Associate Director, Project Management (Creative Assets)

Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 97,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Digitas in Boston is seeking an Associate Director, Project Management to lead the operational delivery of creative work across a complex portfolio of client engagements. You will partner with clients, agency teams, creatives, and production to ensure projects move smoothly from intake through review, compliance, and launch.

The role demands operational excellence, stakeholder leadership, and process optimization to drive efficiency, accountability, and high-quality delivery across multiple

Qualifications

• 7+ years in creative project management or related fields.
• Experience leading cross-functional programs in agency or healthcare.
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and priorities.
• Strong understanding of asset lifecycle and digital marketing execution.
• Experience improving operational processes and governance.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end management of creative projects and asset delivery across clients.
• Oversee intake, prioritization, timelines, approvals, and resource planning.
• Serve as the operational partner to clients, agency teams, creatives, production, and activation stakeholders.
• Drive cross-functional alignment and proactively mitigate risks.
• Establish and optimize workflows and project governance.
• Ensure assets meet brand, technical, platform, and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee QA, compliance, and approvals including MLR when applicable.
• Monitor project health, dependencies, and capacity.
• Mentor junior PMs and promote accountability and collaboration.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Operational excellence

Workflow optimization

Risk management

Communication

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Workfront

Jira

Asana

Smartsheet

Monday.com

Job description

Company description

Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign’s Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

The Digitas culture is made up of fearless, inventive and generous Unicorns of all kinds.

Overview

Our Project Management team enables and executes great work in the smartest way possible. We are passionate about transforming ideas into results as we constantly negotiate, organize, and understand the ever-changing landscape of digital marketing and technology.

We are seeking a strategic and highly organized Associate Director, Project Management to lead the operational delivery of creative work across a complex portfolio of client engagements. This role partners closely with clients, agency teams, creatives, activation leads, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure projects move seamlessly from intake through review, compliance, quality assurance, and launch.

The ideal candidate combines operational excellence, stakeholder leadership, and process optimization expertise to drive efficiency, accountability, and high-quality delivery across multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

• Lead end-to-end management of creative projects and asset delivery across multiple clients, brands, and channels.
• Oversee intake, prioritization, timelines, approvals, resource planning, and project execution.
• Serve as the primary operational partner to clients, agency teams, creatives, production, and activation stakeholders.
• Drive cross-functional alignment, proactively manage risks, and remove barriers to delivery.
• Establish and optimize workflows, governance processes, and project management best practices.
• Ensure all creative assets meet brand, technical, platform, and regulatory requirements prior to launch.
• Oversee QA, compliance, and approval processes, including Medical, Legal, and Regulatory (MLR) review where applicable.
• Monitor project health, dependencies, and capacity to ensure successful delivery against business objectives.
• Maintain oversight of asset management, documentation, version control, and delivery readiness.
• Mentor junior project management talent and champion a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in creative project management, creative operations, digital production, marketing operations, or a related field.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional programs in agency, healthcare, pharmaceutical, marketing, or digital environments.
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and high-volume creative workflows.
• Strong understanding of creative development, production processes, asset lifecycle management, and digital marketing execution.
• Experience developing and improving operational processes, workflows, and governance models.
• Exceptional communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong problem-solving capabilities with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset.
• Experience with project management and workflow platforms such as Workfront, Jira, Asana, Smartsheet, or Monday.com.

Preferred Qualifications

• Agency, creative operations, or pharmaceutical marketing experience.
• Familiarity with MLR, regulatory, and compliance-driven review processes.
• Experience supporting omnichannel campaigns and large-scale asset production.
• PMP, Agile, Scrum, or related project management certifications are a plus.
• Prior experience leading, mentoring, or developing project management teams.

Why This Role Matters

The Associate Director, Project Management is critical to delivering high-quality creative work efficiently, accurately, and compliantly. This role provides the operational leadership needed to scale delivery, improve cross-functional collaboration, mitigate risk, and ensure flawless execution in fast-paced and highly regulated environments.

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [e-mail].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Compensation Range: USD $97,375.00 - USD $149,296.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 1/1/2028.