Marketing Project Manager (Temporary)

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$60/hr – $70/hrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive complex integrated marketing projects from concept through retrospective, coordinating internal teams and external agencies to keep deliverables on track and within scope.

  • Define project scope, timelines, budgets, and approvals with cross-functional partners.
  • Lead kickoffs, stand-ups, reviews, and ongoing communications to ensure quality and on-time delivery.
  • Pilot process improvements and new tools to increase efficiency and consistency.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage complex integrated projects from strategy/ideation through reporting/retrospectives, serving as the primary contact for internal teams and external agencies to ensure all deliverables and components are on track and within scope.
  • Work closely with marketers and other cross-functional partners to define project scope, including objectives, timing, budget (where applicable) and required approvals.
  • Develop and own project timelines.
  • Partner with creative, marketing, media, newsroom and product teams plus external agency partners from the earliest concept stage forward to ensure that the most innovative and effective processes and production methods are employed.
  • Monitor projects, evaluating and reporting progress and quality of work, proactively managing issue resolution, recognizing when things veer off course and escalating to senior management as necessary.
  • Ensure clear and frequent communication throughout project life cycle through use of email/Slack status updates, document sharing, meeting recaps, etc.
  • Facilitate, along with marketer and/or creative team, project kickoffs, creative reviews and work sessions.
  • Lead — and determine the need/cadence of — stand-ups, status check-ins and any other essential project-related recurring meetings.
  • Facilitate postcampaign retrospectives, along with marketer and/or program manager, to ensure continuous improvement for larger scale projects.
  • Research, propose and run small-scale pilots for process improvements, new tools and approaches to project development.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of project management experience managing complex, multichannel marketing campaigns.
  • Background in advertising and PR agencies
  • Experience navigating the dynamics of cross-functional relationships and associated stakeholders both internally and with external partners.
  • Understanding of the creative, production and media process.
  • Understanding of the capabilities and production needs for print, digital, email, social media, video and experiential program components.
  • Familiarity with project management software such as Monday.com

Preferred

  • Familiarity with Coda, JIRA, Fun Retro, Confluence and other PM tool sets.

Benefits

  • For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock.
  • Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.
  • For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.
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New York, New York, USA
102 employees (35 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
713.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
48.1%
Direct
39.3%
Referral
8%
Social
4%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~102

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
27 (26% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
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