Project Manager

About the company

Verve is a strategic digital branding agency for tech companies. We build brands for companies with international ambition. Around 70% of our clients are based outside the Netherlands.

We are a team of 35+ people with a clear ambition: to become one of the top rebranding agencies in the world. Verve is part of United Playgrounds, a group of independent boutique agencies.

Your tasks

You keep projects on track.

You know what was sold, what the team needs and what the client expects, and you make sure those line up before anyone starts designing. You plan carefully, you see overload coming before your colleagues feel it, and you raise the difficult conversation early. Creatives trust you with their time. Clients trust you with their launch date.

As our Project Manager, you run brand and website projects from kick-off to launch.

You work in pairs with a creative director and a strategist, and with designers, motion and developers around them. You create and turn a signed proposal into a plan people can work from. You guard scope, budget and timing, and you keep the client close without letting every request into the project.

This is a hands-on role. You are in the planning, in the client calls and in the studio, not managing from a distance.

Run projects

• Create project plans.
• Translate signed proposals into realistic plans, phases and milestones.
• Lead kick-offs, client check-ins and presentations together with the creative lead.
• Track hours and budget weekly and act before a project goes over.
• Spot scope creep early and turn it into a clear choice for the client: change the plan or change the quote.
• Manage the handover from brand to digital, so design and development start from the same page.

Look after the team

• Plan capacity across projects together with operations.
• Notice when someone is overloaded and fix it before it becomes a problem.
• Give designers room to do their best work by k...