The Associate Director of Project Management is one of the most capable individual contributors on the PM team. They lead the agency’s highest-complexity accounts and engagements while also shaping how project management is practiced across the department.

This role is for someone who thinks like a director but thrives in the work itself: a trusted partner to creative, account, and production leadership, an informal anchor for the PM team, and a stabilizing force when engagements get hard. No direct reports, but real authority and influence.

What You’ll Do:

• Own delivery of the agency’s most complex, high-stakes engagements, including multi-brand, multi-market, and multi-vendor work that demands both strategic thinking and hands-on execution
• Act as a joint decision-maker with Account, Creative, and Production leadership when scope, resourcing, or workflow calls need to be made
• Serve as the go-to recovery resource when projects get into trouble, diagnosing the issue, stabilizing the team, and establishing a clear path forward
• Manage senior client relationships independently, presenting project POVs, navigating scope conversations, and earning trust beyond the account team
• Provide project-level coaching and guidance to Senior and Mid-level PMs on active work, offering real-time craft mentorship without formal management responsibility
• Own at least one PM practice area for the department, such as Workfront standards, onboarding frameworks, or production playbooks
• Communicate risk with authority, empowered to act rather than just escalate, while keeping leadership informed and timelines protected
• Create and maintain project schedules, budgets, and documentation with a high degree of accuracy in Workfront

What You Need to Succeed:

• 8–10+ years in project management in a creative/marketing agency setting
• A track record of owning complex, high-visibility work from kickoff to completion, independently and with confidence
• Deep fluency in creative and production workflows across channels: digital, video, social, print, and experiential
• Strong executive presence and the credibility to lead senior client and internal conversations without relying on a director as a backstop
• High comfort with ambiguity and the ability to establish structure where none exists
• Natural tendency to mentor and elevate the people around you, even without formal authority
• Workfront expertise required; power-user knowledge and ability to advise others on best practices