Jobs · Information Technology · Illinois

Project Manager for Creative and Evergreen Marketing

Topstep · Chicago, IL · 1 mo ago
Information Technology$85k–$120k/yrFull-time

Key Responsibilities

  • Partner with Creative leadership to scope, prioritize, and manage requests.
  • Maintain detailed project schedules to ensure visibility, accountability, and on-time delivery across all creative disciplines.
  • Ensure all deliverables are routed to the appropriate reviewers, including Creative leadership and legal, to uphold quality standards and compliance requirements.
  • Anticipate bandwidth constraints, propose solutions, and escalate resourcing needs when necessary.
  • Proactively mitigate project risks, including scope creep, shifting priorities, and conflicting resource allocation.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for internal stakeholders regarding project timelines and status updates.
  • Organize recurring and ad-hoc meetings for project kickoffs, cross-functional collaboration, and ongoing updates.
  • Collaborate with Senior Management to optimize workflows, elevate project management practices, and implement Creative team best practices.

Evergreen Marketing

  • Own end-to-end GTM/project plans for Evergreen marketing initiatives (brief, timeline, channel plans, progress tracking).
  • Build and maintain project schedules and status reporting (weekly updates, Marketing channel logs).
  • Coordinate stakeholder alignment and approvals (Creative, Growth, Product, Data, Legal/Compliance as needed).
  • Manage asset trafficking: intake, briefs, reviews, version control, and final handoff to channel owners.
  • Ensure campaign readiness: QA checklists, tracking launch comms, and post-launch monitoring.
  • Run recurring stand-ups and status meetings and document decisions/action items in Notion.
  • Maintain campaign documentation (requirements, meeting notes, links to decks, creative, tracking dashboards).
  • Identify risks early and drive mitigation/escalation; remove blockers for owners.

Required Qualifications And Key Competencies

  • 3 + years of project or program management experience, ideally supporting creative, brand, or marketing teams.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, timelines, and stakeholders without losing detail or momentum.
  • Strong working knowledge of project management and collaboration tools (e.g., Notion, Asana, Jira, or similar), with experience maintaining schedules, status reports, and documentation.
  • Experience managing creative and/or marketing workflows, including intake, briefs, reviews, version control, and asset handoff.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to serve as the primary point of contact and translate between creative, technical, and business stakeholders.
  • Comfort partnering with Legal/Compliance to route deliverables for review and uphold quality and compliance standards.
  • Strong risk management instincts: able to anticipate bandwidth constraints, spot scope creep early, and drive mitigation and escalation.
  • Highly organized and proactive, with a bias toward removing blockers and keeping owners moving.

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