Marketing Project Manager

Plum Good Marketing; Detroit (MI); Remote; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Plum Good Marketing in Detroit is seeking a Marketing Project Manager who sharpens operations and people skills. You’ll run cross‑account projects, coordinate timelines, and ensure handoffs are smooth, while learning marketing tactics from Fractional CMOs.

You’ll be the second in command on accounts, owning task management, client updates, and vendor coordination, with a strong emphasis on accountability and process discipline.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating across departments and vendors to keep projects on track.
• Ability to manage client relationships and communications.
• Comfort with project management tools and data-driven reporting.

Responsibilities

• Join client meetings with the Fractional CMO and maintain day‑to‑day communication.
• Lead smaller accounts under supervision and build client trust.
• Manage projects in Asana, track tasks, due dates, and handoffs.
• Ensure deliverables meet briefs, brand standards, and quality checks.

Skills

Project management

Client relationships

Asana

Vendor management

EOS

Marketing knowledge

Tools

Asana

Job description

Plum Good Marketing | adj: very good. worth having.™

Plum Good Marketing is hiring a Marketing Project Manager. You don't need a marketing background. You need to be great at projects and great with people, and we'll teach you the rest. We'd rather teach marketing to a great operator than teach operations to a marketer.

We sometimes describe ourselves as an ops company that happens to do marketing. Our clients are solid, growing businesses, mostly manufacturers and legacy companies, with marketing work happening everywhere and nobody leading it. We embed ourselves as their part‑time head of marketing: we set the strategy, help them define their brand, manage their vendors, sit on their leadership team, and stay accountable to the results. You'll support our Fractional CMOs across those accounts. They own the strategy and the client relationship. You own the machine underneath it: the tasks, the timelines, the handoffs, and the follow‑through that make Plum's promise of "clients never have to chase us" actually true.

This is a client‑facing role, and it's how you'll learn and grow: shoulder to shoulder with the Fractional CMO in client meetings, strategy, reporting, analysis, and campaign delivery. You're the strong number two who makes the whole account run.

ABOUT PLUM

We're a fractional CMO firm based in Metro Detroit. Our clients are generally growth‑ready manufacturers, EOS‑aligned leadership teams, and second‑generation business owners. They have execution happening everywhere and strategic marketing ownership nowhere, and that’s where we come in.

We're technically an agency, but we don't act like one. We operate inside our clients' businesses as the marketing department they always wished they had.

Our core values are very well thought out and actionable in everything we do. We came up with them as a team and they're the filters we use for hiring, operating, and choosing clients:

• We are Reliable : We do what we say. Clients never have to chase us.
• We are Strategic : Strategy is our love language. Every tactic ties to a business outcome, or we don't do it.
• We are Experts : We've held our own in big rooms with smart people, and we belong there. When we know something, we say it with conviction. When we don't, we ask without being ashamed.
• We have EQ : Behind every frustrated client is a business owner who's poured everything into what they've built. We approach the relationship with empathy.
• We are Thoughtful : We push back when something isn't in a client's best interest, or when "going above and beyond" has quietly turned into going at our own expense. Thoughtful means intentional, not slow.
• We are Worth It : We don't deliver work that isn't worth someone's time, attention, or money. Full presence is part of the value, and we know our value.
• We are Integrative : We don't operate in silos. Plum isn't a vendor you hand a task to. We're the connective tissue between vision and results.

We're also operationally obsessed. We're proud to have clear workflows and actual SOPs. And, we love Asana, so much. Ours is built out with automations, dashboards, and portfolios, and we need people who think that structure is genuinely cool. We have written etiquette agreements for how we work together. We are utterly allergic to manufactured emergencies and chaos. If you read that paragraph and felt something, you'll probably love working with us.

We work remotely across different schedules. We assume positive intent. We don't do fire drills. We close on major holidays, run flexible PTO on a take‑what‑you‑need, cover‑each‑other basis, and keep roughly normal business hours without anyone watching a clock. Plum is woman‑owned and built deliberately as a place where people with full lives actually want to work. We hold each other accountable firmly and kindly. Full presence for our clients starts with full presence for ourselves.

We run on EOS internally. Level 10s, rocks, scorecards, V/TO. If those words mean nothing to you yet, that's ok, you'll learn them. If they're already part of your vocabulary, we love that too!

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Your job is to make sure the work gets done well and on time across every account you touch. The work falls into four buckets:

• Client Relationships . You'll join client meetings alongside the Fractional CMO, handle the day‑to‑day communication in between, and be a warm, reliable presence the client recognizes. You become the resident expert on each of your clients: their business, their people, their brand, their goals, and every deliverable in flight. When anyone at Plum has a question about one of your accounts, you're the fastest answer in the (virtual) building.
• Owning Smaller Accounts . As you find your footing, you'll take the lead on some of our smaller accounts, with a Fractional CMO supervising and backing you up. Running the meetings, making the calls, and building the client's trust in you directly. It's the best classroom we have.
• Project Management and Coordination . You run your clients' projects in Asana (and the real world). The system, automations, and workflows are already built. You work inside them and keep them humming. Every piece of your clients' work lives there with an owner, a due date, and a clear next step, and you're the person who makes that true. You intake new work, route it to the right people, track it to done, and flag risk before it becomes a fire. That includes keeping our specialists, your clients' internal marketing people, and outside vendors synced, so nobody's waiting on something they don't know is late.
• Quality Control. Nothing goes to a client that hasn't been checked against the brief, the brand, and Plum's standards. You catch the typo, the wrong logo file, the missing link. And you have taste: you can tell the difference between work that's technically fine and work that's actually good, and you send the fine stuff back.

You'll also pitch in hands‑on where you're useful: pulling research, drafting a first pass of copy, prepping materials for a meeting. Our specialists handle the production, so you're flexible and knowledgeable without ever being the bottleneck.

ABOUT YOU

You probably look something like this:

• Years of owning projects, processes, or customer relationships and being trusted with the outcome. Agency, big corporation, somewhere else entirely. We care about the skills, not the setting, and some of the best operators we've met come from places that never used the word "marketing."
• Experience as the central coordinator: the person between departments, vendors, and functions who keeps work moving and handoffs clean, often without formal authority over anyone involved.
• Warm and professional with clients, the kind of person customers ask for by name and looks forward to meeting with.
• Detail‑oriented and thoughtful at the same time. You notice the task nobody claimed, the broken link, the date that doesn't match, and you also ask why the process works the way it does. You love structure without being rigid about it: when the checklist and good judgment disagree, you use judgment and then fix the checklist.
• Deep comfort in project management and business tools. Bonus points for a genuine interest in automation and AI as tools for killing manual work, but not replacing thought or creativity.
• The ability to balance multiple clients and priorities at once, and keep your cool doing it. We'll be honest: we've found this is the hardest adjustment for people who haven't worked in a multi‑client environment before. If you've only ever served one boss or one internal customer, think hard about whether juggling several at once sounds energizing or exhausting.

Marketing knowledge is a plus, and so is EOS fluency. Neither is required. If you're strong on projects and people, we'll teach you the marketing stuff. A hospitality background is also a plus and not a coincidence: several of us came up through restaurants and hotels, and we believe it is part of the reason we're so successful building relationships with clients.

THE SUPPORT YOU'LL HAVE

You'll work directly with our Fractional CMOs and our founder, who is close to every account. Plum has specialists across SEO and AI search, paid media, content, design, video, and operations, a dedicated ops owner who maintains our Asana structure, and clear SOPs for how work flows through the firm. You're not inventing or maintaining the system. You're working inside one that's already built.

You'll also be learning marketing strategy from the inside, sitting next to the people setting it, every day. We're a growing firm and we'd rather promote people who already know how we work than hire over them. Where that goes depends on you.

THE DETAILS

Structure: Full time, W-2 employment.

Benefits: Not yet. A formal benefits package is on Plum's roadmap as the company grows, but it isn't part of this offer.

PTO and Holidays: Flexible PTO on a take‑what‑you‑need, cover‑each‑other basis, and we close for all major holidays.

Schedule: Full time.

Location: Fully remote, no office to report to. We meet locally 2‑4 times a year for planning or content shoots, and we occasionally visit our clients on site as needed, so Metro Detroit is a preference, not a requirement.