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Technical Project Manager

If you love the thrill of co-creating beautiful, accessible, and affirming digital spaces while not actually getting lost in the backend code, you might just be the person we’re looking for. The Abbey is a growing online yoga membership community and yoga school helping people connect with God through movement, meditation, and prayer resources. We’ve outgrown our boot-strapped DIY website and are looking to uplevel our entire online experience from our website, to our membership platform, to our CMS. We need a standout project manager with the technical skills to manage a team of developers, designers, and platform integrators to see this project through to completion and ensure that the finished product best reflects our brand and serves our diverse community.

This is a remote, part-time, short-term position that reports directly to and works closely with our Founder. Depending on workload and project success, there is the potential for long-term employment within the Company. Hours are self-set but you will need to be available during Pacific Time business hours.

We don’t need you to be a web designer, developer, or online marketing expert yourself. But you do need to have a good understanding of how online marketing works, including sales pages, email marketing processes and funnels, lead magnets, opt-in pages, member journey and gamification, etc. (If any of those phrases are brand new to you, this is likely not the perfect position for you.) Your job is to ensure that our brand stays consistent and reliable, from start to finish, with each part of this project.

We’ll be straight with you: This position has high expectations.

But if you’re the person we’re looking for, you’re the type who gets motivated by high expectations.

Duties and Responsibilities

Thinking this gig is tailor-made for you? Read on to learn more.

  • Possess an ability to filter and translate the Founder’s vision and ideas into functional plans for the project, creating detailed project boards and documentation to keep the team on the same page.

  • Work with the Founder on hiring contractors and then managing those contractors from project inception to completion, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery.

  • Work with Web Developer(s) and Designer(s) to manage redesign and rebuild of our website from SquareSpace to WordPress 

  • Hire and manage an Integrations Specialist focused on transitioning our CRM and email marketing platform to Ontraport and AccessAlly. Familiarity with these platforms, or the ability to get up to speed and become familiar with them quickly, is essential.

  • Fiercely defend and advocate for The Abbey’s brand throughout the entire design and development process. It’s the Technical Project Manager’s responsibility to know if the work being delivered by the team is on brand and meets our quality standards.

  • Obsessive about quality control and testing everything, serving as the final check before something goes live.

Position Details

Here’s who this position is NOT for:

  • Those looking for a “side job” while growing their own business.

  • People who have a lot going on already and don’t have the time and focus to really dive in.

  • The people who haven’t read a non-fiction book (or listened to a podcast) about business or marketing in a very long time.

  • Those who aren’t willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

  • Those who prefer to be front-facing in the business.

However, this position is for a person who:

  • Has a sharp eye for user experience and is constantly thinking about how we can serve members and potential members with a rewarding digital experience.

  • Loves translating big vision into all it’s actionable components (and gets giddy about inputting that into a project management system).

  • Is resourceful.

  • Can handle stress and tight deadlines.

  • Works very well with other people and can build rapport quickly with both team members and vendors.

  • Is relentlessly optimistic.

  • Has great attention to detail and brand quality.

  • Is a high-functioning communicator.

  • Dependably demonstrates a relentless obsession with values alignment, focus, organization, simplicity, and clarity.

  • Takes ownership and pride in their work.

  • Is not afraid of new challenges.

  • Loves learning new things and can implement new ideas quickly.

  • Adapts really well to changes on-the-go.

  • Is technologically savvy.

  • Can handle direct & blunt feedback.

  • Can juggle lots of moving pieces while staying collected.

Here’s what the right person will love about this position:

  • You’ll be competitively paid to do what you love: managing the complex production of a streamlined and beautiful digital experience.

  • You’ll get to work in a fast-growing, mission-focused online wellness and training company, where there are loads of growth opportunities.

  • You’ll learn the ins and outs of online membership communities, online marketing, content development, and building a brand with a passionate and loyal audience.

  • You’ll be part of a company that has one main goal: Helping people connect with the peace and presence of God on their yoga mats.

What to learn a little bit more about us? Keep reading! 

What We Do

The Abbey is an online yoga sanctuary for lovers of Jesus longing for wholeness. Through a continually-growing library of yoga videos, meditation recordings, devotional and prayer resources, we help people all over the world embody their faith and find deeper connection with God.
For those wanting to learn how to guide others in this way, we lead a 200hr Yoga Teacher Training program with more advanced trainings in the works.

We align ourselves with the ancient spiritual disciplines of stillness, silence and solitude and believe in the power of yoga to help integrate body, mind, and spirit. 

Meet Caroline, Founder of The Abbey

You might know Caroline from her popular YouTube channel Caroline Williams Yoga where she’s been leading thousands of people into a deeper awareness of the peace and presence of God on the yoga mat since 2015. Building on the enthusiasm from her followers on YouTube, Caroline began leading sold-out international yoga retreats in 2017, founded The Abbey in 2018, and started a yoga teacher training school in 2020. To get to know her in her own words, check her out on Instagram.

Our Team Values

  • Excellence: We love our members well by giving them our absolute best

  • Accessibility + Diversity: Every person, regardless of body shape, age, skin color, geography, church experience, or ability, is welcomed, celebrated, and affirmed

  • Celebration: Because goodness in all around us and we just need to remember

  • Balance: For everything there is a season – rest, hustle, play

  • Stillness, silence and solitude: We embrace these ancient spiritual disciplines as the antidote to the exhaustion and disconnection of modern living

  • Nuance & depth: The mark of an advanced yogi is how curious they are so we strive to ask more questions than settle for easy answers

  • Responsiveness: We always address questions, problems, or compliments. If something is broken, fix it.

  • Whatever It Takes: Resourcefulness

Application Instructions

If you’d like to be considered for this role, please respond to hello@theyogaabbey.com with the following details:

  • Step #1: Take your personality assessment here: www.16personalities.com

  • Step #2: Respond to this post with…

    • Your Assessment results from step #1

    • Your resume

    • 2-3 sentences on why we should hire you

If you want to step into a role with great leadership opportunities, enjoy knowing all the details and have an entrepreneurial spirit, this just might be the role for you!