Title: Freelance Senior Project Manager Location: Atlanta United States Job Description: At AKQA (part of WPP), we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products and services. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital services and applications that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients. Project Managers at AKQA are trusted delivery partners, bringing structure, clarity, and accountability to complex digital engagements. They build the conditions for great work to happen, aligning teams, managing competing priorities, and ensuring that every workstream moves forward with purpose and precision. We are seeking an experienced Freelance Senior Project Manager with a strong emphasis on digital product delivery to support a well-known, fast-growing Atlanta-based quick-serve restaurant brand where AKQA has helped spearhead many of their customer and operational innovations. This is a meaningful, high-visibility engagement where strong project leadership directly impacts the digital experiences of millions of people across thousands of locations. ROLE REQUIREMENTS - Lead day-to-day project management across a complex digital product engagement, ensuring clarity of priorities, timelines, deliverables, and accountability across all workstreams - Serve as the central point of coordination across a multi-agency team supporting the client, including internal AKQA disciplines (strategy, UX, design, technology) and other agency partners, ensuring alignment and clear communication across all workstreams - Manage project schedules, milestones, and dependencies with meticulous detail, proactively identifying risks and driving timely resolution - Oversee scope management and change control, partnering with discipline leads to assess impact and maintain alignment on approved work - Support resourcing coordination, ensuring the right people are engaged at the right time across the project lifecycle - Facilitate regular project ceremonies and working sessions, keeping teams aligned and focused on outcomes - Maintain clear and consistent project documentation including status reports, decision logs, and meeting notes that keep all stakeholders informed and accountable - Partner with the client to manage expectations, communicate progress, and navigate complexity with composure and clarity - Ensure delivery processes align with agile, waterfall, or hybrid methodologies as required by the engagement - Contribute to continuously improving delivery practices and ways of working within the project and broader team QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS - 5+ years of project management experience within a digital agency or product delivery environment, with a strong emphasis on digital products and services - Proven ability to manage complex, multi-workstream engagements with overlapping timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder groups - Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong instincts for anticipating issues before they escalate - Clear, confident communicator with both technical and non-technical audiences - Comfortable working independently and proactively in a fast-paced environment - Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and Slack as core tools for project management, documentation, and team collaboration - Collaborative and solutions-oriented, with a team-first approach and a commitment to quality delivery Location & Commitment - Remote; must work Eastern Time Zone working hours. - July 21, 2026 through November 25, 2026 - 40 hours/week - Expected compensation: $3,000 to $3,200/week

• Serve as the primary contact between the sponsor and the organization at the project level. • Ensure escalation pathways adhered to internally and externally (Rules of Engagement – communication pathways). • On projects where the scope requires, ensure clear delineation in responsibilities and communication pathways for secondary project leads (such as lead in a specific region, lead for a specific vendor(s) or subset of delivery). • Accountable for the overall delivery of the cross-functional project (time, cost, quality). • Ensure financial stewardship at a project level by demonstrating an intimate understanding of the contract, resource alignment to budget, management of Out of Scope activity, drive the Con Mod process/negotiations and team execution to timelines. • Establish, communicate and manage customer expectations to achieve optimal delivery during the project • Drive Risk Identification and Issue Resolution at project level (RBQM/RESOLVE). • Ensure project team compliance with organization policies, SOPs, ICH- GCP, regulatory and project specific requirements.

Role Description On behalf of our Information Technology client, Procom is searching for a Project Control Officer for an 8-month role. This position is a fully remote position with the candidate required to reside in Ontario due to OPS policy. The APEX/ORDS Evergreening project aims to upgrade the technical stack for five critical applications. This initiative involves upgrading systems software and hardware components to ensure compliance with Ontario's Digital and Data Strategy, with cloud hosting as a targeted outcome. Responsibilities - Provide assistance to project managers and project team in coordinating, planning, communicating, and executing the delivery of core project components. - Collaborate with various groups to gather updates and maintain project budgeting, progress reporting, action items, and risk management updates. - Work alongside project managers to provide updates, escalate issues, identify risks, and lead project document deliverables. - Coordinate and track user acceptance testing activities. - Develop project status reports and maintain status reporting logs. - Schedule meetings and monitor project document repository to ensure documents are reviewed and maintained. Qualifications - Experience collaborating with various groups for project updates and maintenance. - Experience working with project managers on updates, risk identification, and document deliverables. - Business analysis experience with end-user/client communication. - Experience coordinating and tracking user acceptance testing activities. - Experience in a professional environment supporting project managers and critical projects. - Experience developing project status reports. - Experience monitoring project document repository. Requirements - Proficiency with project management software (e.g., MS Project, Planview). - Understanding of basic Project Management concepts. - Experience using AI to assist with project artifacts. - Experience creating and presenting using PowerPoint or alternatives. Assignment Length This is an 8-month contract position. Start Date ASAP. Assignment Location Remote, with the candidate required to reside in Ontario.

Role Description The Agile Project Manager will support a cross-functional project team focused on driving the end-to-end digital product lifecycle for features and products improving the overall online experience for the state. The Agile Project Manager will develop new processes and methodologies for the product development leadership, consistent with the goals and objectives of the new Connecticut Digital Service. The work supports the Digital Product Manager in managing project scope and schedule, project status reports, change management, governance, role identification, and business communication with stakeholders. Qualifications - At least 3 years of experience in Project Planning & Management - At least 3 years of experience in Risk/Issue Management & Mitigation - At least 3 years of experience in Product Owner Support - At least 3 years of experience in Team Management & Team Building - At least 2 years of experience with Digital Platforms, Tools, and Discipline Requirements - Defining project scope and schedule - Focusing on regular and timely delivery of value and ensuring sprints are completed on-time - Organizing and leading project status and working meetings - Preparing and distributing progress reports - Communicating plan deviations - Performing delivery planning for assigned projects - Defining and managing a well-defined project management process - Championing ongoing process improvement initiatives - Identifying and mitigating plans - Resolving issues to keep the project moving - Proactively avoiding risks - Ensuring the team meets required policies - Making recommendations for continuous improvement - Supporting the Product Owner in managing expectations for project deliverables - Managing stakeholder communications - Helping to implement an effective system of project governance - Assisting in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments - Removing roadblocks - Assigning tasks to individuals and balancing the workload across teams - Leveraging organizational resources to improve team and individual capacity for project work - Ensuring team members are fully engaged in the project, making a meaningful contribution and encouraging a sustainable pace - Motivating team members - Working with enterprise scale digital platforms specializing in at least 3: omni-channel service delivery, web content management, customer relationship management, identity and data integration - Establishing continuous improvement/delivery pipeline to continually improve products post-launch based on customer research and feedback - Leading documentation and communication throughout the product lifecycle for both technical processes and cross-functional teams affected by new change - Using productivity, communication, and analysis tools to manage iterative delivery, such as JIRA/Confluence, Google Analytics, Git Repository, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) Company Description