Director of PM Delivery & Programs

Social Driver; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

401k

Continuing education

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Bike-share

Fast Lane

No Meeting Fridays

Job summary

Social Driver in Washington, DC is seeking a Director of Project Management to lead a team of PMs and an administrator across ~100 active clients. This build role shapes a scalable delivery model and ensures plans, timelines, and risk signals are clear for clients.

You will set standards for complex engagements, manage capacity, and partner with Sales and Directors of Engagement to align on priorities. The role stays close to the work, delivering high‑impact programs while growing the PM

Qualifications

• 7+ years of project management in a digital/marketing or client‑service setting.
• 3+ years leading a team of PMs, including hiring, development, and performance management.
• Has built a PM cadence, standards, or operating model, not only run one inherited.
• Negotiated capacity, priorities and timelines with production, creative or development leaders as a peer.
• Track record leading large multidisciplinary programs across web, digital, creative and content.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting and burn tracking across fixed‑fee, retainer, or time‑and‑materials work.
• Comfortable leading change and building inside a model that is still forming.
• Exceptional communication skills with internal and client meetings; C‑level presentations.
• Proficiency with Asana, Harvest, Google Workspace, Slack.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the project management team with clear expectations by level.
• Set up complex, multidisciplinary engagements with defined plans and sequencing.
• Own PM capacity and workload, including weekly capacity reviews.
• Run the operating cadence, standards, and systems for delivery.
• Partner with Sales, Engagement Directors and Creative Services on delivery and pricing.
• Protect quality and manage risk with early identification of scope changes and delays.
• Stay close to the work, leading select high‑visibility engagements as needed.

Skills

Project management

Team leadership

Agile methods

Stakeholder mgmt

Asana

Harvest

Budgeting

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree or equiv

Tools

Asana

Harvest

Google Workspace

Slack

Job description

Social Driver in Washington, DC is seeking a Director of Project Management to lead a team of PMs and an administrator across ~100 active clients. This build role shapes a scalable delivery model and ensures plans, timelines, and risk signals are clear for clients.

You will set standards for complex engagements, manage capacity, and partner with Sales and Directors of Engagement to align on priorities. The role stays close to the work, delivering high‑impact programs while growing the PM