Jobs · Information Technology · Illinois

Creative Project Manager

Frey Design · Roselle, IL · 3 days ago
On-siteInformation TechnologyFull-time

Key Responsibilities

  • Own creative, marketing, and web projects from kickoff through delivery, keeping them on time and on budget
  • Act as the primary client contact: set expectations, run status updates, manage scope and revisions, and keep communication moving in both directions
  • Run daily project priorities and keep designers, developers, and marketers unblocked so work keeps moving through the shop
  • Build and manage projects in Asana: timelines, tasks, dependencies, resourcing, and deliverables
  • Track project health across hours, budgets, completion, and timelines, and report clearly on all three
  • Draft and manage proposals, scopes of work, project briefs, and client-facing project tools with fast turnaround
  • Use AI-assisted tools to prepare meeting summaries, task lists, reports, and documentation, then refine outputs to agency standards
  • Follow up relentlessly on open items, approvals, and deliverables so nothing stalls
  • Spot workflow problems early and solve them with practical, creative fixes

Qualifications & Skills

  • 2-4 years of project management experience inside a creative, design, or marketing agency
  • Expert-level Asana user: you have built, managed, and maintained real client projects in it, not just watched a tutorial
  • Working fluency in other agency PM tools such as Monday, Teamwork, Workfront, Jira, or Mavenlink
  • Proven client liaison experience: comfortable being the name and voice clients know
  • Strong command of timelines, budgets, resourcing, and deliverable management, including SOWs and vendor coordination
  • Familiar with web and WordPress projects: CMS work, QA, launches, and coordinating with developers
  • Fluent in how creative teams work: briefs, revisions, Adobe Creative Suite awareness, and print/digital production basics
  • Skilled with spreadsheets and AI-assisted reporting, and sharp at editing AI output for accuracy and clarity
  • Fast, organized, proactive, and comfortable in a high-communication, quick-turnaround environment

Benefits of working at Frey

  • Medical, dental, and vision Insurance
  • 401K with company match
  • Half-day summer Fridays (May through September)
  • Hybrid office setting (in-office four days/week, remote every Friday)
  • 15 days of paid time off (PTO)
  • Paid holiday schedule
  • Full bar with beer on tap at all times
  • Fully stocked kitchen with groceries delivered weekly

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