Senior Project Manager

Crispin; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

FSA/HSA

Paid time off

Sick time

Parental leave

Long-term disability

Holiday calendar

Job summary

Crispin in Houston, TX is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead client campaigns from brief to delivery. You will partner withAccount Services and Practice teams to ensure on-time, on-budget execution across paid social, search, display, and creative development.

The role requires 5+ years in advertising or integrated marketing, strong cross-functional leadership, and excellent communication. Hybrid schedule with in-office Tuesdays and Thursdays in downtown Houston; ability to overlap with

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management experience in ad/creative/digital or integrated marketing agency.
• Experience leading cross-functional campaigns with media, creative, strategy, analytics.
• Ability to develop scopes, estimates, and timelines that balance speed and budget.
• Strong client and team communication; capable of leading conversations and managing expectations.
• Proficiency with agile PM tools and MS Office suite.

Responsibilities

• LeadIntegrated Performance Marketing Initiatives across paid social, paid search, programmatic and display.
• Manage scopes, timelines and schedules while maintaining budget efficiency.
• Serve as client and team liaison to align on rapid briefs and approvals.
• Own project communication and status updates with milestones, deliverables and risks.
• Proactively manage risks, scope changes, and ensure brand safety and quality.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Budget management

Client liaison

Communication

Schedule management

Agile

Adobe Workfront

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Adobe Workfront

Microsoft Office

Job description

Crispin is seeking an organized and goal-oriented Senior Project Manager to join our dynamic agency. Project Managers are responsible for leading a project internally from its inception to execution. They will work closely with Account Services and Practice teams to deliver projects on time and on budget. Senior Project Managers must possess effective cross-organizational leadership skills. They will need to prioritize, plan and execute against multiple concurrent projects autonomously.

Responsibilities

• Lead Integrated Performance Marketing Initiatives: Oversee projects from initial brief through execution, managing integrated workstreams across paid social, paid search, programmatic, display, digital media, and creative development.
• Manage Scopes, Timelines & Schedules: Produce flexible scopes of work, estimates, and agile project timelines that accommodate both planned brand campaigns and high-speed reactive workstreams while maintaining budget efficiency and client expectations.
• Serve as Client & Team Liaison: Co-lead day-to-day external client communications alongside internal account and creative teams to align on rapid briefs, secure fast-track approvals, and maintain transparency throughout hyper-fast turnarounds.
• Own Project Communication & Status: Lead internal project communication and facilitate regular status meetings, providing clear visibility into project progress, milestones, deliverables, outstanding decisions, and potential roadblocks.
• Proactive Risk & Scope Management: Anticipate production hurdles, manage quick-turn scope changes, and actively mitigate risks associated with fast-paced social deployments to ensure brand safety and quality compliance.
• Manage Campaign Execution & Deliverables: Ensure all campaign components are progressing according to plan, including creative development, media assets, trafficking requirements, campaign launches, optimizations, and reporting deliverables.
• Drive Best Practices & Standards: Foster agile collaboration, key takeaways, and streamlined production processes between social strategists, creators, and practice teams to optimize the agency's real-time creative model
• Monitor Project Health & Reporting: Prepare and analyze project status reports, budgets, timelines, and resource plans, proactively communicating relevant updates and recommendations to leadership and project stakeholders.

Requirements

• Hybrid Schedule: Able to work in our downtown Houston office on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• 5+ years of project management experience in an advertising, creative, digital, or integrated marketing agency.
• Proven track record in integrated or performance marketing: Understanding of paid media and digital marketing ecosystems, including paid social, paid search, programmatic, display, and other digital advertising channels.
• Integrated campaign management: Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional campaigns that bring together media, creative, strategy, analytics, and other marketing disciplines.
• Cross-functional leadership: Ability to lead multiple teams and stakeholders, establish clear accountability, and drive projects forward without direct authority.
• Budget and scope management: Experience developing estimates, managing project budgets, tracking resource utilization, and navigating scope changes.
• Strong client and team communication: Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to lead conversations, manage expectations, and escalates challenges.
• Problem-solving mindset: Ability to anticipate challenges, manage competing priorities, and develop solutions in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Software proficiency: Proficiency in Adobe Workfront (or equivalent agile PM tools) and Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Schedule flexibility: Ability to work Eastern Time zone hours to overlap with key clients and respond to real-time social moments.
• Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.

Base compensation range is $90,000 - $110,000. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, job-related qualifications/skills, and geographic location. The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

For this role, Benefits include:

• health/dental/vision insurance
• matching 401(k)
• FSA and HSA accounts
• paid time off
• sick time
• paid parental leave
• paid medical leave
• STD/LTD insurance benefits
• generous holiday calendar