Creative Project Manager - REMOTE | supporting EST hours

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end execution of creative projects, from kickoff through delivery.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, approvals, and stakeholder touchpoints.
• Lead status meetings, drive decisions, document next steps, and ensure clear accountability across teams.
• Proactively identify risks, dependencies, resource constraints, scope changes, and decision-making needs; troubleshoot issues and adjust plans to keep work moving forward.
• Lead project close-out activities, including retrospectives, to capture learnings and inform future work.
• Partner closely with Creative Account Leads on larger strategic initiatives, supporting intake, planning, prioritization, coordination, and execution.
• Translate creative briefs, business objectives, and strategic direction into clear, actionable workplans for creative and delivery teams.
• Provide concise visibility into project status, decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and escalation needs to support informed decision-making.
• Lead execution of tactical, production, and delivery-focused projects where a Creative Account Lead is not assigned.
• Apply sound judgment and business fluency to guide day-to-day decisions, resolve issues, and keep stakeholders aligned.
• Ensure work remains aligned to goals, messaging, brand standards, compliance needs, and channel requirements, escalating when needed.
• Cook up execution across creative, content, digital, social, email, production, paid media, compliance, legal, business partners, and external vendors.
• Partner with internal media teams to manage creative delivery timelines, specifications, versioning, approvals, trafficking needs, and final handoffs for paid channels.
• Create and maintain campaign workspaces, status trackers, and collaboration tools that support planning, visibility, and team accountability.
• Ensure deliverables across channels are aligned, properly sequenced, approved, and ready for launch or handoff.
• Monitor project health across scope, timing, resourcing assumptions, stakeholder readiness, approvals, and risk.
• Use insights from retrospectives, debriefs, and lessons learned to improve planning, execution, stakeholder engagement, and team effectiveness over time.

Required Skills

• 8+ years of creative project management experience in an in-house agency, external creative agency, marketing organization, or similarly complex delivery environment.
• Workfront experience a plus.
• Proven ability to manage integrated creative work across multiple channels, including paid and organic social, email, digital, video, print, landing pages, and customer communications.
• Experience supporting marketing, creative, digital, paid media, or customer communications programs, including creative versioning, specifications, approvals, and handoffs.
• Strong organizational, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to lead projects independently and influence without authority.
• Ability to balance structure with flexibility in a fast-paced, evolving environment with competing priorities and changing requirements.
• Comfort partnering with account, strategy, creative, media, digital, compliance, legal, business, and external vendor teams.
• Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with strong ownership, judgment, attention to detail, and follow-through.

Preferred Skills

• Workfront experience.
• Experience in financial services, insurance, healthcare, or other regulated industries.
• Business-to-consumer (B2C) experience.
• Business-to-business (B2B) experience.

Qualifications

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc. (SGA) is searching for a Creative Project Manager for a contract/right to hire assignment with one of our premier Insurance clients in New York City, Hudson Yards. This is a remote role working East Coast hours.

Benefits

SGA is a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work.

Pay

N/A

Schedule

TBD