Principal Project Manager (B2B) - Donut Studios

About the role

At New Engen, we help brands grow, not just bigger, but smarter. We’re a digital marketing agency that drives meaningful impact across the entire customer journey by integrating media, creative, analytics, influencer, and retail strategies into performance-driven campaigns. Donut Studios is our in-house creative studio, purpose-built to craft high-performing, platform-native, and digital content for the world’s most ambitious brands. As a key part of New Engen’s suite of specialized solutions, alongside offerings like the Acorn Creator Suite — Donut Studios helps unlock breakthrough creative that drives results, fast. We’re a collaborative group of strategists, content creators, copywriters, editors, designers, account strategists, and more who are all in on helping brands, and each other, thrive. We work hard, stay humble, and build with purpose. New Engen has offices in Seattle, New York, and Northwest Arkansas, and supports a distributed team of remote employees across the country. We currently hire full-time employees in the following states: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

Responsibilities

• Keep Projects Moving: Manage day-to-day project timelines, task tracking, and creative workflows using Workfront, Asana, and Notion ensuring deliverables stay on schedule from brief through final delivery.
• Run an Agile Operating Cadence: Participate in or run sprint ceremonies, manage backlogs, and adapt scope in short, iterative cycles (e.g., two-day turnarounds for embedded/quick-turn work, two-week sprints for always-on support).
• Drive Clear, Two-Way Communication: Own the cadence of project updates and delivery forecasts; represent the engagement professionally to AWS stakeholders and keep internal teammates aligned.
• Support Creative & Event Delivery: Coordinate creative assignments across the full project lifecycle, including global event delivery across time zones (GMT, EST, APJ), managing tight SLAs and late-breaking content, or supporting on-site production logistics (e.g., re:Invent).
• Own Budget & Reporting: Monitor pod budget and monthly burn-rate reporting; track scope and spend through the PO → IDP → campaign → work-order structure, flagging when net-new work requires an amended work order.
• Stay One Step Ahead: Maintain accurate project trackers, monitor timelines, identify potential risks early, and proactively communicate issues before they impact delivery; own escalation handling for your pod.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with creatives, strategists, and clients to keep everyone aligned on project status, expectations, deliverables, and priorities across a large, cross-functional team.
• Embrace Smarter Ways of Working: Support the implementation of AI-powered workflows, automation, and operational improvements that help teams work more efficiently.
• Solve Problems Every Day: Remove day-to-day project roadblocks, escalate larger issues when needed, and help keep momentum across multiple deliverables and deadlines.
• Grow Your Craft: Work closely with the Senior/Director PM to strengthen your project management skills, complete AWS-specific onboarding (badging, Workfront training), and continue building your operational expertise.

Requirements

• 7+ years of project management or project coordination experience, ideally within a digital marketing agency, creative agency, or fast-paced client services environment.
• Agile project management experience required — hands-on familiarity with Scrum/Kanban ceremonies (standups, sprint planning, backlog management) and comfort operating in short, iterative cycles.
• Strong client and internal communication skills — able to represent the engagement professionally to enterprise client stakeholders, while also keeping internal cross-functional teams clearly informed and