Strategic Communications & Web Project Manager (Contract)

About Us

Codeword is a communication agency that helps brands create breakthrough comms, content, and community experiences.

We’re a fast-moving team of writers, editors, designers, strategists, videographers, PR mavens, and even a few traditional marketers.

Our incredible roster of global brands trust us to launch their startups, run multi-channel campaigns, grow their user bases, and lead comprehensive PR and marketing initiatives. We're storytellers and brand engineers, and we love big ideas that serve a real purpose.

Codeword is a remote-first agency, with physical offices in NYC and SF that we won’t make you visit.

This is a contractor opportunity starting immediately and running through the end of the year.

About You:

• 5+ years of experience in project management, digital production, communications, or a related role
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with a knack for managing complex projects and competing priorities
• A proactive problem solver who can navigate ambiguity, anticipate risks, and keep projects moving
• A strong communicator who can confidently coordinate across leadership, creative teams, Community Development Managers, and external partners
• Comfortable managing external agency relationships and holding vendors accountable to timelines, budgets, and deliverables

About This Role:

Strategic communications & website manager that leads day-to-day digital production across two core workstreams: SPO Hub website and community one-pagers.

The operational bridge connecting the Brand & Creative studio team, wider Economic Community Development Managers (CDMs) and agency vendor partners to ensure campaigns and website updates launch smoothly, accurately, and on schedule.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Strategic Partnerships Office Hub Website
• Lead project management for developing and launching our client’s internal Hub website
• Review and manage all content that is provided to live on Hub
• Use Wagtail CMS tool to upload content into the CMS
• Collect and consolidate stakeholder feedback (during both design and development phases).
• Coordinate with leadership, copywriters and designers on drafts and revisions.
• Review staging links, test deliverables against requirements, log QA bugs, and track remediation through internal ticketing system.
• Agency management
• Serve as liaison for the agency vendor team, managing output and meeting weekly on status updates. Attend weekly syncs, facilitate design reviews with internal stakeholders, and consolidate design feedback.
• Hyperlocal community one-pagers
• Lead project management for developing hyperlocal community one-pagers to be used by Community Development Managers in data center markets with external audiences.
• Coordinate with a copywriter and designer on drafts and revisions.
• Collect and consolidate marketing stakeholder feedback (during both design and development phases).
• Who You Are
• Super Manager: You stay on top of timelines, details, can juggle ambiguity and serve as the operational connective tissue that aligns teams, mitigates risk, and turns strategy into executed reality.
• Proactive & Adaptable: You thrive in fast-paced environments, managing multiple priorities and herding cats across teams to deliver high-quality results.
• A Fiscal & Vendor Steward: You know how to maximize resources. You can direct external creative agencies effectively, ensuring deliverables hit the mark while keeping projects strictly on time and within budget.
• Your Compensation: People –  that's you! – are the heart of our business, and we believe in pay transparency.
• Our budget for this role is $75 - $85/hour, depending on experience.
• Codeword Benefits
• Flexible work hours
• Minimum 20 days paid vacation annually
• 401k + financial wellness support
• Health Insurance (medical, dental, life, pet, mental health services)
• Home office allowance
• Bi-annual Wellness Credits
• Monthly Technology Credit (to offset internet / phone costs)
• Comprehensive Parental Leave Policy
• A few more things you should know about Codeword
• The Codeword dream: Make good money doing work you care about with people you like.
• We love our clients (they write the checks!), which means maintaining a high bar for the creativity, smarts, responsiveness, and communication skills we offer them.
• We’re around 100 people, big enough to handle large-scale marketing programs, small enough that you’ll have an impact on our culture.