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: <25%
What You’ll Do
Manage 4–6 active projects with Energy & Utilities clients, with the goal of increasing account footprint through monthly recurring revenue and delivery.
Own end-to-end delivery for multiple client accounts, balancing scope, resourcing, delivery quality, and industry-specific regulatory and operational considerations.
Align clients, creative teams, engineering around clear scope, timelines, resourcing decisions, and delivery constraints common in Energy & Utilities environments.
Partner closely with engineering to plan work, estimate effort, and ensure teams are appropriately staffed and aligned, accounting for system dependencies, reliability requirements, and regulatory timelines.
Plan, organize, monitor, and control projects using appropriate tools and techniques to ensure the project team adheres to project requirements, regulatory standards, and operational expectations.
Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all stakeholders, including operational, compliance, or regulatory partners and ensuring technical and operational feasibility.
Develop and maintain a project plan, which outlines a project's tasks, milestone dates, status, costs, and allocation of resources to stakeholders and other interested parties.
Monitor scope creep and convert changes into billable change requests when possible, particularly as requirements evolve due to regulatory, operational, or safety considerations.
Accurately book and forecast required staff across creative and engineering teams; monitor utilization, burn, and delivery health in complex, reliability-critical client environments.
Track and roll up key information that allows leadership to understand the health of each project, including:
Profit & Loss
Schedule
NPS Survey Scores
Customer Issues or Escalations
Delivery team utilization percentage
Project Risk
Anticipate delivery risks and resolve issues such as regulatory delays, system dependencies, vendor coordination, or operational constraints before they impact milestones, budgets, or client trust.
Lead internal and external meetings to drive alignment, accountability, and forward progress
Support long-term account health by delivering consistently and identifying opportunities to expand ongoing or recurring work in long-term, trust-based Energy & Utilities client relationships.
Conduct project reviews and lessons learned to improve future delivery, particularly in regulated, infrastructure driven, or operationally complex engagements.
Understand business requirements to provide guidance to the team to capture and document the requirements
Understand how to manage and track budgets across the portfolio so you can allocate funds appropriately to achieve project objectives
Provide revenue forecast for your assigned projects/accounts
Facilitate Business Reviews with clients on a quarterly or semi-annual basis
Required Qualifications
8+ years of project management experience in client-facing environments, including work in Energy, Utilities, Infrastructure, Industrial, Government, or similarly regulated industries.
Proven ability to own end-to-end delivery across cross-functional teams
Working knowledge of planning, estimation, and resourcing for technical, digital, data, or platform based work delivered in regulated or operationally critical environments.
Experience managing scope, timelines, and budgets with accountability for outcomes, including navigating regulatory requirements, approval cycles, operational dependencies, or safety-related constraints.
Excellent organizational skills including the ability to manage multiple projects at once
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Able to demonstrate confidence when working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Passion for superb customer experience
Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or equivalent professional experience
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail, particularly in delivery, risk, and compliance-sensitive work.
Experience delivering web, application, data, or platform-based projects, including systems that support operational workflows, infrastructure visibility, or mission-critical services.
Background in an agency or consulting environment
Familiarity with agile or sprint-based delivery with the ability to adapt delivery approaches to regulatory, infrastructure, or operational constraints.
Experience managing multiple concurrent projects or accounts
Experience managing client-facing projects with a focus on creative or web development projects
PMP certified
Nice to Have
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 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!
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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