The Project Manager is a champion of the Agency, partnering closely with all departments to help ensure holistic project health success. The PM is responsible for helping to craft the project plan, and manage the day-to-day execution of the plan. This work begins at the set up and onboarding phase of a project through post mortem, making sure the projects are delivered on time, within budget, and on brief. The PM works in lockstep with the Account, Creative, Strategy, and Production counterparts to establish and communicate project milestones, proactively identify roadblocks and solve for ongoing needs. They will confidently navigate and prioritize proper resourcing, schedules, and financials to successfully deliver excellent work that satisfies both client AND Agency goals. The PM is someone who respects and implements the process but also knows how and when it is appropriate to be flexible.
Experience Qualifications:
- 3-5+ years of agency or similar project management experience
- Strong interpersonal skills to bring people together, strengthen team relationships while motivating, directing, and challenging teams to produce great work
- Experience managing complex projects, on fast timelines with stellar attention to detail
- Superior organization and communication skills
- Must be a thoughtful, critical thinker, able to understand micro and macro project organization
- Ability to juggle multiple assignments and workstreams in a fast-paced environment
- Comfortable working in both collaborative and independent environments
- Familiar with lower, mid and upper funnel creative process and deliverables including social, digital, video (with added bonus for OOH, radio, print, web dev, HTML banners)
- Experience managing social and digital video campaigns partnering with a range of creative types including but not limited to copywriters, art directors, designers, motion graphics artists, and editors
- Client-facing experience a must
- Post-production experience a plus
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain project timelines and concurrent workstreams; work with teams to stay on schedule to hit internal and external milestones
- Partner with project leads to critically assess client feedback ensuring it’s executable within scope
- Manage schedules an timelines, clearly communicating expectations, objectives and next steps
- Circulate hot sheets / lead status team meetings to provide clarity of tasks and responsibilities, while also ensuring everyone has what they need to succeed
- Ongoing collaboration with Creative leads and Resource Managers on creative casting and resource allocations, making sure scoped staff to resources are appropriate
- Identify and flag any staffing needs/conflicts/changes as they arise
- On integrated accounts, partner with Media counterparts to assess campaign needs at project onset, and continue collaboration through testing, reporting and optimizations
- Work with the Project Management Director to pull and analyze monthly burn reports, identifying areas for improvements and efficiencies, flagging justifications and concerns
- Work closely with department leads to implement processes and operational efficiencies
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At Media.Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.
Media.Monks is committed to ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. We are committed to treating people with disabilities in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We believe in integration, and we are committed to meeting the needs of people with disabilities in a timely manner. We will do so by removing and preventing barriers to accessibility and by meeting our accessibility requirements under local accessibility laws.
What We Offer
Benefits
- Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
- Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
- 401k with company contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
- Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Media.Monks network
- A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
- Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)
Media.Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Media.Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Media.Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.
Salary Range$48,000—$54,000 USD
About Media.Monks
Media.Monks is the purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc that connects 7,600+ digital natives across one global team. We are united by a mission to shift industries forward and pave the path towards ambitious outcomes so our clients and our people can realize their full potential for growth. Joining Media.Monks means becoming part of a highly ambitious collective of some of the most gifted, focused, joyful talent from all over the world, with the goal to change the industry for good.
Our unified model combines solutions in media, data, social, platforms, studio, experience, brand and technology services to help our clients continuously reinvent themselves throughout increasingly rapid cycles of disruption. Our efforts to shape culture, build innovative technologies and unlock the future of growth have earned recognition from numerous esteemed panels: we maintain a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), regular recognition at Cannes Lions, and continual inclusion in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players (2020-24). In addition, we’ve received the honor of being Adweek’s first AI Agency of the year (2023), the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), a record number of FWAs, and have earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023. Together, these achievements solidify our experience in digital innovation, excellence in craft, and commitment to personal growth.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
While we continue to grow our teams, please be mindful of fraudulent job postings and recruiting activities that may use our company name and information. Please be mindful to protect your personal information, especially your national identification number, and bank account information during a recruiting process. While Media.Monks may reach out to potential candidates via LinkedIn, we will always ask applicants to apply through our website (https://media.monks.com/careers) and will never ask for payment or bank account information during the recruitment process.
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