Project Manager at Carimus – Raleigh, North Carolina

About Carimus & The Role

We are Carimus, a brand experience and digital transformation agency, now proudly part of the Spyrosoft Group. Since 2013, we've brought together the best of art and engineering to create meaningful impact in the digital world. By fusing strategy, creativity, and technology, we help brands break through and connect with their audiences on an emotional level. As part of Spyrosoft, we’re expanding our capabilities and reach while staying true to our human centered approach crafting experiences that matter for both our clients and our team.

This role plays a critical part in ensuring our work is delivered predictably and at a high level of quality. You’ll act as the central owner of delivery, aligning clients, creative teams, and engineering around clear scope, timelines, and resourcing while keeping work connected to business goals. You’ll own day-to-day delivery decisions, ensuring projects stay on track financially and operationally, engineering time is planned effectively, and risks are identified early. Your ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders will directly impact client trust and delivery success.

Department: Delivery

Status & Classification: Full Time, Exempt

Location: Raleigh, NC (Hybrid 3x per week)

Travel Requirement: 15%

What You’ll Do

Manage 4–6 active client projects while supporting long-term account growth through strong delivery and identification of expansion opportunities
Own end-to-end delivery for multiple client accounts, ensuring projects meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations
Align clients, creative teams, and engineering around scope, timelines, priorities, and resourcing decisions
Plan work with creative and engineering teams, including estimation, resource allocation, and capacity planning
Forecast and manage project team utilization, project budget burn, and overall project health
Partner with clients and internal teams to define and monitor project scope, change requests, objectives, and business requirements, ensuring feasibility and shared understanding
Track and report on overall project health, including financial performance, schedule, customer satisfaction, utilization, risks, and escalations, while proactively identifying and resolving issues before they impact timelines, budgets, or client trust
Lead internal and client meetings to drive alignment, accountability, and forward progress
Conduct project reviews and retrospectives to improve future delivery
Manage project and portfolio budgets and provide revenue forecasts for assigned accounts
Support quarterly or semi-annual business reviews alongside of your account manager

Required Qualifications

5–8+ years of project management experience in an agency, consultancy, or professional services environment supporting multiple client accounts
Proven ability to own end-to-end delivery, including scope, schedule, budget, and cross-functional team alignment with accountability for outcomes
Experience delivering on large-scale creative campaigns and projects across different mediums
Experience delivering digital, web, application, or platform-based projects
Experience managing multiple concurrent client projects or workstreams
Working knowledge of planning, estimation, and resourcing for technical and creative delivery teams
Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, or other structured delivery methodologies
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Confidence working with clients as well as technical and non-technical stakeholders
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or equivalent professional experience

Nice to Have

PMP certified (or in the process of obtaining)
Certified ScrumMaster

Who We’re Looking For

We’re looking for an experienced project manager who takes full ownership of delivery and is trusted to make informed decisions in complex, cross-functional environments. You’re comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy, partnering closely with clients, creative teams, and engineering teams to bring clarity to scope, timelines, and resourcing while keeping work aligned to broader business goals. You understand how technical work gets planned and delivered, and you use that understanding to guide teams and stakeholders toward predictable, high-quality outcomes.

You’ll thrive here if you are:

Comfortable owning delivery decisions from planning through completion
Confident partnering with creative and engineering teams on estimates, timelines, and resourcing
Clear and steady in client-facing communication, especially when navigating change
Thoughtful and commercially minded, with an eye toward delivery health and sustainability

Our Values

At Carimus, these values guide every interaction and collaboration internally and with our clients.

Live in the ZOPD. We continually expand our skills by working in the Zone of Proximal Development. We take measured risks and incorporate new technology, but only what we can deliver with excellence.
Be Transparent & Tenacious. We don’t hide from the truth and won’t let our clients, either. We embrace reality, own our mistakes, and attack problems with teamwork and creativity.
Invest in Relationships. Life is better doing interesting things with people we like. We build trusting relationships and strong connections—with our employees and our clients. We go further together.
Create Exceptional Experiences. We exceed expectations—yours and ours. We unite art and engineering in smart, compelling ways that inspire confidence and human connection. We excite and engage, from concept to launch.
Commit to Caring. Caring is in our blood—and our name, “Care I Must.” We’re proudest when we tackle real problems and advance positive change for people and the environment. Let’s get to work!

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and work-life balance, including:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance (with family coverage options)
Life and disability insurance
401(k) plan with employer match
Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options
15 days of paid time off (PTO)
Paid company holidays

Benefits are subject to plan terms, eligibility requirements, and may be updated over time.

Physical Requirements

Normal periods of sitting and standing in an office environment.
Lifting and/or pushing objects up to 35 lbs. on an occasional basis

Carimus provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment, and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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