Freelance Senior Project Manager

VML; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading creative agency is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead innovative digital and social projects. The ideal candidate will have robust project leadership experience in marketing, a strong creative sensibility, and a collaborative spirit. This role offers the flexibility of remote work, ideally located in Seattle or Portland, and requires expertise in B2B marketing and customer experience.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on project leadership experience in advertising or marketing.
• Proven track record in driving creative solutions and digital content creation.
• Experience working on large-scale omnichannel programs.
• Customer experience and journey mapping, e-commerce, B2B and consumer brand marketing experience are highly desired. Good understanding of emerging web standards, user-centered design (UX/UI), optimization and search practices.

Responsibilities

• Deliver work that is excellent, on time, and on budget.
• Motivate and manage cross-functional teams.
• Handle project estimation and budgeting.
• Financials | Responsible for project estimation, planning and profitability. Build detailed project plans; manage resource allocations; and report on project status, burn rates, budgets and reconciliations to agency and client stakeholders.

Skills

Project leadership

Creativity

Collaboration

User-centered design

B2B marketing

Job description

This range is provided by VML. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Director, Executive Recruitment, North America at VML

Overview

VML is looking for a Senior Project Manager - Freelance with a breadth and depth of expertise to champion Digital and Social work across multiple workstreams with a focus on B2B at the center. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the delivery of innovative solutions bringing together creative, data and technology across the entire customer journey.

To be successful in this role, you must possess agency experience in both digital and integrated marketing, building digital experiences and creating compelling content. CMS experience is very helpful but not required. You must have a strong creative sensibility, a genuine interest in user-centered design, and a hands-on understanding of content production for all channels.

In this role, you will be responsible for working with internal and external teams to understand client needs, market forces and consumer sentiments to deliver effective B2B solutions. You will be accountable for ensuring all project deliverables are of high-quality, completed on time and on budget, and are aligned with the brand’s goals. You must have the ability to maintain the broad vision required for executing a project, including strategic thinking and leadership from beginning to end, as well as the talent for overseeing all the small details that add up to fulfilling our commitment to client satisfaction and project requirements. The ideal candidate will be an innovator who is excited to roll up their sleeves and get into the details to build processes that drive business.

What you'll do

• Work | Deliver work that is excellent, on time, on budget AND goes beyond the brief. Set up plans and processes that drive projects forward and ensure successful delivery with high client satisfaction.
• People | Motivate, direct and challenge teams to produce great work. Establish and manage cross-functional teams across different locations that are collaborative, efficient and high-functioning.
• Process | Establish and manage program communication and process. Set up appropriate structure and tools to ensure successful collaboration and engagement across agency and client teams.
• Financials | Responsible for project estimation, planning and profitability. Build detailed project plans; manage resource allocations; and report on project status, burn rates, budgets and reconciliations to agency and client stakeholders.

Who you are

• A builder | Process-oriented and an innovator with a strong point of view and distinct voice. Ability and appetite to create and bring people together and inspire solutions.
• Optimistic, open and collaborative | Our team is close-knit and supportive and we’re working with a lot of unknowns – you must be an advocate of environments that are comfortable with ambiguity, positive and encourage collaboration.
• Ego-less | We all wear the hats that need wearing, it’s a mentality that makes the team successful.

What you'll need

• 4+ years of hands-on project leadership experience in advertising or marketing communications in a client-facing role, ideally at a creative agency or similar.
• Proven track record in driving creative solutions and digital content creation.
• Knowledge of social and digital content creation.
• Customer experience and journey mapping, e-commerce, B2B and consumer brand marketing experience are highly desired. Good understanding of emerging web standards, user-centered design (UX/UI), optimization and search practices.
• Experience working on large-scale integrated, omnichannel programs with multiple parallel work streams and diverse teams across the USA (UX, Tech, Strategy, Creative, Account, Research and Data).
• Must be comfortable working PST Hours
• Role ideally located in either Seattle or Portland, but can be Remote
• High EQ and the ability to read what a team needs to help motivate them.
• Self-motivated and driven to build and create great work.

Employment type | Temporary

Location | Seattle, WA / Redmond, WA / Bellevue, WA (Remote options may apply)