Project Manager

About the role

This is a full-time exempt (40+ hours/week), hybrid and travel-light role across assigned marketing projects, campaigns, and cross-functional teams. This contract position pays in the $60–$68/hr range.

Responsibilities

• Develop project plans, budgets, scopes, timelines, deliverables, resource requirements, and project roadmaps while identifying key dependencies.
• Manage timelines, budgets, and resource allocation across multiple simultaneous projects and marketing campaigns.
• Establish and maintain project risk logs, identify potential bottlenecks, resolve project issues, and escalate concerns when appropriate.
• Monitor project performance, quality, delivery metrics, and project health indicators while supporting quality audits and process adherence.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration, negotiate priorities and resource availability, and lead meetings and difficult project conversations.
• Conduct analyses to estimate and track project costs and budgets while managing project change control in accordance with established policies.
• Coordinate cross-channel marketing campaigns involving digital, social, email, events, PR, targeting, business rules, and test-and-learn iterations.
• Maintain accurate and complete project documentation while driving continuous improvement across project delivery processes.

Ideal Candidate

• 5+ years of project management experience with demonstrated success managing multiple simultaneous projects.
• Strong understanding of project planning, budgeting, scope management, scheduling, resource allocation, risk management, and change control.
• Experience managing timelines and dependencies across multiple concurrent marketing projects or campaigns.
• Understanding of the full marketing campaign lifecycle from brief and creative development through production, launch, and measurement.
• Familiarity with cross-channel direct marketing campaigns, including targeting, business rules, and test-and-learn iterations.
• Familiarity with digital, social, email, events, and PR channels and the ability to effectively coordinate stakeholders across these areas.
• Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, prioritization, facilitation, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to work effectively through ambiguity, understand business challenges and trade-offs, and translate requirements into actionable project objectives.

Nice to Have

• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, or a related field.
• PMI or equivalent project management certification.
• Understanding of business process improvement and change management.
• Experience supporting portfolio-level project performance, quality audits, delivery metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Benefits

• Medical Coverage: Two United Healthcare plans (PPO and HDHP with HSA), with employer contributions toward premiums; coverage begins the 1st of the month after 60 days of employment.
• Dental & Vision: United Healthcare dental with 100% preventive care coverage and vision benefits for exams, frames, lenses, or contacts.
• Wellbeing Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offering confidential counseling plus additional wellness and care navigation resources.
• Retirement & Savings: 401(k) eligible after 30 days with automatic 6% enrollment (opt-out available), 1% annual increases up to 10%, plus HSA with up to $480 employer contribution.
• Voluntary Benefits: Employee-paid accident insurance and critical illness coverage for major health events (e.g., cancer, heart attack).