Project Manager

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

Own end-to-end project operations across multi-channel production, ensuring on-time delivery and strict budgeting with clear sign-off at each stage.

  • Project execution & governance: drive timelines, scope, and SOWs, aligning internal and client approvals.
  • Resource & financial management: monitor burn, cost overruns, and profitability; manage budgets and timesheets.
  • Cross-channel production: coordinate social/editorial content, influencer work, events, and video through agency and vendor teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Taking ownership of projects and see them through to completion
  • Creating timelines, booking and managing resources and ensuring that agency resources are used efficiently
  • Scoping jobs and crafting statements of work
  • Track account health. This includes monitoring project progress, burn rate, budget management, third party and freelance team management and developing plans to course correct the team as needed.
  • Managing budgets and reconciling each phase of the job
  • Managing work across various social platforms including social and editorial content, influencer work, events, video production etc.
  • Ensuring all work is signed off at the right stages, by the right people; both internal sign-off, and client approvals
  • Ensure that all project team members also complete their timesheets in a timely fashion, ensuring accurate project actuals
  • Track profitability of your account - Monitoring project costs and proactively communicate overruns/financial issues to your senior team member in a timely manner

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, advertising, communications, or a related field.
  • 4+ years of experience in project management or a related field, with a focus on operations, team management and project planning.
  • Knowledgeable on social platforms formats and guidelines
  • Familiar with agency turn-around times and ways of working, good understanding of the dynamics of agency processes, and enjoy the pace and challenges this brings
  • Proactive and good at foreseeing problems, with the ability to mitigate issues as soon as they are identified, propose creative solutions, and know when to escalate issues
  • Detail oriented and takes responsibility for fulfilling all components of the project/retainer deliverables
  • Confident and positive with a ‘can-do’ attitude
  • Organized with good attention to detail
  • Strong understanding and experience in managing project financials
  • Highly proficient with Google Suite (Gmail, Doc, Slides, Sheets, Drive, Meet, Chat, Gemini) and Slack. Baseline knowledge of Asana and other PM and A.I. tools and functions. Added plus: Knowledge of Workbook

Preferred

  • Traditional agency experience is not required, but it’s a plus.
We Are Social logo

We Are Social

3.3 Glassdoor

We are a global socially-led creative agency, with unrivaled social media expertise.With over 1,300 people in 19 offices around the world, we deliver a global perspective to our clients in a time when social media is shaping culture.We make ideas worth talking about. We understand social behaviours within online communities, cultures and subcultures, spanning the social and gaming landscape.We work with the world’s biggest brands, including adidas, Samsung, Netflix and Google, to reach the right people in a strategic, relevant and effective way.We Are Social is part of Plus Company.

Founded in 2008
London, England, GBR
1.8K employees (658 in marketing)
51% recommend to a friend
75% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
210.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.6%
Direct
37.2%
Referral
7.3%
Social
1.7%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
415 (23% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
4.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$3.1M
Last Raise
$3.1M
Series A, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2022
    Series A • $3.1M

Recent News