Senior Project Manager (Contract, Immediate Start)

About the role

MATTE is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join the team on a short-term contract, dedicated to a major integrated project spanning creative, content, post-production, and experiential production. This is a fast-moving, highly collaborative engagement with multiple interconnected workstreams and a significant volume of deliverables. The ideal candidate comes from a creative agency, experiential, or integrated production environment and is comfortable managing complex workstreams, senior stakeholders, and aggressive timelines.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day project management across the engagement from onboarding through execution and wrap.
• Build, manage, and continuously update integrated project timelines across Creative, Strategy, Client Services, Content, Post-Production, and Experiential Production.
• Lead project kickoffs, daily status meetings, and cross-functional working sessions.
• Maintain the daily status and hotsheet, clearly communicating assignments, priorities, deadlines, and next steps across the team.
• Track all project deliverables and proactively follow up with team members to ensure on-time completion.
• Identify dependencies, bottlenecks, and project risks early, escalating and problem-solving as needed to protect key deadlines.
• Coordinate closely with internal teams, freelancers, vendors, and external partners to keep all workstreams aligned.
• Support resource planning and flag bandwidth or staffing needs throughout the engagement.
• Maintain clear and organized project documentation, including timelines, status reports, action items, and deliverable trackers.
• Oversee the integration of creative development, content production, post-production, and experiential production timelines to ensure all workstreams remain aligned through final delivery.
• Provide hands-on project leadership during critical execution periods, including weekend work as required to maintain project timelines and delivery.

Requirements

• Senior-level project management experience within a creative agency, experiential agency, production company, or similarly fast-paced environment.
• Experience managing large-scale, integrated projects with multiple simultaneous workstreams.
• Strong understanding of creative and production workflows, ideally spanning creative development, content, post-production, and experiential.
• Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to manage detailed timelines while maintaining visibility across the broader project.
• Confidence leading status meetings, driving next steps, and holding cross-functional teams accountable to deadlines.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across creative, production, strategy, client services, freelancers, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
• Proactive, solutions-oriented approach with the ability to anticipate issues before they impact delivery.
• Ability to jump into a fast-moving project quickly and bring immediate structure, organization, and momentum.

Schedule

Immediate start through September 30, 2026. Full-time availability during the engagement, with flexibility for weekend work as project needs require.

Location

New York, NY, but travel is required.