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# Senior Project Manager, Tech at AIP Connect

- **Company:** AIP Connect
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Compensation:** $120k–$150k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/aipconnect/ea1dd6ff-d36e-4942-a05b-babceb401564

## Job description

Open Vacancy: This role is a current, active position and we are accepting applications.

This agency brings business insights to brand storytelling and activates it across every channel. With expertise in business strategy, media, CRM, addressable and brand communications, performance marketing, and technology, the agency creates integrated marketing systems and communications that grow businesses. Founded in 2014, the agency currently has offices in New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Austin, Denver, Detroit, London, Bengaluru, and Singapore.

Some brands we work with: Chipotle, Hard Rock, and MilkPEP, H&R Block, Dropbox, Hertz and Pella. If you’re driven by a passion to build something great, a desire to innovate, and a commitment to achieve excellence in your craft, this agency is a great place for you.

## About the Role

We’re currently seeking a tech-focused Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of complex digital and marketing technology engagements. This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about digital marketing, thrives in fast-paced environments, and can successfully manage large cross-functional initiatives from initial strategy and creative development through technical execution and final deployment.

The successful candidate will lead multiple integrated digital projects end-to-end. They will bring structure, operational rigor, and delivery discipline to complex programs with competing priorities, evolving requirements, and multiple stakeholder groups.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, execution-oriented, and technically fluent, with strong strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities. They should be comfortable partnering across technical and business teams to proactively manage dependencies, risks, timelines, and delivery outcomes.

## About You

- 8+ years of project management experience delivering digital marketing, technology, or customer experience solutions
- Strong experience managing complex digital and integrated technology projects across multiple workstreams
- Expertise leading projects across the entire technical lifecycle: strategy, creative, technical development, CRM, and production disciplines. You must be a truly integrated partner with a strong technical background.
- Strong understanding of website development, creative development, application development, CRM platforms, email marketing, e-commerce, and digital ecosystem integrations
- Experience managing cross-functional teams in fast-paced environments, including developers, QA, strategists, marketers, creatives, analysts, and production teams
- Proven ability to manage the full project lifecycle, including discovery, requirements gathering, planning, execution, deployment, and ongoing support
- Strong strategic thinking skills with the ability to translate business objectives into scalable delivery plans and execution approaches
- Experience developing integrated project plans, workback schedules, dependency tracking, and risk mitigation strategies
- Understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, sprint planning, backlog management, and software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes
- Ability to identify delivery risks, technical dependencies, operational gaps, and implementation constraints proactively
- Experience supporting technical delivery conversations including APIs, integrations, data flows, QA/UAT, and release coordination
- Strong client management, stakeholder communication, and executive presentation skills
- Ability to provide reporting, performance analysis, and actionable delivery insights to both internal and client stakeholders
- Proven experience managing globally distributed or offshore teams across multiple work streams and time zones, specifically PST, IST, and EST.
- Agile certification is preferred
- Knowledge of Smartsheets, Jira, Figma are a plus

## What You'll Be Doing

Program & Project Delivery:

- Lead delivery of multiple integrated digital and technology projects across strategy, CRM, creative, engineering, and production teams
- Create and manage integrated project plans, timelines, resourcing models, budgets, and delivery roadmaps
- Drive project estimation activities including scope definition, effort sizing, assumptions, dependency mapping, and timeline development
- Partner across technical and business teams to develop strategic delivery approaches aligned to client objectives and platform capabilities
- Manage end-to-end project execution from strategy and creative hand-off, through discovery, requirements, implementation, QA/UAT, launch, and post-launch support.
- Oversee Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog prioritization, retrospectives, and release coordination
- Identify, track, and mitigate project risks, blockers, technical dependencies, and delivery issues across work streams
- Coordinate closely with engineering and technical leads to validate feasibility, implementation plans, and technical requirements
- Support process optimization efforts and continuous improvement initiatives to improve delivery efficiency and team operations
- Develop and maintain project documentation including status reports, RAID logs, timelines, meeting recaps, and executive communications

## Team Leader

- Lead multiple project teams of 5+ contributors across technical, creative, strategy, and production disciplines
- Foster a collaborative, accountable, and solutions-oriented team environment
- Clearly communicate project goals, priorities, timelines, and expectations across internal and client teams
- Drive alignment across stakeholders while balancing competing priorities, timelines, and business needs
- Act as a trusted delivery partner and escalation point for project teams and stakeholders

Client Satisfaction

- Interoffice communications and relationship building are a must
- Build strong client relationships through proactive communication, transparency, and delivery excellence
- Manage client expectations related to scope, timelines, risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes
- Provide regular project updates, status reporting, and strategic recommendations to client stakeholders
- Facilitate working sessions, decision-making discussions, and delivery reviews with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Partner with clients to identify business challenges and work with internal teams to recommend scalable operational or technical solutions aligned to their goals

AIP Connect believes in equal opportunity. Our recruitment consultants are committed to inclusive recruitment and selection practices and will not discriminate based on age, colour, ability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.

Accessibility:  If you need any accommodations during the interview process, please let us know.

Posted Salary: Actual compensation within this range will be determined based on job-related skills, relevant experience, education, and training. This range reflects base salary only and does not include eligibility for bonus program or other benefits.

For the most accurate and up-to-date details on this role, please refer directly to AIP Connect’s careers page, as third-party sites may not reflect current information.

## About AIP Connect

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AIP Connect is a boutique recruitment and staffing agency that connects companies with top talent through a human-centric, high-touch approach.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Founded and bootstrapped by its CEO)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **Founded**: 2006
- **Founders**: Nicol Kalman

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Staffing and Recruiting
- **Target customers**: B2B — primarily mid-to-large enterprises and agencies in sectors like technology, marketing, media, and professional services
- **Mission/purpose statement**: To connect the right people to the right employers with a refreshingly different approach — prioritizing authenticity, transparency, and long-term fit over volume.

## Products & Services
- **Executive Search / Permanent Recruitment**: Full-service headhunting for senior-level and specialized roles across account management, operations, data & analytics, human resources, and media.
- **Temporary Staffing**: Short-term and contract placements for roles needing immediate support, managed by a dedicated AIP Staffing Inc. division under Managing Director Leslie Barrow.
- **Freelance & Contracts**: A curated pipeline for companies needing flexible, project-based talent, ranging from creative to technical fields.
- **General Application & Pipeline**: An open channel for candidates to register interest even when no specific role is listed, allowing AIP to proactively match them to future opportunities.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total headcount of ~29 employees (Year-over-Year growth: +15.4%, adding ~6 people); LinkedIn following of 8,192 (Yearly growth: +8.6%)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Bootstrapped — no external investors; key executives include Nicol Kalman (Founder/CEO), Kristine Sanderson (Partner, CHRL MHRM), Sarah Glynn (Snr. Recruitment Manager), and Leslie Barrow (Managing Director, AIP Staffing).
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring across multiple geographies (Canada and US); 8 office locations; recent job postings for internal roles like Operations Systems Administrator signal internal scaling.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Truly human-centric**: Rejects algorithms and automated matching in favor of in-person briefings and deep conversations — a strong differentiator against large, tech-driven competitors.
- **Full transparency**: Communicates directly about salary, skill gaps, and role realities for both candidates and clients, building trust and reducing mis-hires.
- **Candidate-first philosophy**: Explicitly treats candidates as long-term partners, not commodities, focusing on fair compensation, career progression, and cultural fit.
- **Strong leadership team**: Led by an experienced founder and a team with deep industry knowledge and HR credentials (CHRL).

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth as a "connector" brand**: Emphasizing its role as a community builder that brings like-minded people together, rather than just a transaction facilitator.
- **Operational expansion**: Investing in internal systems and talent (e.g., Operations Systems Administrator) to support scaling across North America while maintaining its high-touch model.
- **AI as a support tool, not a replacement**: Leveraging AI to assist in resume review and candidate assessment, but explicitly keeping final decisions human — a balanced approach to technology.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described internally and externally as "refreshingly different" — values high integrity, openness, and a genuine commitment to people. The team is described as "born connectors."
- **Work environment**: Offers hybrid, remote, and on-site roles depending on the position and location. Geographies include Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, Halifax, Richmond (VA), and New York City.
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: While the company is not a tech product firm, its internal use of AI in the hiring process shows a forward-looking, pragmatic attitude toward technology. The culture prioritizes low-ego, high-trust collaboration. Candidates are respected and never treated as commodities.
- **Alumni network**: Alumni have gone on to reputable firms like Wealthsimple, PwC Canada, Bell Media, and Spencer Stuart, reflecting a strong talent development environment.

## Sources
1. [aipconnect.com/about-us](https://aipconnect.com/about-us/)
2. [jobs.lever.co/aipconnect](https://jobs.lever.co/aipconnect)
3. [linkedin.com/company/anithing-is-possible-recruiting](https://linkedin.com/company/anithing-is-possible-recruiting)
4. [aipconnect.com/team/](https://aipconnect.com/team/)
5. [aipconnect.com/current-roles/](https://aipconnect.com/current-roles/)

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