WEB PROJECT LEAD - Australian Company - Remote Work

WEB PROJECT LEAD

Full-time remote, from the Philippines. Melbourne business hours. Above-market pay. Long-term. Direct to the agency director.

A three-in-one role: lead the design, lead the client, lead the delivery.

This is a senior, design-led seat inside an established Australian digital agency — the person every web project flows through. You'll work directly with the agency director, run client conversations yourself, design the solution in Figma, and manage the offshore dev team to ship it. Real ownership, real variety, and a clear path to grow as the agency's web pipeline scales.


Why this role

You'll work directly with the agency director. No middle manager. Your work is seen and your judgement is trusted from day one.

A real seat at an established agency. A growing Australian digital agency with a real client book — you'll work across multiple Australian SMEs, not stuck on one account.

Design-led, not template work. You design the solution in Figma. You're not building someone else's mockups.

Above-market pay, reliably on time. This is not a budget hire.

Long-term and stable. Full-time, ongoing, with a clear path to senior or lead roles as the web team grows.

Variety of clients and industries. Multiple parallel projects, varied verticals, real briefs — your folio will get better fast.

A small, high-trust team. Agency director, art director, copy and SEO specialists, an offshore dev team — all in regular contact. No layers, no committees.


About the role

The Web Project Lead owns the front half of every web project — from initial client brief through design, scoping, and managed delivery. The role is client-facing and design-led. You are not a production developer; you design the solution, specify the build, and manage the development team to deliver it on time, on scope, and to the quality the agency director and the client expect.

This role replaces the breadth of client-and-build coordination currently absorbed by senior internal staff, creating dedicated capacity for the agency to scale its web pipeline.


The team you'll work with

You'll sit alongside the agency director (who handles sales and overall direction), the agency's art director (brand and visual identity work), copy and SEO specialists, and an offshore development team that you'll brief and run. A small, capable group with a real Melbourne presence — and you as the design-and-delivery lead on every web build.


What you'll do

Client engagement. Run client discovery calls — understand the business, audience, goals, and brief. Translate client conversations into clear written scopes: in-scope, out-of-scope, success criteria. Present design concepts, scopes, and quotations to clients and manage feedback cycles. Hold client sign-off at each stage. Be the primary client point of contact for the duration of the engagement.

Strategy and direction. Analyse client business objectives, audience, and current digital performance. Develop recommendations that address the client's underlying business needs, not solely the stated brief. Translate commercial goals into measurable web outcomes — conversion priorities, success metrics. Advise on scope, sequencing, and phasing.

Design. Produce wireframes and full page designs in Figma (or Moqups / Adobe XD) for client review. Brief and direct the agency's art director where brand-level visual work is required, including critiquing their output. Make pragmatic design decisions and defend them with clients. Maintain visual quality across all deliverables.

Solution and scope. Recommend the right technology stack for each project (WordPress, headless, React/Next, e-commerce platforms, hosting) and explain trade-offs. Produce technical briefs and quotation-grade scopes. Identify integration and downstream-specialist needs (SEO, copy, hosting) and coordinate handover.

Delivery management. Brief the development team, break work into tickets, and run delivery. Track progress, manage budgets, unblock the team, protect client deadlines. Run QA across browsers and devices and approve work before client release. Coordinate with copy, SEO, and project teams via the agency's collaboration tools.


What we're looking for

We're hiring for design judgement, client poise, and delivery discipline — not a rigid checklist. If most of the below describes you, please apply.

4+ years in a digital agency or web studio, with at least 2 years client-facing.

Excellent spoken and written English, confident presenting and handling pushback on video calls with Australian SME owners and senior marketers.

Demonstrated web design capability — Figma (or equivalent) wireframes, page layouts, responsive design, design critique.

Working understanding of how modern websites are built — sufficient to specify the right approach, brief developers, and identify substandard build work.

Proven project management discipline — schedules, tickets, budget tracking, status reporting.

Track record of running multiple web projects in parallel and delivering on time.

Reliable home internet and a dedicated, professional home workspace.

Nice to have (not required): Figma component / design-system experience; managing offshore development teams across time zones; WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, or headless CMS; web performance, accessibility (WCAG), SEO, Core Web Vitals; Slack, Jira / Zoho Projects / ClickUp, Loom, Notion; read-level HTML and CSS.

Out of scope: hands-on production development (handled by the offshore dev team), brand and graphic design (handled by the art director), sales and new business (handled by the agency director).


Who you are

You're a designer at heart who also runs the room. You can sit in a discovery call with an Australian SME owner, draw the right questions out of them, and walk out with a brief you can actually design against. You take pride in clean Figma files, considered typography, and pages that convert. You like running a small dev team — briefing clearly, QAing properly, protecting deadlines. And you'd rather have a long-term seat at a respected agency than bounce between freelance gigs.

If that sounds like you, we'd love to meet you.


How to Apply

Apply directly via OJP. Attach:

1. Your resume (PDF).
2. Your portfolio — link or PDF. We want to see web work you designed, not just managed. If you can show one project end-to-end (the original client brief, your Figma wireframes, the final designed page, and the live URL), that's exactly what we're looking for. Applications without visual design work will not be progressed.

In your application message, answer these three questions. Short, direct answers — no AI fluff.

1. One project, end-to-end. Pick one site from your portfolio. Tell us the client's business goal, how you got from the discovery call to the design, one design decision you had to defend, and what the site actually delivered for them.

2. Managing a dev team you didn't hire. Walk us through how you brief offshore developers — what your tickets/specs look like, how you QA before client release, and what you do when a developer slips and a client deadline is at risk.

3. Logistics. Expected full-time monthly salary in PHP, earliest start date, and confirm you can work Melbourne business hours (Mon–Fri) and run client video calls in clear spoken English.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Strong fits go to a 45-minute video interview.