Remote Senior Project Manager — Strategic Delivery Lead

Highwire; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible hybrid work model

Generous vacation policy

401(k) plan with employer matching

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vis

Job summary

Highwire is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead client accounts and production across marketing, creative, and content deliverables. You will act as the internal lead for day-to-day project execution and be the primary liaison with clients to align timelines and briefs.

The role requires 7+ years of agency PM experience, a proven ability to manage multiple complex projects across time zones, and strong communication and negotiation skills.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of project management experience in an agency environment, with a proven track record of leading multiple concurrent, complex, and highly visible projects.
• Deep experience running diverse project types, including digital marketing, creative and content deliverables,
• Ability to think on your toes and find resourceful solutions to problems without heavy oversight.
• Ability to develop new execution processes aligned to best practices in areas where they may not already exist.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (or equivalent experience). Certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP) or CAPM is preferred.
• Exceptional ability to coordinate across functions and practices to deliver effective content marketing strategies that meet client business objectives.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage workflows across multiple time-zones.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills. #LI-Remote

Responsibilities

• Integrated Oversight: Manage the intersection of account ownership and production to ensure seamless delivery.
• Client Communication: Act as the owner for timelines and brief needs, maintaining strong trust through consistent communication in collaboration with account leads.
• Strategic Consulting: Articulate strategic plans and consult with clients and internal leads at a high level while ensuring deliverables such as designs, copy, and strategies align with agreed-upon briefs.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure all deliverables meet client goals, company standards, and specific quality requirements for integrated marketing, content, and creative deliverables.
• Process Development: Contribute to the development of templated processes, including project kickoffs, scoping, resourcing, and contract management in collaboration with finance and agency leadership.
• Creative Operations: Support in streamlining creative workflows, optimizing internal production pipelines, and refining the handoff process between creative, account teams, and clients.
• Resource & Staffing: Take ownership of project staffing and act as the gatekeeper of team priorities to ensure teams are never over-extended.
• Workflow Management: Implement consistent project management processes across multiple concurrent workstreams, ranging from digital and social to video and other integrated marketing assets.
• Change Management: Lead operational execution and manage scope change requests in collaboration with account leads to prevent project derailment.
• Budgetary Control: Manage project-specific budgets, develop detailed Statements of Work (SOWs) and navigate the budget-setting process in support of account lead negotiations.
• Reporting & Insights: Prepare and present project status reports, budget updates, and comprehensive retrospectives to internal and external stakeholders.
• Scope Stewardship: Ensure all project-specific impacts and coordination are based strictly on client goals and agreed-upon scope.

Skills

Agency PM

Digital marketing

Creative deliverables

Content deliverables

Problem solving

Process improvement

Bachelor's degree

PMP/CAPM

Coordination across teams

Time zone management

Communication and negotiation

Education

Bachelor’s degree

PMP or CAPM

Job description

Highwire is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead client accounts and production across marketing, creative, and content deliverables. You will act as the internal lead for day-to-day project execution and be the primary liaison with clients to align timelines and briefs.

The role requires 7+ years of agency PM experience, a proven ability to manage multiple complex projects across time zones, and strong communication and negotiation skills.