiosity, determination, and creativity to our client work.

We’re seeking a Director, Technical Project Manager to support the successful delivery of complex tech and platform projects throughout their lifecycle, helping to achieve transformative success for our clients. You’ll be responsible for delivering high-quality outcomes that ensure client satisfaction, meet business requirements, and balance client and
agency economics. This role involves owning project definition, scope monitoring, budgeting and timing of their projects and team deliverables

The ideal candidate will:

• Be collaborative and have a strong work ethic
• Understand the complexities of delivering complex technical engagements
• Communicate ideas, decisions, and reasoning clearly and succinctly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Have a self-driven desire to stay current with the latest sites, gadgets, trends, and innovations

Key responsibilities include:
• Leading health, client satisfaction, and continuous success of multiple projects and programs for one or multiple clients in a matrixed environment
• Developing and maintaining relationships with the client IT, marketing, customer experience, and promotional review teams as well as internal business and technology teams
• Ensuring the team utilizes a flexible project management approach through a strong understanding of Agile, Waterfall, & AgileFall methodologies/approaches and when to apply each
• Scoping and estimating complex, multi-channel engagements and being accountable for SOW accuracy
• Developing key operational tools (e.g., team or brand-specific processes)
• Leading large teams to drive complex technology-focused programs/engagements to completion based on scope and budget.
• Demonstrating the ability to hire and retain highly capable people while cultivating diversity and career development
• Maintaining project financials and tracking burn of budget/hours against scope on a weekly basis
• Driving production of accurate and realistic cost-to-complete estimates and forecasts for assigned projects through collaboration with project leads (and Business Manager if available)
• Reviewing projects to resolve resource and skill requirements; driving resource allocation management; partnering with project leads to ensure the right resources are assigned
• Being accountable for project plan creation and management
• Proactively seeking opportunities to adjust processes for efficiencies
• Structuring and leading project status reviews; leading cross-team post-mortem s