Freelance Senior Project Manager
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Freelance Senior Project Manager to join one of our most high-profile, long-standing client partnerships. This is a globally recognized brand with an enormous consumer footprint, and we have been entrusted with the full lifecycle delivery of one of their most significant consumer-facing digital products.
Requirements
- Lead day-to-day project management across a complex digital product engagement, ensuring clarity of priorities, timelines, deliverables, and accountability across all workstreams
- Serve as the central point of coordination between internal AKQA teams (strategy, UX, design, technology) and client stakeholders
- Manage project schedules, milestones, and dependencies with meticulous detail, proactively identifying risks and driving timely resolution
- Oversee scope management and change control, partnering with discipline leads to assess impact and maintain alignment on approved work
- Support resourcing coordination, ensuring the right people are engaged at the right time across the project lifecycle
- Facilitate regular project ceremonies and working sessions, keeping teams aligned and focused on outcomes
- Maintain clear and consistent project documentation (status reports, RAID logs, decision logs, meeting notes) that keep all stakeholders informed
- Partner with the client to manage expectations, communicate progress, and navigate complexity with composure and clarity
- Ensure delivery processes align with agile, waterfall, or hybrid methodologies as required by the engagement
- Contribute to continuously improving delivery practices and ways of working within the project and broader team
Qualities and Characteristics
- 5+ years of project management experience within a digital agency or product delivery environment, with a strong emphasis on digital products and services
- Proven ability to manage complex, multi-workstream engagements with overlapping timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder groups
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong instincts for anticipating issues before they escalate
- A clear, confident communicator with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfortable working independently and proactively in a fast-paced, remote environment
- Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, or similar)
- Collaborative and solutions-oriented, with a team-first approach and a commitment to quality delivery
About the Role
This is a meaningful, high-visibility engagement where strong project leadership directly impacts millions of people. West Coast residence required. Travel to client site in Seattle monthly is required. July 7, 2026 – October 2, 2026 40 hours/week Expected compensation: $2,250-$2,600
Company Information
We are part of WPP, the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.