Junior Project Manager

Role: Junior Project Manager

Function: Strategy and Operations Team, Marketing

Hiring Manager: Heather Davis

Level: L2

About Drift

Drift is the Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue and increase customer lifetime value, faster. More than 50,000 businesses use Drift to align sales and marketing on a single platform to deliver a unified customer experience where people are free to have a conversation with a business at any time, on their terms. Our mission is to use conversations to make business buying frictionless, more enjoyable, and more human. After just four years in market, the company has become one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies and was named to the Forbes Cloud 100, LinkedIn Top 50 Startups, Entrepreneur's Top Company Cultures, Boston Business Journal's Best Places to Work, and SaaS Company of the Year by the NEVCA.

Drift is seeking a detail-oriented Junior Project Manager with excellent written and verbal communication skills to join our strategy and operations marketing team. This is a new role which will help teams throughout marketing scope, plan, and deliver on Drift's enablement marketing initiatives.

About the role:

This role will be responsible for scoping, resourcing and delivering projects across each function of the marketing organization. The Junior Project Manager is responsible for understanding department priorities, removing blockers, and delivering projects on time and on budget. Working closely with marketing as well as other Drifters, this role will touch a wide variety of projects and build relationships across the company.

Ideal candidates are passionate about problem solving, hypergrowth company culture and the future of sales and marketing. Previous experience in project management is preferred but is not necessary.

This role will:

• Partner with team members across marketing to scope, prioritize, resource, and monitor status across a given project lifecycle
• Identify and manage project risks - and escalate issues as needed to remove blockers
• Follow standardized processes for setting agendas, taking meeting notes, and providing follow up and action items
• Aid in training and enablement of our project management system, Asana
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders across the business, often with those in senior management
• Help communicate about spending and planned budget allocations
• Effectively apply our methodology and enforce project standards
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately

About You:

• Highly organized and detail oriented
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong time management skills
• Understanding of resource planning and prioritization
• Proven record of managing projects to hit goals on time and on budget
• Fast learner with initiative and willingness to learn new things and problem solve
• Experience with Asana, project management tools, and/or project management methodologies is a plus
• Experience working within a marketing department or creative agency is a plus