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.