Senior Project Manager (Sr. Producer)

Responsibilities

• Lead Integrated Agency Delivery: Bring hands-on advertising agency experience to leading complex, integrated marketing campaigns from initial scoping through launch and closeout, often across multiple client accounts simultaneously. Connect strategy, creative development, social, paid media, web builds, and video production, managing the distinct workflows, approvals, and dependencies that keep campaigns moving.
• Own Project Financials: Personally build cost and change estimates and project budgets in partnership with discipline leads, determining hours, staffing, rates, and timing. Track actual costs and budget burn against progress, forecast the cost to complete, and address variances before they compromise delivery or profitability.
• Resource Allocation: Determine the disciplines, seniority, allocation, and timing each project requires. Partner with team leads to secure resources, rebalance competing priorities, and identify freelance support when needed, evaluating rates and staffing decisions against project budgets and margins.
• Anticipate Risk and Recalibrate: Recognize early signs of budget overruns, resource strain, scope creep, and missed dependencies. Assess how changes affect connected workstreams, then adjust forecasts, staffing, sequencing, and expectations with clear recommendations.
• Build Client and Team Confidence: Partner with Account leads to run productive client conversations, explain trade-offs, and resolve delivery challenges. Give internal teams clear priorities, maintain actionable project documentation, and guide junior PMs while remaining hands-on with your own projects.

Requirements

• 4–5+ years of project management or digital production experience in a 360 integrated advertising agency setting, with substantial experience leading complex, integrated/360 engagements.
• Hands-on ownership of project estimation and budgeting, including defining deliverables and assumptions, estimating hours by discipline and seniority, applying rates, and calculating internal and external production costs.
• Resource Allocation, experience determining resource needs and allocating cross-functional teams, including evaluating staffing mix, availability, timing, and freelance costs against project requirements and profitability.
• Proven delivery experience across multiple service types, including creative production, social, paid media, digital/web builds, content, and video, with a strong understanding of dependencies between them.
• Experience project managing paid media campaigns, including coordinating media planning, creative specifications, trafficking, tracking requirements, launch schedules, and optimization cycles with media specialists.
• Strong client-facing judgment, including leading meetings, communicating project and financial status, presenting recommendations, and navigating conversations about scope, cost, and timing.
• Ability to identify risks early, diagnose their causes, and recalibrate budgets, resources, and delivery plans across connected workstreams.
• Proficiency with project management, resourcing, and financial tracking platforms; Kantata experience is a plus. Strong command of project plans, status reporting, meeting recaps, and decision documentation.

Preferred

• Kantata experience is a plus.

Benefits

• Healthcare coverage that includes 3 medical plan options: Anthem – EPO HSA, EPO HSA MERP, and PPO; dental and vision through MetLife; and life insurance policies through Mutual of Omaha
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Paid Time Off
• Parental leave paid at 100% of base pay for all new parents
• 9 Company Holidays + 1 Floating Holiday
• 401(k) Plan - 4% matching and vested on day 1
• College save-up plan & college loan repayment plan
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Pre-tax account for Parking and Mass Transit
• Sia provides several wellness and incentive programs free of charge through the firm medical plan – Anthem - such as: