We are looking for a Project Manager for the design team of video production at the Foxford online school.
About the team and the role:
- Foxford's video production design team: 13 designers and illustrators plus a manager. The team is responsible for supporting and developing animated content for educational and media projects. There are more and more tasks, and a project manager is needed to coordinate and free the team from operational load.
- You will work with the head of the department and designers, and communicate with related teams: creative producers, animators, directors, marketing, and product design. We need a partner with experience and a fresh perspective, who can identify what's not working in processes and suggest improvements.
What you will do:
- Manage team task trackers and plan workload: monitor status updates, priorities, and deadlines, and warn about risks of missing deadlines in advance;
- Participate in kickoff meetings with clients: record requirements, deadlines, and expectations, and write follow-ups;
- Coordinate processes with related teams, define areas of responsibility;
- Keep track of vacations, time off, and sick leaves, coordinate replacements;
- Respond to operational questions from the team to relieve leads and the manager of routine tasks;
- Suggest process improvements: automation, templates, regulations.
What is important:
- At least 1 year of experience as a project manager, project coordinator, or operations manager;
- Systems thinking: you can identify process breakdowns and propose solutions;
- Love for structure: spreadsheets, regulations, checklists, transparent statuses, reports;
- Confident work with task trackers. We use Planfix and Yonote, experience with Jira and other trackers is also suitable;
- Experience in planning team workload;
- Working with metrics: you understand that tasks and the team have data, and you know how to work with it;
- Initiative: you suggest improvements, not wait for instructions;
- Positive attitude: you can support the team and calmly handle difficult situations.
Will be a plus:
- Experience in design teams, video production, advertising agencies, media;
- Understanding of creative production: storyboards, animation, advertising;
- Experience setting up processes from scratch.
What we offer:
- Opportunity to build and improve processes and see the results of your work;
- Work format: remote or from the office at m. Tulskaya, Moscow;
- Official salary: 114,800 ₽ gross and annual review based on performance;
- Official employment, VHI with dental care, sick leave compensation;
- Flexible start to the day: results are what matter most to us;
- MacBook provided for comfortable work;
- Development: learning foreign languages through corporate courses, discounts on Foxford products, access to an online library, and reimbursement for external training.
Hiring process:
- Interview with a recruiter;
- Test assignment;
- Final interview with the head of the department;
- Offer.
To apply with a cover letter:
- Explain what attracted you to this vacancy;
- Describe your project experience;
- State your salary expectations.
