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