Associate Project Management Director

What You'll Do

• Project Leadership: Lead highly visible and complex projects requiring unique technology, processes, or workflows. Develop timelines, estimates, and scenarios as needed. Monitor and adjust workflows and resources to optimize project efficiency.
• Team Oversight: Supervise Associate Project Managers (APMs) on routing, approval processes, and documentation of client changes and requests. Escalate issues to the Project Director as necessary.
• Budget and Timeline Management: Manage project budgets and timelines rigorously to ensure projects stay within budget. Monitor scope progress, identify work breakdowns, and proactively estimate for project changes. Communicate overages to internal and client teams.
• Client and Partner Engagement: Lead discussions with clients, partner agencies, and third parties on project deliverables, contingencies, and implications of scope changes. Provide insights and information related to project estimates and overarching budgets.
• Reporting and Documentation: Develop and review conference reports and meeting recaps internally and externally. Lead all project close-out meetings, communicate action items, and provide recommendations for future project optimization.
• Risk Management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks for assigned accounts. Collaborate with Account, Creative, and other departments on project-related escalations.
• SOW Development: Collaborate with PM leadership to develop annual Statements of Work (SOWs) from a project management perspective. Identify assets, dependencies, resources, costs, and timelines needed for project execution.
• Financial Oversight: Oversee client financial reporting and brand health, including monthly billing summaries and financial analysis. Provide internal financial updates to leadership as required.
• Technology Utilization: Leverage Project Management Software (e.g., Workamajig, Workfront, Excel) to automate tasks, ensure quality, and promote process efficiencies. Ensure consistent adoption within the PM team.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Lead internal cross-functional status meetings and provide project management insights to clients as needed on scopes and individual projects.
• New Business Participation: Participate in new business efforts as needed, including developing proposed SOWs, timing, estimates, and presenting to clients.

Team Management and Mentorship

• Lead by Example: Be proactive, solution-oriented, and a curious learner.
• Team Management: Manage the entire employee lifecycle for APMs, including recruiting, onboarding, training, development, and performance reviews. Proactively address team HR needs and escalate issues as required.
• Hire, Coach, and Develop Team Members: Assign projects to balance workloads and challenge team members' skills, ensuring projects showcase the agency's capabilities.
• Provide Regular Feedback: Offer both formal and informal feedback to team members to help grow their creative sensibilities and progress in their craft.
• Perform Team Evaluations: Participate in performance reviews and provide coaching to create growth plans for team members as needed.
• Infuse Psychological Safety into Teams: Facilitate participation, inclusion, and diversity of perspectives on your team and throughout the agency.

Benefits and Perks

• Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
• 401k with Company match of 50% on the first 6%
• Adoption Assistance – Up to $2,500 of financial assistance
• Company Paid Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Short-Term Disability providing 100% of salary coverage
• Paid Parental Leave for birth and non-birth parents (4 weeks)
• Summer Fridays
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• 11 Holidays and End of Year Office Closure
• Company provided Learning and Development opportunities
• Free lunch Wednesdays
• Wellness Program

Compensation Range

Compensation Range: $115,000 - $135,000. The starting salary offer will depend on the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. The company reserves the right to adjust this pay range at any time.