Performance Marketing Project Manager

DEPT; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare, Dental, and Vision

401k plan, plus matching

PTO

Paid Company Holidays

Parental Leave

Job summary

DEPT is seeking a Manager, Project Management with a performance marketing background to join our Creative & Media division. You’ll lead day-to-day delivery across social, search, and programmatic campaigns, ensuring on-time, on-budget execution.

You'll partner with media strategists and channel experts to keep work flowing, manage timelines, budgets, and blockers, and drive continuous improvement while keeping clients happy from kickoff to wrap-up.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in an agency environment, ideally managing paid media or integrated marketing campaigns.
• Understanding of digital performance marketing, especially paid social, search, and programmatic.
• Fluency in project management practices with flexibility to adapt when things change.
• Strong communicator who builds trust with clients and motivates teams internally.
• Organized, proactive, and calm under pressure—juggling timelines and deliverables.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks across multiple clients and teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and own day-to-day project delivery across multiple performance marketing projects—spanning media planning & strategy, social advertising, programmatic, media and creative testing.
• Define clear requirements across media, creative, and strategy.
• Build timelines and coordinate deliverables using tools like Asana, Trello, or Jira, within scope and budget.
• Act as the glue between internal teams (media, creative, analytics) and external stakeholders.
• Support campaign & testing setup, approvals, QA processes, and performance check-ins.
• Identify blockers, propose solutions, and ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
• Drive continuous improvement in workflows from kickoff through reporting.
• Support testing roadmaps and end-to-end test planning, managing interdependencies between teams.
• Own project financials – maintain budget overviews, assist invoicing, coordinate with finance for billing.

Skills

Agency experience

Project management

Communication

Organization

Independent work

Team collaboration

Budget awareness

Tools

Asana

Trello

Jira

Job description

DEPT is seeking a Manager, Project Management with a performance marketing background to join our Creative & Media division. You’ll lead day-to-day delivery across social, search, and programmatic campaigns, ensuring on-time, on-budget execution.

You'll partner with media strategists and channel experts to keep work flowing, manage timelines, budgets, and blockers, and drive continuous improvement while keeping clients happy from kickoff to wrap-up.