LIGHTSPEED SYSTEMS Marketing Project Manager/Scrum Master Salary in the United States

Job Overview:

As the Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master, you understand the importance of supporting a high performing team with a million projects and overlapping deadlines. In fact, if you lived in Medieval times, your title would be “The Herder of Cats.” If you are extremely organized, deadline driven, detail and goal oriented, and a great communicator, you’ve come to the right place! In this role you will: collaborate with team members to assist in planning, managing, monitoring, and reporting on key projects from conception through implementation. You will meet with project requestors to get the details, host sourcing meetings, create timelines, lead daily standups, and organize sprints stages to meet Marketing goals and drive projects to completion. And you care about results, as part of this role you will host postmortems to drive continuous improvement and track project performance to gather metrics that informs ROI. You may need to provide training and mentoring to team members and strive to create a collaborative work environment.   

About You:

• Has a growth mindset and knows what a growth mindset is. 
• Be flexible and adaptable at all times as you go in and out of full autonomy and then into deep collaboration. 
• Relish the opportunity to be an integral part of a team, but also like to roll your sleeves up and do the daily work of building something great. 
• Ability to think holistically, with a sharp eye for detail and consistency. 
• Thoroughly believes that the devil is in the details and is confident they can get those details right. 
• Can manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously, from concepts to deliverables. 
• Comfortable with feedback and adapts quickly to changing information. 
• Experience working in a deadline-driven atmosphere. 
• A humbleness that reminds you to always listen and understand before forming your own opinion
• A compelling and unique point of view. 

About the Role

• Lead daily standups, scrum meetings, and sprint planning
• Planning, managing, and executing projects related to marketing campaigns
• Work with marketing team and other internal stakeholders create and implement marketing strategy
• Develop project plan based on marketing campaign objectives
• Map out and delegate the tasks required to implement campaign strategy or company vision
• Manage content and marketing campaign timelines, including setting deadlines and content launches
• Create and manage project budgets
• Maintain marketing documentation ensuring proper naming, storage, and version updates
• Provide insight on marketing operations
• Manage special marketing projects as needed
• Manage all marketing vendors, facilitate production and distribution of print collateral, direct mail, tchotchkes, and other physical marketing assets
• Tradeshow management and execution

Need to have

• Bachelor’s degree in business, management, marketing, or related field
• 3 – 5 years of project management experience, preferably in Marketing
• Strong understanding of project management principles and practices
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels of the organization

Preferred

• Experience in K – 12 industry
• Experience in Marketing Department/Marketing Coordination
• Project management certification or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum
• Administrative experience with a robust PM tool (Jira, Robohead, etc)

We require all qualified applicants, as part of the application process, to complete a set of assessments here (part one will take 7-10 minutes and second part will be a timed 12 minute assessment).

ABOUT US

Education is undergoing a technology revolution with new devices and tools being added to the classroom every day and IT departments are responsible for keeping all this technology managed, safe and working. That is where we come in! Lightspeed Systems, ed-tech provider and leader in K-12 device filtering for 20 years, partners with schools to make learning safe, managed and mobile. Learn more at www.lightspeedsystems.com.

We love our employees, and we show it. A sneak peek into our BENEFITS & PERKS include:

• Health -- Medical, dental and vision insurance with healthy company contribution toward premiums.
• Wellness -- Lightspeed kicks cash into your HSA if you participate our HDHP. Employees are provided an adjustable desk and onsite gyms at some offices. Healthy Holiday and PTO policy.
• Retirement -- 401(k) matching up to 6%
• Perks -- Fully stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages. Some lunches provided as well!