Project Manager (Contract)

Ready to Make your Mark?

As a Project Manager, you are the hub of successful project execution, ensuring the seamless delivery of our Digital Solutions. In this contract role, you will support the team by coordinating resources, managing efficient workflows, and forecasting project needs to help the team you work with exceed its goals.

The Project Manager serves as the operational leader for our highly motivated, multidisciplinary consulting teams. This teammate has a clear understanding of and experience with all phases of digital experience and analytics projects, focusing on resource planning, task management, on-time delivery, risk mitigation, and clear communication on project status and impact.

Project Managers partner with other consultants to enable exceptional delivery that meets our clients’ needs. You bring a strong operational mindset, a passion for creating efficiency, and experience leading the execution of complex initiatives. As a Project Manager, you have an opportunity to Make Your Mark every day by solving operational challenges and contributing to the positive impact our work has on clients and teams.

Primary Responsibilities

• Build effective working relationships with client stakeholders and consulting teams.
• Serve as a key point of contact for project communications and coordination.
• Ensure on-time, on-budget, and in-scope delivery of defined project work.
• Translate client goals and SOWs into actionable project plans, tasks, and timelines.
• Coordinate with consultant teams to ensure deliverables are completed and value is clearly demonstrated.
• Assist with planning and facilitating meetings, including agendas, documentation, and follow-ups.
• Support the development of proposals, project plans, and resourcing needs for new opportunities.
• Identify and communicate project risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
• Manage workflows, project plans, and resource assignments for assigned clients.
• Maintain accurate resource projections and capacity planning throughout the engagement.
• Lead project ceremonies such as stand-ups, prioritization sessions, retrospectives, and deliverable reviews.
• Help ensure quality by managing review cycles and project documentation.
• Contribute to improving internal project management processes and tools.

Desired Knowledge, Skills, & Qualifications

• 2–3 years of project management experience within professional services or technology.
• 1–2+ years in a client-facing role or agency environment.
• PMP certification preferred.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Background in resource planning, forecasting, and multi-team coordination.
• Strong critical thinking, organization, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate complex or technical information into clear plans.
• Experience with Confluence/JIRA (or similar tools like Asana, Monday, ClickUp).
• Experience with Microsoft Project or similar PM tools.
• Familiarity with digital experience disciplines such as Analytics, MarTech, CX Strategy, Experimentation, or Tag Management.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote consulting environment supporting East Coast clients.
• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
• May require additional background checks for work with government clients.

This is a contract remote opportunity supporting clients on the East Coast. Eastern or Midwest time zone preferred. Due to the nature of our consulting agency, digital nomads will not be considered.

Who We Are

BlastX Consulting provides strategic, digital experience advice and implementation services to help brands drive deeper customer relationships using data-driven insights to optimize the digital experience. Over the past 25+ years we have assembled a seasoned team of consultants with deep expertise and experience across a wide array of strategic, technical, and operational disciplines who share a passion for helping brands be customer-centric, creating strategies to enable the ultimate experience across touchpoints.

BlastX Consulting embraces and holds to a set of Core Values and encourages each member of the team to continually find ways to “Make Your Mark” for clients, teammates, the community, the industry, and the company. We are an Inc. magazine top 5000 fastest-growing private company and are also a Great Place to Work-Certified company.

To Be Successful

To be successful in this position, you must have strong attention to detail, be able to work in a demanding and fast-paced environment, focus on essential tasks, prioritize multiple tasks, and be willing to learn. The characteristics that lead to success at BlastX Consulting are:

• Keen attention to detail and willingness to pay attention to the "small things"
• Make Your Mark by executing highly customized analytics implementations and developing innovative technical solutions
• Evolve your intellectual curiosity and help drive success
• Deliver in-depth knowledge of code, and be interested in digital experience optimization and tag management solutions
• Strong problem-solving skills, breaking down complex issues to find the root cause
• Confident in your ability to explain complex, technical subjects to non-technical individuals
• Willing to lean on teammates when needed and support teammates when they need your expertise

You Will Work With

Director, Client Service Leader, Client Service Leaders, Consultants, Clients, and Project Managers.

Are You a Fit?

BlastX Consulting is a small, growing company that is continuously inspired to learn and tackle challenges in digital analytics and marketing. To get an idea of whether or not you would be a fit within our culture, please review our core values.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At BlastX Consulting, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Compensation & Benefits

Hourly Range: $30 to $40 per hour, depending on experience and project alignment.

As this is a contract engagement, it does not include employee benefits. Compensation is paid hourly for hours worked.

How to Apply

If you like what you’ve read thus far, please complete the application form and submit your cover letter and resume in one PDF format. We are not interested in placement agencies or companies at this time.

BlastX Consulting is an “at-will” employer. Compensation, benefits, and job descriptions are subject to change based on individual performance and business conditions.

BlastX Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).