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- have ambitions to create or market the world’s best websites for positive impact organizations?
- seek to apply your skills to making a difference in the digital world?
- want to collaborate with a team that challenges, encourages, and supports you to accomplish your goals and aspirations?
- yearn for flexibility, training, and a life/work balance
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Digital Project Manager — Applications Closed as of 10 Jan 2025
We are looking for an experienced Project Manager that can oversee the full lifecycle of our website projects from design to launch to maintenance, ensuring they meet high standards of creativity and functionality while keeping our clients informed.
About Digital Mountaineers, LLC.
We are a full service web organization that focuses on serving Positive Impact Organizations™. We, like our clients, strive to be a catalyst for positive change. We are a remote-first company and hope you’ll join us on our adventure to make a positive impact. Learn more at:
- Website: https://digitalmountaineers.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digitalmountaineers
About the Role
The core of our work is in creating accessible websites. We are looking for an experienced Project Manager that can oversee the full lifecycle of our website projects from design to launch to maintenance, ensuring they meet high standards of creativity and functionality while keeping our clients informed. This role is highly technical and should be comfortable diagnosing, triaging, and troubleshooting technical website issues.
Background, Time Expectations, and Pay
This is a newly created position due to company growth! This position reports to our CEO and title/pay is commensurate with experience. This is a mid-level position with an estimated starting pay range of $20 to $30/hour. Estimated 60 to 80+ hours per month.
Education Requirements
It’s about the knowledge, not the degree(s). If you are qualified based on our description, please feel free to apply.
About Your Experience
Project Management Skills
- Advanced experience in managing website projects from requirements gathering & planning through execution and launch.
- Monitor and report on web project performance to drive improvements and innovations.
- Proactively identify bottlenecks or emerging problems and manage complex business problems with simple solutions.
Technical Skills & Tools
- Understanding and experience with CMSs (particularly WordPress), analytical tools, CRM, and digital marketing/fundraising tools.
- Ensure all digital content is accessible and meets the standards of our diverse audiences.
- Above average understanding of AI, its uses, and how to implement it within projects.
- Strong project management tool experience (e.g. Jira, Jira Product Discovery, Jira Service Management, Notion, or equivalents).
Team and Client Management
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all client communications, ensuring consistent and proactive engagement throughout each project.
- Experienced in managing remote designers and developers.
- Collaborate closely with internal teams and external stakeholders to integrate insights into project planning.
Design and Development Methodologies
- Demonstrated experience using human- and equity-centered design and product development methodologies.
- Refine and lead Digital Mountaineers’ quality assurance testing protocol across projects.
- Develop and maintain project documentation, including project manuals, training guides, FAQs, and a knowledge base
Strategic and Analytical Thinking
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data and insights to drive decision-making.
- Self-motivated, with the ability to prioritize and manage workload to meet critical project timelines.
Extra Credit
- Previous work experience in the nonprofit space.
- Experience in nonprofit web design, development, and/or digital marketing while managing all project delivery elements within time limits.
- Any project management certification.
- Experience with an Agile framework, particularly SCRUM.
- Portfolio of experience launching large-scale web projects.
- Experience defining and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of and drive optimization of web projects.
- Experience with Headless CMSs such as Contentful or Santity.
Senior WordPress Developer (Full-time)
Hiring immediately. Title negotiable. Are you a web development and WordPress rockstar? We are looking for an experienced, perfectionist that wants to help us help those that help others. This position reports directly to the CEO. We all live in different time zones and that’s okay. You are free to work your day in your local time zone.
About You:
- Passion for web accessibility (WAI-ARIA and WCAG 2.1+).
- Exceptional HTML, CSS, & JavaScript skills.
- Exceptional knowledge of PHP.
- Advanced WordPress development experience (including with PHP/MYSQL).
- Advanced WooCommerce development experience.
- Knowledge of Google’s Core Web Vitals and how to address issues.
- Website Speed is a priority and you know how to get there.
- Excellent at ensuring websites are mobile-friendly.
- Experience building and/or customizing WordPress plugins.
- Experience with developing custom WordPress themes.
- Experience with customizing popular WordPress themes.
- Experience with creating custom post types.
Extra Credit:
- Any IAAP Certification.
- Any SEO Certification.
- You’re actively involved in a11y communities.
- Full stack experience beyond HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Experience with Advanced Custom Fields, Elementor, The Events Calendar, MemberPress, and other popular WordPress plugins.
Web Accessibility Specialist (Part Time)
Accessibility is a passion of our CEO and we are looking for a New Mountaineer that can take to task incorporating accessibility into everything we do. This position reports directly to the CEO.
About You:
- Have some form of accessibility experience.
- Familiarity with WordPress CMS.
- Advanced knowledge of WCAG 2.1 Standards.
- Experience with web accessibility tools (e.g. WebAIM/WAVE, aChecker, etc.)
- Can communicate accessibility standards with developers.
- Can communicate accessibility standards with UX/UI designers.
Extra Credit:
- Any IAAP Certification.
- You’re actively involved in a11y communities.
Business Development Consultant (Part Time)
Do you believe in Our Purpose and rock at business development? We are looking for energetic, results-driven individuals that want to help us help those that help others. This position reports directly to the CEO.
About You:
- Have some form of Business Development experience.
- Experienced in writing proposals.
- Can communicate technical concepts to potential clients.
- Can communicate with developers.
- Familiarity with WordPress CMS.
Diversity & Inclusion At Digital Mountaineers:
All Roles Require:
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A passion for helping others.
At the core of everything we do is a mission to do good. It’s important we have team members that have the same mission. -
Excellent Communication Skills.
We work remote, so the importance of good communication is amplified. -
Self-Driven Work Ethic.
Yes, we work remote, but we also give our Mountaineers freedom and flexibility. Because of this, one must be self-driven and bring it home with old-fashioned work ethic. -
A Never-Ending Thirst for Knowledge.
We Mountaineers are students of life and we love it!
How To Apply
Ready to take the leap? If so, please make sure to answer the questions below and submit your work history.
We don’t use an ATS so don’t worry about keywords or whether or not someone will see your application. We will see it and read it! Similarly, we don’t need a fixed format for your work history. You can submit your LinkedIn profile, resumé as a PDF, or your portfolio website; whatever you submit, please make sure it includes your work history and answers the below questions as this is what we’re interested in seeing!
How many years of WordPress experience do you have and how many years of project management experience do you have?
What constructive criticism do you have for Digital Mountaineers? Is there anything you would recommend?
What is your favorite nonprofit or positive impact organization? What makes you passionate about them?
What questions do you have for us?
What to expect from us
after you apply
- We Read Every Application. You took the time to submit it, so we will take the time to read it.
- A Response! Whether you are selected to move forward or not, you can expect a response within 1–3 business days.
- Optional Feedback. Don’t you feel so defeated when you get a rejection email and it comes from a “no-reply” email address? We will make ourselves available to provide optional feedback if that’s something you seek.
