Creative Project Manager

George P. Johnson Experience Marketing; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

George P. Johnson Experience Marketing is hiring a Creative Project Manager to join a growing team. The role is hybrid, with on-site minimums in New York City, Boston or Austin, TX, at least 2 days per week.

You will oversee projects from planning to delivery, advocate for the creative team, drive process improvements, and manage timelines. You’ll coordinate staffing, scoping, and status meetings while ensuring all deliverables are in place.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of industry/agency experience.
• 3+ years as a Project Manager.
• 4 Year College Degree; preferred in Marketing/Advertising/Event Management/Business Administration, Hospitality, Communications, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Oversee projects from planning through delivery and manage timelines.
• Advocate for the creative team and remove obstacles.
• Lead process improvements when current methods aren’t working.
• Create and manage the creative timeline and milestones.
• Flag threats to deadlines and find resolutions with the team.
• Coordinate creative requests with deliverables and information.
• Collaborate with creative resourcing for staffing and engagement.
• Support scoping in planning and contribute to PM grid process.
• Manage hours for the team in Deltek and coordinate with Account Operations.
• Schedule and lead creative status meetings and team check-ins.

Skills

Creative Ops

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Multi-project juggling

Time management

Prioritization

Event experience

Timeline ownership

Adaptability

Team support (5-10)

Project management software

New tools & processes

Communication

Leadership presentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Google Suite

ClickUp/Monday (plus)

Push back when info gaps

Strategic thinking

Independent & collaborative work

Proactive mindset

Feedback oriented

Education

4 Year College Degree

Tools

Deltek

Job description

Our Opportunity

GPJ is hiring a Creative Project Manager to join our growing team.

This role is hybrid, requiring you to report on-site to one of the following office locations a minimum of 2 days/week: New York City, Boston or Austin, TX

Your Role

You work closely with the creative team, overseeing projects from the planning phase through delivery. In this role, you advocate for the creative team and remove any obstacles that may arise for them. As someone who values process and understands its importance in meeting deadlines, you spearhead process improvements when the current methods aren’t working for the team, striving to find solutions that accommodate all members.

You create and manage the creative timeline, ensuring all milestones are met, and you proactively flag any potential threats to deadlines, working collaboratively with the team to find resolutions. You are responsible for all creative requests that come in for your team, working with the creative lead to confirm that all necessary deliverables, assets, and information are in place for execution.

Furthermore, you collaborate with creative resourcing for program staffing and identify when additional resources need to be engaged. You support the creative lead with scoping during the planning phase of all projects, including involvement in the PM grid process and contributing where possible. Managing hours for your creative team in Deltek and working closely with Account Operations to resolve any inaccuracies also falls under your responsibilities. You schedule and lead creative status meetings for your team, as well as organizing creative team check-ins.

Attending all milestone meetings, you take notes and ensure the creative team is aligned on next steps. Finally, you set up and maintain the creative folders and Slack channels for your assigned programs.

Your Skills

• Experience working in Creative Operations or as a Creative Project Manager
• Attention to detail
• Problem solving abilities in a creative capacity
• Experience juggling more than one project at a time
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to quickly shift focus and re-prioritize tasks
• Experience working on large scale events or conferences
• Experience creating and owning timelines
• Ability to quickly adapt when problems arise during a project
• Experience supporting a team of 5-10 creatives
• Experience with project management software
• Ability to quickly adapt to new tools and processes
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to “speak the language” of other departments
• Comfortability presenting to people in leadership positions
• Passion for going above and beyond
• History working with cross-functional teams across account management, strategy, production, finance, etc
• Proficient in Google Suite
• Experience in ClickUp or Monday is a plus
• Confidence pushing back when the team is not receiving the information they need
• Ability to think big picture and distill it down into actionable plans
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment
• Always thinking proactively
• Leans into feedback from others

Your Competencies

Urgency

Decisive, responsive, and fast acting you achieve goals quickly both when working on your own and in collaboration with others. You demonstrate adaptability and agility when making on-the-spot decisions never sacrificing quality or work interactions. Cool under pressure. For the sake of time, you are able to eliminate unnecessary steps and use network resources to aid in project completion.

Communication

At all levels, you easily convey and sell your ideas, and can articulate an idea with brevity during a brainstorm or client presentation. You express yourself clearly when collaborating and presenting, maintaining a positive image for GPJ both internally and externally. You understand the value of a well-turned phrase and a well-told story.

Creative Innovation

You are an idea-driven creative: someone who thinks about the big picture. Drive, develop, or support new and improved creative methods, products, procedures or technologies. Propels innovation by implementing the latest interactive technology in your storytelling. Devise new approaches to make improvements or solve problems. You are an innovative storyteller who is constantly challenging themselves to come up with ideas that are on strategy, transformative, and authentic to the client’s brand.

Flexible

Easily move on to new tasks with little to no notice. Put personal preferences aside and switch to a different strategy, form of communication or other objective without panicking. Maintain composure when deadlines move up and priorities shift. Keeps an open mind.

Prioritization/Organization

Properly allocate time and resources so that jobs are completed within a defined timeframe; within budget and managing all resources (Full-time and freelance) as effectively as possible. Establishing a reasonable timeline for completion when no concrete date is given.

Your Experience

Experience & Education

• 3-5 years of previous industry / agency experience.
• 3(+) years as a Project Manager
• 4 Year College Degree; preferred in Marketing/Advertising/Event Management/Business Administration, Hospitality, Communications, or related field

Travel & Mobility

• Ability to travel 10%
• Ability to work irregular hours in addition to normal business hours, to include nights, weekends and holidays as needed

Your Impact

In your role, you will have influence and responsibility over:

• Creative & Strategy
• Resource Management
• Scoping
• Fabrication & Graphics
• Management
• Timeline ManagementChange Order Management
• Post Program Analysis

Salary Range: $** 75 k - $90 **k

Salary is dependent on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) experience, skills, and location.

Who We Are

GPJ is the world leader in experiential marketing. Our 29 global offices are filled with fearless people dreaming up ideas that are transforming industries and bringing the most respected brands to life in powerfully, exciting ways. We are a part of the Project Worldwide family. An independent, employee-owned global network of complementary, wholly owned agencies.

You read that “employee-owned” part, right? You heard us correctly. You work hard, she works hard, we all work hard… we all succeed and reap the rewards. We have an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – providing our employees with an ownership interest. We thought you would want to know that. In fact, there is a lot more you would want to know about us, like our FTO policy (no more “accruing” time off), our employer matching 401(k) plan (no vesting period), and our low contribution healthcare option. But we are getting ahead of ourselves here, let’s talk about this exciting opportunity first and we can fill you in on our perks & benefits later.

GPJ is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected class. In addition to federal law requirements, GPJ complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. GPJ expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on any protected class.