Senior Project Manager (Contract)

Paradowski Creative; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 117,000; Part time

Job summary

Paradowski Creative in St. Louis is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead multi-workstream client programs on a temporary 1099 basis.

You will shape scopes, schedules, and budgets, coordinating design, development, strategy, and accounts to deliver on time and within scope. You'll be the operational engine, turning priorities into actionable plans, identifying risks early, and ensuring teams stay focused.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management experience in a creative, marketing, or production environment.
• Proven success managing complex, multi-workstream projects, including budget management and schedule oversight.
• Fluency with project management tools.
• A collaborative mindset and excellent cross-functional communication.

Responsibilities

• Project Planning & Resourcing: Define scopes of work with account leads; build and manage timelines, milestones, and resource allocations across multiple workstreams.
• Workflow Coordination: Connect design, development, strategy, and account teams; manage the broader set of work across the portfolio for consistency and quality.
• Operational Efficiency: Partner on best practices, tools, and processes; distill complex information into concise status updates and docs.
• Risk Management: Identify risks early, collaborate on contingency planning, track scope and budget, prevent scope creep.

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Schedule oversight

Organizational skills

Cross-functional communication

Problem solving under pressure

AI tools curiosity

Resilience

Agency experience

Tools

Workamajig

Slack

Job description

Paradowski Creative is an independent, full-service creative agency based in St. Louis. We bring strategy, creativity, technology, and craft together to create experiences that spark curiosity, invite participation, and help brands build meaningful connections with people.

We're looking for a Senior Project Manager, with 5+ years of agency experience, to join us on a temporary basis, leading coordination across one of our key client portfolios. You'll turn complex, multi-workstream efforts into clear, achievable plans; aligning timelines, resources, and teams to deliver work on time and on budget. Attention to scope, schedules, and standards ensures creative and strategy partners can stay focused on great ideas while you keep everything moving smoothly, on time, and within budget.

This isn’t just scheduling and spreadsheets. It’s about giving designers, copywriters, strategists, and developers the support they need to do their best work without getting tangled in logistics. You’ll sit at the heart of the agency’s operational engine turning priorities into actionable plans, shielding creative energy from chaos, and spotting bumps in the road before they slow anyone down.

This is a temporary, 1099 independent contractor engagement running through Friday, December 18, 2026, reporting to the Head of Creative Operations. Team members are generally in the St. Louis office Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with Tuesday and Friday designated as remote, no-meeting days. This engagement is expected to require approximately 32–40 hours per week, though workload may vary from week to week. Exact weekly hours are flexible and open to discussion based on candidates availability.

What You'll Do:

• Project Planning & Resourcing - Help define scopes of work with account leads; build and manage timelines, milestones, and resource allocations across multiple workstreams.
• Workflow Coordination - Serve as the connective tissue between design, development, strategy, and account teams. Manage the broader set of work across the portfolio, ensuring consistency, balanced resources, and quality across campaigns.
• Operational Efficiency - Partner with the Head of Creative Operations on best practices, tools, and process. Distill complex information into concise, actionable status updates and documentation.
• Risk Management - Identify and assess risks early, and collaborate with account and creative leads on contingency planning. Track scope and budget, and partner with account leads to prevent scope creep.

What You Bring:

Required:

• 5+ years of project management experience in a creative, marketing, or production environment
• Proven success managing complex, multi-workstream projects, including budget management and schedule oversight
• Strong organizational and time-management skills
• Fluency with project management tools (Workamajig, Slack, or similar)
• A collaborative mindset and excellent cross-functional communication
• Ability to pivot gracefully under pressure and troubleshoot issues
• Curiosity for emerging creative technologies (AI-assisted tools or new production methods) and a desire to use them thoughtfully
• A steady, positive presence. Resilient, adaptable, and committed to making the work (and the people doing it) shine

Preferred:

• Agency experience
• Experience coordinating diverse production styles, including digital activations, live events, video, experiential, and social content

This is a temporary, 1099 independent contractor engagement; standard Paradowski employee benefits do not apply.