The Modern Tog (www.themoderntog.com) is an online website that teaches photographers how to run profitable and sustainable photography businesses. We sell digital business tools and online courses specifically for aspiring and established professional photographers. We focus on the business of photography and growing communities within this niche.
We are looking for an outstanding Project Manager. In our opinion, there are two sides to being a stellar project manager – managing projects and managing people.
We’re looking for someone who is absolutely INCREDIBLE at both!
About you
But enough about us. Let’s talk about you. You are outrageously organized — color-coding, folders, and systems are the stuff of dreams. Taking an idea and turning it into a timeline of clear deliverables actually sounds like a fun way to spend a day to you!
You are incredibly skilled at both micro and macro thinking — making sure the big picture is always moving forward by way of all the tiny details that need to get done.
You also love people — you’re a natural mentor and sounding board, and knowing that you helped someone else succeed gives you enormous satisfaction. You love coaching people to do their best, seeing people’s strengths and talents and drawing it out of them even more. You naturally pick up on subtle team dynamics and are able to proactively jump in to assuage a concern or just offer a few words of encouragement. You are an incredible problem solver — you are strategic, clever, and quick on your feet. You’ll be the go-to person when we’re trying to figure out a sticky issue.
You are extremely resourceful and great at playing detective — you can unravel any problem and figure out what’s really going on, what the missing pieces are, and go out and find them.
You do NOT thrive on being micromanaged and love to be given the freedom to excel in your job. Being trusted to get results without being told how to do every little detail is a dream come true for you.
You are open, direct, and straightforward. You believe that honesty, awareness, and ownership are the direct routes to problem solving. You’d rather not play the “blame game,” but instead just correct the issue and keep moving! You are a solution-based thinker who investigates why things went wrong with the goal of improving the process. You believe that a process problem lies at the root of every apparent people problem.
It is pretty impossible to faze you and you’re able to take a hit and keep rolling — your goal is to get it done, even if the path that gets there isn’t quite the one that you anticipated!
You love to learn and grow, and pick up new ideas, systems, and programs quickly. You get excited about learning something new and absorb the information like a sponge.
Finally, you love thinking about the big picture and considering what could make things better. You’re excited by the thought of being a “visioneer” in an established online company and then seeing your ideas come to fruition.
About This Role
You will be the overall Project Manager at The Modern Tog/Jamie M Swanson Photography LLC. What does this mean? That you’ll be grand central station for all of our projects. You’ll break down our goals into deliverables, hand them off to the right people, then make sure everything is on track and getting done on time.
You’re the go-to person for questions, resources, or whatever our team needs to get the job done. You are excellent at translating big ideas into projects, from figuring out the master plan to figuring out exactly which details need to be executed when.
You’ll also be our “virtual office manager,” doing HR types of tasks like managing employee credit cards, paying vendors, and interfacing with our bookkeeper to keep tabs on finances.
Basically, you are the one who keeps our virtual office humming every day. You keep our team happy and our projects on time, and will be working closely with the main owner of the company.
We are a virtual office – that means you will work from your own home office approximately 80% of the time. The other 20% of the time we will meet together to work near Silver Bay, MN. Although your job will involve working with our small team, you need to be the kind of person that enjoys working from home and managing their own time. You also need to be completely comfortable working on computers and the Internet.
Some of your tasks will include:
- Translating big ideas into projects, deliverables, & timelines
- Working with everyone on our team to determine their top 3 monthly goals, then tracking progress/success on those goals
- Monitoring our task management system actively look for roadblocks and making sure everything is progressing
- Overseeing all of our sites and programs and working with our team to make sure they’re up to date
- Overseeing course content creation — working with our team to break down the course, put together the materials, & make it live and functional for customers
- Facilitating regular team meetings
- Track and analyze the results of projects, suggesting and implementing changes to keep them meeting or exceeding goals
- Overseeing our affiliate program to strengthen and grow our business partnerships
- Determining when tasks should be done in-house vs. through tools and third party vendors
- Researching and recommending tools and third-party vendors for completing our projects, then overseeing their performance and implementation
This is a full-time salaried exempt position where you’ll be working, on average, approximately 40 hours per week, primarily during normal weekday business hours. Occasionally you will need to work more than that, including some weekends and evenings. Once you are fully trained, you’ll be working primarily from your own home office. We expect that you will work, on average, approximately 80% of the time at your home office and approximately 20% of the time in person near Silver Bay, MN.
Job Requirements
- Must have reliable high-speed Internet access that can handle live-stream video chats without unnecessary delays.
- Must have excellent communication skills, both written and spoken.
- Must have a strong attention to detail and be good at prioritizing tasks.
- Must have the ability to work with a team with a positive attitude.
- Must be proficient at using social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter. Experience with WordPress, Adobe Photoshop, Office AutoPilot/Ontraport, Google+ Hangouts, and Skype are a plus.
- Must be able to present proof of ability to legally work in the United States.
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Must be able to travel to Silver Bay, MN for meetings and other work related purposes as needed.
Preferred
- We prefer to have someone who lives near Silver Bay, MN or is willing to move here and is committed to our local community.
- We prefer that you have your own MacBook Pro, MacBook, or MacBook Air that is no more than 2 years old.
- We prefer that you have experience in copywriting, blogging, content marketing, online advertising, social media management, community management, graphic design or ecommerce.
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Thank you for the interest in working at The Modern Tog. However, the position has been filled. Best wishes to you on your job search.
The Modern Tog is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with all applicable local, state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment based on protected class status such as race, age, color, sex, religion, national origin, marital status, familial status, military status, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability and all other protected classes under law.
