Project Lead

Description

If you're passionate about technology and innovation and are always seeking new challenges, we want to meet you! At BASE Digital, we believe the true differentiator lies in people. We love technology, but we know what truly matters is human connection. That's why we're looking for incredible talents who want to make a difference in the digital world. All our positions are remote-first, fostering a culture where work can be done from anywhere. **Ready to soar with BASE?** We're looking for a **Project Lead** to join our Portal Support team. If you're passionate about web development and want to work in a collaborative environment, this opportunity is for you! **\# Responsibilities and Deliverables (Scope of Work)** **As a strategic partner, the professional/company will be responsible for:** **Strategy and Planning:** Lead development projects, ensuring adherence to scope, deadlines, and agreed-upon objectives, while planning phases by organizing schedules, deliverables, responsibilities, dependencies, and tracking milestones. **Client and Requirements Management:** Establish close relationships with clients to understand their needs, requirements, priorities, and expectations, translating them into clear objectives, tasks, and acceptance criteria for internal teams. **Backlog and Sprint Management:** Organize and prioritize the backlog, distribute requests among teams, and structure work cycles or sprints using methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum, or hybrid models. **Monitoring and Optimization:** Monitor activity execution to ensure clarity on responsibilities, while optimizing team allocation according to priorities, professionals' availability, and project needs. **Scope and Budget Monitoring:** Track contracted, consumed, and forecasted hours, anticipating overage risks and proposing adjustments, while managing scope by identifying additional requests so changes can be estimated, formalized, and approved. **Risk and Impediment Management:** Identify, analyze, and monitor risks, impediments, dependencies, and opportunities, performing necessary escalations and collaborating with teams and leadership to resolve issues. **Communication and Alignment:** Conduct and document kick-offs, progress meetings, internal alignment sessions, and checkpoints, keeping all stakeholders updated on status, deadlines, pending items, and decisions. **Quality Assurance and Acceptance (QA):** Ensure all deliverables meet BASE's excellence standards by performing validations, functional testing, quality reviews (QA), overseeing adjustments, and guaranteeing the final product meets client expectations. **Launch and Transition:** Coordinate releases, go-lives, stabilization periods, and project handover to support or operations, ensuring required content, access credentials, and resources are delivered on schedule. **Documentation and Tools:** Maintain up-to-date plans, schedules, decision logs, reports, and meeting minutes using management tools to track tasks, hours, deadlines, risks, and progress. **Integrated and Operational Work:** Collaborate with the team on activities complementary to management, such as functional documentation, content architecture organization, page registration, and validation for publication. **Management and Continuous Improvement:** Support demand prioritization considering impact, effort, risks, and strategic objectives, contributing to the evolution of processes, methodologies, metrics, and deliverables within the area. **Market Updates:** Stay current on search engine changes, artificial intelligence, user behavior, and digital market trends. **\# Requirements and Technical Qualifications** To ensure a successful partnership, we seek a candidate with: **Solid Experience:** Proven experience managing digital projects and web development teams, mastering all project stages—from planning through launch and ongoing support. **Business Acumen:** Exceptional organizational skills and strong capability to manage multiple projects, simultaneous demands, scope, deadlines, hours, priorities, and acceptance criteria. **In-Depth Technical Knowledge:** Experience organizing backlogs and sprints, applying agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, hybrids), and identifying development risks, impediments, and dependencies. **Architecture and Structure:** Ability to work with functional documentation, content architecture organization, delivery validation processes for publication, and QA stages. **Management Tools:** Proficiency with tools such as ActiveCollab, ClickUp, Jira, Trello, or similar for tracking tasks, hours, deadlines, responsibilities, and progress. **\# Behavioral Skills (Soft Skills):** Clear, concise, and respectful communication, with confidence to lead meetings with clients and internal teams. Organization, autonomy, proactivity, critical thinking, and commitment to deadlines and deliverables. Maturity to handle change, conflict, high-pressure situations, and confidence to make challenging decisions. Collaborative attitude, ease working across departments, leading multidisciplinary teams, and openness to giving and receiving feedback. Ability to influence and mobilize people (even without formal leadership authority) and transfer knowledge to the team. **Adaptability:** Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and Project Management (PM) practices. ### **Employment Type:** Individual Contractor (PJ) ### **Benefits:** Day off, Educational Grants, Extended Maternity Leave, Extended Paternity Leave, Equipment Allowance, Gympass ### **Department:** Portal Projects