Project Manager

Archrival; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Archrival is seeking a strategic Project Manager to own how work moves through the agency, balancing workflow, resourcing, and delivery. You will sit at the intersection of strategy and delivery, ensuring the right people are on the right work at the right time—while stepping in as a hands-onPM when momentum is needed.

This is a strategic operator role designed to forecast needs, reduce bottlenecks, and align teams across departments to deliver on client goals with clarity and pace.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Project Management, Operations, or Resourcing within an agency, consultancy, or fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage both systems and execution—you zoom out and zoom in with ease.
• Strong attention to detail and experience building and managing project plans, scopes, timelines, and milestones.
• Natural systems thinker who brings structure to ambiguity without killing momentum.
• Confident communicator who can partner with senior leaders and challenge assumptions when needed.
• Calm under pressure, decisive in gray areas, and allergic to unnecessary chaos.
• Experience with PM and resourcing tools (Monday, Asana, Smartsheet).

Responsibilities

• Support intake of new projects by identifying resourcing needs and availability.
• Design and manage a centralized view of capacity, staffing, and workload.
• Balance short-term needs with long-term planning to prevent burnout, bottlenecks, and fires.
• Forecast resourcing needs tied to pipeline, seasonality, and growth.
• Provide clear POVs and recommendations on tradeoffs, prioritization, and resourcing decisions.
• Surface risks early and propose solutions before problems hit delivery.
• Lead or stabilize projects that require tighter scopes, clearer milestones, or stronger execution.
• Build and manage project plans, timelines, milestones, scopes of work, invoicing, and expense reconciliation.
• Ensure work stays aligned to objectives, timelines, and budgets.

Skills

Project Management

Operations

Resourcing

Systems thinking

Execution

Stakeholder communication

Calm under pressure

Delivery focus

Monday

Asana

Smartsheet

Tools

Monday

Asana

Smartsheet

Job description

This role is responsible for building, owning, and evolving how work actually moves through Archrival. You'll sit at the intersection of workflow, resourcing, and delivery, ensuring the right people are on the right work at the right time - while stepping in as a hands-on Project Manager when projects need structure, momentum, or rescue.

This is a strategic operator role, not a reactive scheduling function. You will help leadership see around corners, create clarity in moments of ambiguity, and elevate how we plan, staff, and deliver work across the agency.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Workflow + Resourcing

• Support the intake of new projects, identifying resourcing needs and availability based on a client brief.
• Design and manage a centralized view of agency capacity, staffing, and workload to identify opportunities for increased utilization and resolving bandwidth issues before they arise.
• Balance short-term needs w/ long-term planning to prevent burnout, bottlenecks, and fires.
• Partner with department leads to proactively forecast resourcing needs tied to pipeline, seasonality, and growth.
• Provide clear POVs and recommendations on tradeoffs, prioritization, and resourcing decisions.
• Surface risks early and propose solutions before problems hit delivery.

Project Management

• Support teams by leading or stabilizing projects that require tighter scopes, clearer milestones, or stronger execution.
• Build and manage project plans, timelines, milestones, scopes of work, invoicing, and expense reconciliation.
• Ensure work stays aligned to objectives, timelines, and budgets - especially on complex or fast-moving initiatives.

Processes

• Establish consistent PM and workflow standards that still allow for flexibility and creativity.
• Improve handoffs between strategy, creative, production, and account teams.
• Provide consistent and clear communication on next steps with clarity on team role contribution for delivery, ensuring teams know who owns what, by when, and why it matters.
• Identify inefficiencies, friction points, and gaps in our current processes.
• Recommend and implement smarter ways of working (tools, rituals, frameworks).
• Help the agency scale without losing quality, sanity, or culture.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:

• 5+ years of experience in Project Management, Operations, or Resourcing within an agency, consultancy, or fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to manage both systems and execution—you zoom out and zoom in with ease.
• Strong attention to detail and experience building and managing project plans, scopes, timelines, and milestones.
• Natural systems thinker who brings structure to ambiguity without killing momentum.
• Confident communicator who can partner with senior leaders and challenge assumptions when needed.
• Calm under pressure, decisive in gray areas, and allergic to unnecessary chaos.
• Comfortable stepping into active projects to unblock teams and drive delivery.
• Experience with PM and resourcing tools (Monday, Asana, Smartsheet, etc.) - but more importantly, you know tools don't solve bad processes.