Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead Integrated Performance Marketing Initiatives: Oversee projects from initial brief through execution, managing integrated workstreams across paid social, paid search, programmatic, display, digital media, and creative development.
• Manage Scopes, Timelines & Schedules: Produce flexible scopes of work, estimates, and agile project timelines that accommodate both planned brand campaigns and high-speed reactive workstreams while maintaining budget efficiency and client expectations.
• Serve as Client & Team Liaison: Co-lead day-to-day external client communications alongside internal account and creative teams to align on rapid briefs, secure fast-track approvals, and maintain transparency throughout hyper-fast turnarounds.
• Own Project Communication & Status: Lead internal project communication and facilitate regular status meetings, providing clear visibility into project progress, milestones, deliverables, outstanding decisions, and potential roadblocks.
• Proactive Risk & Scope Management: Anticipate production hurdles, manage quick-turn scope changes, and actively mitigate risks associated with fast-paced social deployments to ensure brand safety and quality compliance.
• Manage Campaign Execution & Deliverables: Ensure all campaign components are progressing according to plan, including creative development, media assets, trafficking requirements, campaign launches, optimizations, and reporting deliverables.
• Drive Best Practices & Standards: Foster agile collaboration, key takeaways, and streamlined production processes between social strategists, creators, and practice teams to optimize the agency's real-time creative model
• Monitor Project Health & Reporting: Prepare and analyze project status reports, budgets, timelines, and resource plans, proactively communicating relevant updates and recommendations to leadership and project stakeholders.

Requirements

• Hybrid Schedule: Able to work in our downtown Houston office on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• 5+ years of project management experience in an advertising, creative, digital, or integrated marketing agency.
• Proven track record in integrated or performance marketing: Understanding of paid media and digital marketing ecosystems, including paid social, paid search, programmatic, display, and other digital advertising channels.
• Integrated campaign management: Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional campaigns that bring together media, creative, strategy, analytics, and other marketing disciplines.
• Cross-functional leadership: Ability to lead multiple teams and stakeholders, establish clear accountability, and drive projects forward without direct authority.
• Budget and scope management: Experience developing estimates, managing project budgets, tracking resource utilization, and navigating scope changes.
• Strong client and team communication: Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to lead conversations, manage expectations, and escalate challenges.
• Problem-solving mindset: Ability to anticipate challenges, manage competing priorities, and develop solutions in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Software proficiency: Proficiency in Adobe Workfront (or equivalent agile PM tools) and Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Schedule flexibility: Ability to work Eastern Time zone hours to overlap with key clients and respond to real-time social moments.

Benefits

• For this role, Benefits include: health/dental/vision insurance, matching 401(k), FSA and HSA accounts, paid time off, sick time, paid parental leave, paid medical leave, STD/LTD insurance benefits, and generous holiday calendar.