Senior Project Manager - Creative Advertising Lead

Mekanism; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Mekanism in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Project Manager to orchestrate cross-functional ad campaigns from concept to delivery. You will be the central hub for creative development, coordinating with finance, strategy, production, and analytics to keep programs on time and on budget.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in project management within an agency setting, exceptional organizational and communication skills, and comfort with AI tools to enhance efficiency.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of Project Management (or similar) experience.
• Be a team player, ability to effectively play nice with others.
• Ability to lead multiple brands; solid communication and decision-making skills.
• Exceptional organizational skills; able to juggle multiple projects as well as disparate information.
• Comfort in working autonomously, while also keeping Head of Project Management and PM team abreast of all project's status.
• Curious and inquisitive: someone that wants to roll up their sleeves and build something new.
• Able to work under tight deadlines and handle multiple tasks in parallel.
• Open & curious about using AI tools to ensure team's work is effective and output is flawless.
• Experience with Smartsheets is a plus.

Responsibilities

• The hub of information for all things related to creative development for the brand/project; they should be in the know on everything
• Partner with BM to liaise between depts, ensuring information, feedback, and documents are routed to the appropriate people
• Own PM system entry and maintenance
• Own daily or weekly hotlist and internal status meetings (as needed)
• Proactively identify potential efficiencies and/or issues i.e. efficient use of creative time, bandwidth issues, scheduling conflicts, brief clarity, oos deliverables, etc.
• Secure and assign creative resources/allocation for all projects on their assigned brand(s)
• Production supporter: ensure production is brought into creative dev at the right time, create/manage holistic project schedules that allow for proper production time, initiate and schedule production kickoff meetings, ensure creatives are able to meet prod. schedule requirements from a resource standpoint
• Financial supporter: Proactively manages to creative development budgets / scopes
• Coordinate freelance needs for creative development (i.e. creative freelancers / storyboard artists / presentation needs)
• Be the creatives’ rock: ensure they are clear on assignments, workload is manageable, calendars make sense, a general solver of creatives’ problems
• Create project folder & maintain up-to-date server organization/ asset management during creative development
• Own creation of project timelines - work with all depts to get alignment and signoff prior to project start
• Schedule and attend internal meetings related to creative development (creative briefing, creative reviews, full team reviews, etc.)
• Own notes and identify feedback and next steps for all internal team meetings in creative development

Skills

PM experience

Team player

Brand leadership

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Autonomy

Curiosity

Deadline management

AI tools familiarity

Tools

Smartsheets

Job description

Mekanism in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Project Manager to orchestrate cross-functional ad campaigns from concept to delivery. You will be the central hub for creative development, coordinating with finance, strategy, production, and analytics to keep programs on time and on budget.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in project management within an agency setting, exceptional organizational and communication skills, and comfort with AI tools to enhance efficiency.