Digital Marketing Project Manager – Contract position

LandaJob; United States; Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 96,000; Part time

Job summary

LandaJob is seeking a Digital Marketing Project Manager for a contract role in the Kansas City area. The position is 20-30 hours per week, on-site Monday-Thursday with occasional remote Friday hours.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives across BI, data engineering, analytics, and paid media dashboards. Ideal candidates bring at least 5 years of digital media and adtech project management experience, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to drive accountability without direct

Qualifications

• Seasoned project management professional with at least 5 years of experience specifically managing digital media and adtech projects.
• Experience managing complex, cross-functional initiatives with multiple teams.
• Proven ability to develop and manage integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies.
• Experience coordinating teams that may not report directly to the PM.
• Ability to drive accountability and follow-through without direct authority.
• Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to identify risks and escalate appropriately.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an integrated master project plan to launch paid media dashboards and other initiatives.
• Translate goals into plans, milestones, deliverables, and due dates.
• Identify dependencies, sequencing, decision points, and critical path items.
• Publish clear decision recaps and deliverables to maintain visibility.
• Establish a consistent project cadence across workstreams.
• Coordinate deliverables and progress updates with leadership.
• Track action items, owners, and due dates.
• Monitor progress and escalate issues as needed.
• Prepare status reports and governance materials.
• Document decisions and follow-up items for accountability.

Skills

Project management

Digital media

Adtech

Cross-functional teams

Stakeholder management

Risk escalation

Communication

Tools

Smartsheet

Microsoft Project

Asana

Monday.com

Jira

Advantage

Job description

Digital Marketing Project Manager – Contract position, 20-30 hours per week

We are working with our Kansas City Agency client to find a seasoned Digital Project Manager for an ongoing contract position, 20-30 hours per week, on-site M-Thurs, with occasional Friday hours (remote).

The Digital Project Manager will support the execution of complex, cross-functional business initiatives within a large, matrixed marketing and communications organization.

These initiatives involve multiple connected workstreams and disciplines, including business intelligence, data engineering, analytics, technology, and paid media.

This role will partner closely with leadership and workstream owners to bring structure, visibility, and accountability to the custom design, development, and launch of paid media dashboards. The dashboard initiative spans multiple industries, client portfolios, and accounts. This role requires a strong executor who can manage multiple stakeholders, track progress against multiple, interdependent milestones, surface risks early, and help keep the work moving forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an integrated master project plan to launch multiple paid media dashboards and other priority integrated media initiatives, organizing and managing multiple workstreams.
• Work with stakeholders to translate goals into plans, milestones, deliverables, and due dates.
• Identify and track dependencies, sequencing requirements, decision points, and critical path items.
• Maintain visibility to key decisions, meetings, and stakeholder conversations, publishing clear decision recaps and agreed-upon deliverables.
• Establish and maintain a consistent project cadence across workstreams.
• Coordinate deliverables, deadlines, and progress updates with leadership and workstream owners.
• Track action items, commitments, owners, and due dates.
• Monitor progress, identify risks or delays, and **escalate issues** as needed.
• Prepare status reports, meeting agendas, and supporting materials for leadership and governance meetings.
• Document decisions, action items, and follow-up items to ensure accountability.
• Maintain project tools, trackers, logs, and reporting materials.
• Support additional project management duties and related priorities as assigned.

Recommended Qualifications

• Seasoned project management professional withat least 5 (five) years of experience specifically managing digital media and adtech projects with a strong understanding of media planning and buying, campaign reporting and analytics, and attribution modeling.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple teams, departments, business units, or external partners.
• Proven ability to develop and manage integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent workstreams and coordinating teams that may not report directly to the project manager.
• Demonstrated ability to drive accountability and follow-through without direct authority.
• Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information for senior leadership.
• Proactive and detail-oriented, with the ability to identify risks, issues, delays, and dependencies early and **escalate** appropriately.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic environment where priorities and timelines may evolve.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting an enterprise transformation, operating model evolution, or large-scale strategic initiative.
• Experience working with adtech platforms and third-party media vendors.

Platforms & Tools

• Experience with project and program management platforms such as Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Asana, Monday.com, Jira, Advantage or similar tools.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and/or SharePoint or comparable collaboration and document management platforms.

Certification

• PMP, CAPM, PRINCE2, or comparable certification is preferred but not required.