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Growth Project Manager - Operations (Contract)

Key Facts

Remote From: 
Fixed term
Senior (5-10 years)
English

Other Skills

  • Accountability
  • Coordinating
  • Time Management
  • Prioritization
  • Problem Solving

Roles & Responsibilities

  • 5+ years of operations or program management experience in high-throughput environments (agency, growth team, or product team shipping experiments weekly).
  • Has built or rebuilt a tracking or operating system from scratch with concrete examples.
  • Strong spreadsheet skills (pivot tables, lookups) and ability to read basic SQL or Looker queries.
  • Growth fluency with experience in SEO, paid media, CRO, or lifecycle; ability to assess briefs, understand funnels, and identify leading vs lagging indicators; familiarity with at least two of: SEO tools, paid platforms, A/B testing tools, or marketing attribution platforms.

Requirements:

  • Oversee throughput and shipping cadence, including daily ship log, weekly recaps, async standups, contractor target setting, and onboarding.
  • Maintain data hygiene and experiment tracking: manage the experiment tracker, standardize outcome tagging, link results to downstream signals, and publish a weekly leadership recap.
  • Identify bottlenecks and escalation: track SLAs, surface blockers early, map cross-pillar dependencies, and propose forward paths.
  • Coordinate across the team: translate strategy into shippable briefs with owners and deadlines, run weekly cross-pillar syncs, and manage quarterly planning logistics.

Job description

About the role

We're a growth marketing team running experiments across SEO, GEO/AEO, paid acquisition, and on-site testing. The team is scaling significantly over the next two quarters, and we're looking for an operationally-minded project manager to keep the pod shipping at pace while we grow.

You'll be the connective tissue between strategy and execution — owning the systems, cadence, and visibility that turn a growing team into a high-output one. You'll work directly with the senior leader running the team and with a distributed team of contractors and specialists.




What you'll own

Throughput and shipping cadence

  • Run the team's shipping rhythm: daily ship log, weekly recaps, and async standups.

  • Hold contractors and pillar leads to weekly experiment targets calibrated to each pillar's complexity.

  • Maintain a rolling experiment backlog so no one waits for a brief.

  • Onboard new contractors quickly: first ship within their first week.

  • Data hygiene and experiment tracking

  • Own the experiment tracker: structure, completeness, and consistency across pillars.

  • Make outcome tagging (worked / didn't / inconclusive) a standard step.

  • Connect experiment outcomes to the right downstream signals (revenue, registrations, rankings, or visibility) depending on the pillar.

  • Produce a weekly recap that gives leadership a clear read on what shipped, what worked, and what's next.

  • Bottlenecks and escalation

  • Track approval and review SLAs. Surface anything stuck before it becomes a problem.

  • Map cross-pillar dependencies and resolve them before they block ships.

  • Flag capacity, performance, or process issues to leadership in real time, with a recommended path forward.

  • Coordination

  • Turn strategic intents into shippable briefs with clear owners, success criteria, and deadlines.

  • Run a weekly cross-pillar sync — short, written, and focused on collisions and dependencies.

  • Own quarterly planning logistics: pulling leads together, prepping materials, and producing a written plan.


  • Who we're looking for

    We're hiring for three signals, weighted equally. Strong candidates show all three.

    Operational rigor

  • 5 or more years running operations or program management in a high-throughput environment: agency, growth team, or product team shipping experiments weekly.

  • Has personally built or rebuilt a tracking or operating system from scratch, not just maintained one. Concrete examples expected in the interview.

  • Comfortable with spreadsheets at the level of pivots and lookups; can read a basic SQL or Looker query.

  • Async-first communicator. Strong written English. Doesn't let questions sit waiting for a meeting.

  • Growth fluency

  • Has worked inside a growth function before — SEO, paid, CRO, or lifecycle. You don't need to be a specialist; you do need to read a brief and tell whether it makes sense.

  • Understands funnel mechanics and the difference between leading and lagging indicators without translation.

  • Familiarity with at least two of: SEO tools (Ahrefs, Semrush), paid platforms (Google, Meta, LinkedIn Ads), A/B testing tools, and marketing attribution platforms.

  • PM craft

  • Has shipped real outcomes through other people, not just managed tickets. Can articulate the difference between coordinating and project-managing.

  • Comfortable holding senior contributors accountable to cadence — including people who are more experienced or more credentialed than you.

  • Can write a one-page brief that turns a vague intent into a shippable experiment.

  • Knows when to escalate and when to absorb.

  • What this role is not

  • Not a status-update role. If the work would be "forwarding emails and updating a Monday board," this isn't it.

  • Not a pure scrum or agile coaching role. We ship experiments, not sprints.

  • Not advisory. The role is operational and hands-on.

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