This role is not currently open, but we anticipate opening the role in late 2025 and would love to start a conversion now to explore a potential future fit. Please see our CAREERS page to learn more about how we hire at Culture Foundry.
Culture Foundry seeks a Project Leader to organize, inspire, and drive the successful delivery of websites and applications for our clients.
(Note: It’s intentional that we switched “Manager” to “Leader” here).
Quick Download (in case you’re just scanning)
- Full-time, remote role with flexible working hours and unlimited PTO
- Fully Remote with Flexible Working Hours, and Unlimited PTO
- 19 Official Company Holidays including Juneteenth, Election Day and Holiday Break (two weeks at end-of-year)
- Employer paid Health, Dental, Vision, Life and Pet Insurance
- 401K, HSA, and Semi Annual Bonus Program
- Every-other-week 4-Day Workweek
- Meeting-Free Wednesdays
The Company
Culture Foundry is a digital design and development agency creating elevated online experiences for companies, organizations, and brands around the globe. Our sweet spot is a total accountability model that owns the full solution–strategy, design, development, and infrastructure–to deliver exceptional digital experiences.
At Culture Foundry, we’re committed to creating collaborative environments where team members embrace ownership, accountability and shared responsibility. We prioritize putting our clients in the driver’s seat, encouraging ongoing feedback and active involvement throughout each project. We build strong foundations from day one and don’t cut corners. Transparency is central to how we operate because we know our clients’ success fuels ours. We also really love what we do and the clients we have the privilege to serve.
The Job
At Culture Foundry, delivery is a core value and, in this role, you are its champion. Once a client partnership is signed, you’ll take the lead: aligning the team around project goals, weighing options, and documenting key decisions. You’ll own the strategy and feature prioritization, serving as the main point of contact to clarify direction and explain choices. Working closely with designers, developers, and stakeholders, you’ll guide the project from idea to execution delivering beautiful, functional websites and applications.
Definition of success
- Your client trusts you and feels confident their needs are understood—and will be met.
- Your delivery team is clear, inspired, and aligned with project goals.
- You bring creative solutions and strategies to the table.
- The project delivers on time, on budget, and meets or exceeds expectations.
- Culture Foundry is paid in full for the work delivered.
- The finish line is met with pride, clarity, and positive energy from all involved.
- Everyone enjoys both the process and the product.
Key Responsibilities
- Be the product owner
- Document high-level expectations, options considered, and decisions made
- Set feature priorities
- Keep the product firmly trained on the client’s definition of success
- Explain tradeoff options and decisions to the client
- Represent the product during demos and walkthroughs
- Have a thorough understanding of the project, be able to pass a “project pop quiz,” and provide their team with more answers than questions
- Set the project, and your team, up for success
- Translate client goals into actionable requirements
- Determine the cadence and format of project communication (both with clients and with internal project team)
- Architect and drive a project plan, timeline, and budget
- Create a standing agenda, lead client meetings, and internal standups
- Include a plan for contingencies (late changes, dependencies, slow review cycles, etc.)
- Create a backlog of clear, well-constructed user stories in JIRA that clarify the desired outcome while leaving room for the developer to determine the best technical solution
- Bring enthusiasm, passion, confidence, and a reminder of the project’s vision to meetings and communications to empower your team
- Lead the project
- Manage project resourcing
- Monitor project progress and adjust if necessary
- Provide clear, responsive, and consistent communication to client stakeholders and internal team
- Be the calm and positive presence in the room
- Apply an agile mindset
- Collaborate with the Account Manager throughout
- Stay ahead of the delivery team ensuring their tasks are strategically congruent and ready in advance
- Hold team members accountable for daily progress and results
- Land the delivery
- Have a fierce eye for QA and quality
- Maintain project documentation
- Deliver a website or application that is architecturally sound, visually beautiful, meets or exceeds the clients needs, adheres to digital best practices and makes the team proud of their work
- Deliver an easy-to-understand user manual and client training to maximize client autonomy post-launch
Outcomes to avoid
- Team members are blocked due to lack of ready tasks
- The team doesn’t understand how their tasks contribute to larger goals
- “Activity without delivery”: time and budget are spent without client-visible progress
- Negative energy or unclear leadership affecting morale
- Client feels confused, unheard, or disconnected from delivery
- Deliverables don’t align with the original vision
- Budget overruns without clear, prior communication
- Team burnout by the end of a project
Bonus Points:
- You have some experience working in content management systems such as: WordPress, Drupal, and/or MODX
- 2+ years leading technical web development projects through discovery, design, development, QA, and launch
- You’ve worked with JIRA, gSuite, Harvest, Forecast, and Slack before
- You have effective communication skills, both verbal and written, that are clear and adaptable
- You get excited by learning new things
- You’re a proactive problem solver
- You default to asking questions, instead of frustration, when things get fuzzy
Culture Foundry does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, or any other characteristic protected by law or informed by sound ethical judgment.
To apply
Email your resume and some sparkling opening repartee or a cover letter to jobs@culturefoundry.com.
