At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead Shopify projects from client discussions to successful launches.
- Company: Join a dynamic digital growth agency with a collaborative spirit.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, flexible work environment, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Fast-paced environment with multiple projects and excellent career advancement potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by managing innovative projects and working directly with clients.
- Qualifications: Experience with Shopify projects and strong team management skills.
The predicted salary is between 72000 - 88000 $ per year.
At elk Marketing, we’re looking for a Development Project Manager to own Shopify development projects from initial client conversations through launch. You’ll sit at the intersection of our clients and a team of 10 developers, designers, and data contractors, translating business needs into clear scopes, actionable plans, and high-quality deliverables. This isn’t a ticket-management role. You’ll work directly with clients to understand what they need, partner with technical teams to determine how to build it, and take ownership of timelines, quality, and delivery. You should be comfortable making decisions, solving problems without a predefined playbook, and keeping multiple projects moving at once.
What You Would Own
- Project intake - talk with the client about design ideas, content and requirements. Everything from a single landing page to a full site rebuild. Then, carry what they need to the design team and bring the feedback back.
- Scopes + estimates - build project scopes and cost estimates off our existing templates.
- The custom stuff - some projects do not have a defined process. You figure out who needs to be in the room, define the problem, and build the plan.
- QA - review work from the dev team before it goes to the client. If it is not right, it does not go out.
- Client comms - email, Slack and live on calls. Requirements, feedback, approvals.
What Is On Our Board Right Now
- Shopify theme upgrades
- Custom Shopify app builds
- Shopify site design + Liquid build
- Shopify Hydrogen headless development
- Ongoing Shopify updates for landing page builds and SEO work
- Custom conversion tracking + reporting solutions
What We Need You To Have
- Deep experience with enterprise-level Shopify projects. Themes, settings, the APP ecosystem, and how the whole thing fits together.
- Experience managing a team of developers and talking to clients directly, not through an account manager.
- Very comfortable in Asana. We run everything through it.
- Helpful, not required: Product feeds. Building feed connections into Google Merchant Center and META Ads. Conversion tracking. Getting ecommerce and B2B tracking working again when it breaks.
What Is Hard About This Job
- You will be holding 8 to 13 projects at once. Context switching is the job, not a distraction from it.
- Some of the work has no playbook. A client asks for something nobody has built before and you go define it.
- Launch days are launch days. Things break, and you are the one the client is talking to.
- You sit between the dev team and the client, which means you are the person saying 'this needs another week' to one side and 'we can't release on the LIVE theme today' to the other.
- This is a pace job, not a sprint job. The projects that go well are the ones where somebody kept moving for eight weeks straight, not the ones that got rescued by a heroic weekend.
If that sounds like a good week, we should talk.
ABOUT Elk MARKETING
elk Marketing is a digital growth agency founded in 2016, with more than 40 core team members. We partner with brands to drive growth through SEO, AI search, paid media, content, creative strategy, and web development. Our clients range from growing ecommerce businesses to enterprise brands, including TaylorMade and HexClad. We bring strategy, creativity, and technical execution together to help our clients grow—and we’re looking for people who take pride in delivering meaningful results.
Development Project Manager in Montréal employer: Elk Marketing
At elk Marketing, we pride ourselves on fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment where creativity meets technical expertise. As a Development Project Manager, you'll have the opportunity to lead diverse Shopify projects while working alongside a talented team dedicated to delivering exceptional results for our clients. With a strong emphasis on employee growth and a culture that values innovation, elk Marketing is an excellent employer for those seeking meaningful and rewarding career opportunities in the heart of the digital marketing landscape.
