Project Manager

We are looking for a passionate Project Manager to work with our team & our clients to deliver projects of high quality, on time.

You are a process-oriented person, a structured thinker, and have excellent communication skills? You pro-actively foresee the path a project will take which enables you to intervene in time and give clients a warm and fuzzy feeling? You keep your team’s back free so they can focus on delivering the project instead of the administrative nitty-gritty? **We are looking for you**

**What. AG** is one of the leading digital consultancies with a headquarter in Zurich, Switzerland. With our global team, we build digital products, create outstanding websites, and help our clients to grow. Our clients range from leading startups to global Enterprises.

You will be in touch with all of these working directly with our motivated, talented, distributed team of 50+ people.

**Responsibilities**:

- For the projects under your umbrella, you are the main point of contact for both the client and the team.
- You ensure that people are working on the right thing by actively managing the backlog and assignments in Gitlab.
- Let developers be developers, let designers be designers. Make sure they have what they need so they can get things done.
- You ensure that tasks are done right by checking the quality of the work done and providing structured feedback to help everyone get better. To achieve this, you collaborate with our QA team.
- You manage client expectations for projects to ensure the client is and remains happy.
- You are in charge of estimating projects and changes together with the team. The budget is your responsibility and you make sure projects are profitable.
- You are responsible for regular reporting on all your projects to create visibility for the current status both on the client-side and internally.
- You graduated from University with a Bachelor’s degree or higher. The topic of your studies ideally relates to the job profile (e.g. computer science, business).
- You have a proven track record of at least 3 years as a project manager, ideally in a digital agency or a high growth startup. This means you know how to handle uncertainty and how to steer projects confidently under high-pressure circumstances.
- You have a solid understanding of the full digital project lifecycle and can guide a team through the steps. Ideally, you are tech-savvy to the degree that you would not shy away from building your own website from scratch.
- You are an excellent communicator and speak German and English fluently. Your written communication in these languages is close to perfect (C1 or higher).
- You are process-oriented and want to continuously improve the processes to make your job easier. As a structured thinker with an analytical mind, you are able to analyze a situation, break it down, and make your insights accessible to others.
**How is it to work with us**:
At **what.** we believe that work should be fun and something you want to do and not something you have to do. We help that along with the following:

- Work fast and get results quickly. We are very results oriented and want to turn our projects into successes together with our clients.
- Need to take care of something in the morning and want to catch up later? No problem. We are results-oriented not micromanaging.
- Flat hierarchy - Get decisions fast when you need them.
- You have a large amount of responsibility in your department. Do you want to change something? See possibilities to improve how we do things or what we do? The only thing needed is to speak up and we will discuss.
- Multicultural and multidisciplinary team with a focus on improving and learning. We want you to learn and grow which is why you also have access to individual training and guidance.
- Various perks that you can benefit from, weekly pilates classes etc.
- Fair compensation
- Excellent office location in Seefeld in Zürich, if you work from here.If you are not in Zurich you can come and visit us - we cover the costs.

Please send your **CV with a cover note and a short intro video** (we find Loom or YouTube work best). Please add the link to your intro video in your cover note. Explain what attracted you to the role and why we should hire you.