Senior Associate Project Manager

The Program partners with the world’s most competitive and innovative brands to develop highly strategic and creative solutions. Our team is dedicated to creating meaningful connections between lifestyle brands and people, in a collaborative and communicative environment. We are fueled by the desire to grow and perfect our craft, and curating an environment where our team can learn from each other is one of the key cornerstones of our team member growth.

Our Project Managers possess an innate ability to navigate strategy, creative, technology, content, and client-brand partnerships. They own the entirety of the project process, ensuring no detail goes unnoticed and untouched. As a company cornerstone, they are solely dedicated to the success of every project and our clients’ business. 

Our most important assets are people and the relationships we build. As a Senior Associate Project Manager, we trust you to manage these relationships, delivering quality work under tough constraints with a positive outlook. Our Senior Associate Project Managers are responsible for supporting complex projects for a wide variety of clients, categories, and mediums. You will help produce deliverable requirements and documentation, oversee timelines, budgets, and resources while motivating teams and managing partnerships with confidence. 

*Note: although this is not a content production / video production focused position, you will work across the content landscape in partnership, from time to time, with a content producer.

Responsibilities

• Steer client and project deliverables, strategic requirements and explain complex ideas clearly, and confidently.

• General understanding of each team member's strengths and ability to resource them accordingly.

• Willingness to help wherever needed to ensure quality of the work. Collaborating to come up with creative and strategic concepts from ideation to reality 

• Collaborate in cross-functional creative processes, partnering with strategy, creative, and production teams to hit a defined benchmark

• A growing ability to motivate people in a smooth, organized manner, promoting urgency without panic, confident direction over indecision.

• Approach your work with an open, flexible outlook and a focus on driving results for both our team and client teams.

• Organize process and workflow across project workstreams.

• Manage project administration such as production status, schedules, resource requests, budget management, and reporting, working across departments and teams.

• Communicate risks, opportunities, and solutions to team and partners

• Contribute to creative and strategy pitches, briefs, and reviews. Work closely with strategy, creative, and technology teams in the development of new business, including pitching, scoping, and estimating new projects.

• Support client and project deliverables, strategic requirements. Manage expectations against reality.

• Contribute to multiple, concurrent projects and project teams, working closely across team member disciplines.

• Work in an independent fashion, solve problems, make decisions, and communicate effectively in difficult situations.

• Effective presentation and communication skills.

• Manage creative, technical, and production team members, in addition to outside vendors, to ensure all work achieves an outcome that exceeds client expectations.

• Ability to lift up to 40lbs of gear from time to time to lend a hand. 

• Reliable vehicle and driver's license, willing to drive to be on set, meet with client partners, etc.

Experience

• 2+ years experience as a project manager or producer at an advertising agency or in-house at a brand.

• An ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment handling several ongoing projects. 

• Strong organizational skills and the ability to effectively manage multiple conflicting priorities in a rapidly changing environment.

• High proficiency in the Google Suite (Drive, Docs, etc.), Keynote, and spreadsheets, Asana, ClickUp and other project management tools.

Details

• Ideal candidates are located in Portland, Oregon and happy to join us in the studio a few days per week as needed.

• The salary band for this role is $47,500-$60,000.

• We provide a competitive benefits package that includes paid holidays, vacation/personal time, 401k matching (and 401k loans!), health, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance, paid paternity and maternity leave, and more.

• Relocation package available if applicable.

To Apply

Please send information (LinkedIn, resume, work samples, etc.) demonstrating your ability to careers@theprogram.co