Creative Project Manager

About the role

The Creative Project Manager role is hybrid, requiring a minimum of 2 days/week reporting on-site to one of the following office locations: New York City, Boston, or Austin, TX.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the creative team, overseeing projects from planning through delivery.
• Advocate for the creative team and remove obstacles.
• Spearhead process improvements and find solutions that accommodate all team members.
• Create and manage the creative timeline, ensuring all milestones are met.
• Proactively flag potential threats to deadlines and work collaboratively with the team to find resolutions.
• Manage all creative requests, working with the creative lead to confirm necessary deliverables, assets, and information.
• Collaborate with creative resourcing for program staffing and identify when additional resources are needed.
• Support the creative lead with scoping during the planning phase of all projects, including involvement in the PM grid process.
• Manage hours for your creative team in Deltek and work closely with Account Operations to resolve any inaccuracies.
• Schedule and lead creative status meetings, organize creative team check-ins, and take notes to ensure alignment on next steps.
• Set up and maintain creative folders and Slack channels for your assigned programs.

Requirements

• Experience working in Creative Operations or as a Creative Project Manager.
• Attention to detail and problem-solving abilities in a creative capacity.
• Experience juggling multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Experience supporting a team of 5-10 creatives.
• Experience with project management software.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new tools and processes.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to “speak the language” of other departments.
• Comfortable presenting to people in leadership positions.
• Passion for going above and beyond.
• Experience working on large scale events or conferences.
• Experience creating and owning timelines.
• Experience quickly adapting when problems arise during a project.
• Experience with Google Suite.
• Experience in ClickUp or Monday (a plus).
• Confidence pushing back when the team is not receiving the information they need.
• Ability to think big picture and distill it down into actionable plans.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
• Always thinking proactively.

Competencies

• Urgency - Decisive, responsive, and fast acting.
• Communication - Easily convey and sell ideas, articulate ideas clearly, and maintain a positive image for GPJ.
• Creative Innovation - Idea-driven, drives new creative methods, products, procedures, or technologies.
• Flexibility - Easily move on to new tasks with little to no notice, put personal preferences aside, and switch strategies without panicking.
• Prioritization/Organization - Properly allocate time and resources to complete jobs within a defined timeframe, establish reasonable timelines for completion.

Your Experience

• 3-5 years of previous industry/agency experience.
• 4 years college degree, preferred in Marketing/Advertising/Event Management/Business Administration, Hospitality, Communications, or related field.
• Ability to travel 10%.
• Ability to work irregular hours in addition to normal business hours, including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Your Impact

In your role, you will have influence and responsibility over: Creative & Strategy, Resource Management, Scoping, Fabrication & Graphics, Management, Timeline Management, Change Order Management, Post Program Analysis.

Pay

Salary Range: $75k - $90k
Salary is dependent on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) experience, skills, and location.

About GPJ

We are the world leader in experiential marketing with 29 global offices. We are part of the Project Worldwide family. An independent, employee-owned global network of complementary, wholly owned agencies. We have an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – providing our employees with an ownership interest. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected class.