Digital Project Manager

University of Washington • Seattle, WA

3d • $75,000 - $92,520

About The Position

KUOW is hiring a Digital Project Manager to coordinate technology projects from planning through implementation and evaluation. Reporting to the Product Manager, Digital Media Products, the role defines project goals, scope, schedules, stakeholders, risks, success measures, and communication plans. It coordinates work across participating teams, tracks progress, and supports successful launches and post-project reviews.

The Digital Project Manager serves as a central point of coordination among KUOW leadership, editorial and business teams, and external partners. The position calls for independent judgment, organization, analysis, and clear communication. The role helps teams create realistic sprint and quarterly plans, maintain a shared understanding of priorities and capacity, keep projects moving, identify risks and obstacles, coordinate follow-up, and communicate with project leads, participating staff, and leadership. Candidates may bring experience from technology, public media, communications, nonprofit, government, operations, or other project-based settings, and apply Scrum or other structured project-management approaches as appropriate.

The position is suitable for remote work. The working-conditions description also identifies a cubicle/open workspace, potentially involving additional or higher levels of noise and visual distractions, and notes eligibility for hybrid/occasional telework.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• At least 3 years of experience managing complex integrated projects.
• Demonstrated familiarity with project-management methodologies and tools, such as Scrum.
• Proven history of managing cross-departmental projects with stakeholders of varying levels of technical fluency.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and oral.
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams while also operating independently.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with developers, product managers, and other technical team members.
• Experience using monday.com and Salesforce to manage work streams.
• Familiarity with public radio and podcasts.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate KUOW technology projects from planning through implementation and evaluation; organize work into sprints or other manageable units and track milestones, deliverables, and near-term commitments.
• Maintain project plans, schedules, action items, decisions, and status updates; coordinate work across teams and support project launches and post-project reviews.
• Lead sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and related meetings as appropriate; track progress toward sprint goals and identify obstacles.
• Use Scrum and other iterative project-management practices to organize and track work; coordinate quarterly planning that considers priorities, capacity, ongoing commitments, and proposed projects.
• Identify stakeholder roles, decision points, communication needs, and potential conflicts; establish suitable meeting and reporting practices.
• Prepare meeting agendas and project status updates, document decisions and action items, and communicate progress to project teams.
• Work with project leads and participating teams to clarify goals, scope, expected outcomes, timing, affected groups, dependencies, risks, and measures of success.
• Prepare information to support project approval, deferral, revision, or rejection by appropriate decision-makers.
• For approved projects, coordinate project-management norms and team expectations, including communications, training, testing, implementation planning, and launch preparation.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• The job posting refers applicants to the University of Washington staff benefits website for benefits information but does not specify individual benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level