Growth Project Manager - Operations (Contract)

Job title: Growth Project Manager - Operations (Contract)

About the Role We're a growth marketing team running experiments across SEO, GEO/AEO, paid acquisition, and on-site testing. The team is scaling significantly, and we’re looking for an operationally-minded project manager to keep the pod shipping at pace while we grow. You’ll be the connective tissue between strategy and execution — owning the systems, cadence, and visibility that turn a growing team into a high-output one. You’ll work directly with the senior leader running the team and with a distributed team of contractors and specialists.

What You'll Do

• Run the team's shipping cadence: daily ship log, weekly recaps, and async standups. Hold contractors and pillar leads to weekly experiment targets calibrated to each pillar's complexity. Maintain a rolling experiment backlog so no one waits for a brief. Onboard new contractors quickly: first ship within their first week.
• Own the experiment tracker: structure, completeness, and consistency across pillars. Make outcome tagging (worked / didn't / inconclusive) a standard step. Connect experiment outcomes to the right downstream signals (revenue, registrations, rankings, or visibility) depending on the pillar. Produce a weekly recap that gives leadership a clear read on what shipped, what worked, and what's next.
• Bottlenecks and escalation: Track approval and review SLAs. Surface anything stuck before it becomes a problem. Map cross-pillar dependencies and resolve them before they block ships. Flag capacity, performance, or process issues to leadership in real time, with a recommended path forward.
• Coordination: Turn strategic intents into shippable briefs with clear owners, success criteria, and deadlines. Run a weekly cross-pillar sync — short, written, and focused on collisions and dependencies. Own quarterly planning logistics: pulling leads together, prepping materials, and producing a written plan.

What We're Looking For

• Operational rigor: 5+ years running operations or program management in a high-throughput environment (agency, growth team, or product team shipping experiments weekly). Has personally built or rebuilt a tracking or operating system from scratch, not just maintained one. Comfortable with spreadsheets at the level of pivots and lookups; can read a basic SQL or Looker query. Async-first communicator. Strong written English. Doesn't let questions sit waiting for a meeting.
• Growth fluency: Has worked inside a growth function before — SEO, paid, CRO, or lifecycle. You don't need to be a specialist; you do need to read a brief and tell whether it makes sense. Understands funnel mechanics and the difference between leading and lagging indicators without translation. Familiarity with at least two of: SEO tools (Ahrefs, Semrush), paid platforms (Google, Meta, LinkedIn Ads), A/B testing tools, and marketing attribution platforms.
• PM craft: Has shipped real outcomes through other people, not just managed tickets. Can articulate the difference between coordinating and project-managing. Comfortable holding senior contributors accountable to cadence — including people who are more experienced or more credentialed than you. Can write a one-page brief that turns a vague intent into a shippable experiment. Knows when to escalate and when to absorb.