Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Take initiative and ownership of projects of varying scale, collaborating with both internal and external partners to drive progress with proactive solutions
• Partner with Account and Resource Management at project kickoff to define the project scope - including hours, team, timeline, and budget - and monitor progress throughout to ensure on-time delivery and financial health
• Act as a central source of truth for the project, recognizing when things are unclear and helping teams realign around goals and next steps
• Oversee progress across multiple other projects, supporting junior staff to meet objectives and maintain agency and client standards
• Partner with Program Management and client leads to write and rollout processes, then ensure those processes are communicated clearly and adopted by teams
• Anticipate and track risks across all factors (team, finances, timeline, etc.) and escalate to internal and external stakeholders as needed, while recommending ways to mitigate those risks
• Facilitate cross-functional communication to ensure subject matter experts and senior leadership are brought in at key strategic moments
• Manage projects in all agency tools including our project management tool as well as Slack and G-Suite
• Support the development of junior project management and “hybrid” staff through training, mentorship, and (when possible) direct management

Requirements

• 6+ years of project management experience, specifically in advertising or marketing and ideally live-action campaign production
• Comfort working independently as a self-starter but also leading project teams
• Ability to think critically and find creative solutions to project challenges, rather than just executing pre-defined timelines