(Temp) Associate Director Project Management

Publicis Groupe; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 74,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid family care

Adoption & fertility support

Pet adoption support

Flexible working arrangements

Work Your World program

Matching gifts

Paid time off

Job summary

Razorfish, part of Publicis Groupe, seeks an Associate Director, Program Management to lead large-scale cross-channel digital and marketing technology programs for a major technology client.

You will drive end-to-end program management across Customer Engagement, MarTech, data, measurement, and enterprise transformation workstreams, coordinating cross-functional teams and delivering with executive visibility.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of program or project management experience in digital/marketing/agency environment.
• Strong background in MarTech, customer engagement, data-driven marketing, CRM, paid media, measurement.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior program lead for large-scale, cross-channel digital and marketing technology programs.
• Coordinate work across client stakeholders, Publicis Groupe teams and cross-discipline teams.
• Shape and maintain program roadmaps with scope, milestones, risks, and ownership across workstreams.
• Lead training and enablement efforts including curriculum planning and documentation creation.
• Coordinate measurement strategy workstreams and executive presentations.

Skills

Program management

MarTech

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Agile/SAFe

Data governance

Team leadership

Job description

Company description

Hi there- at Razorfish, we're leaders in what's next. Since the dawn of the internet, we've helped brands move first through every era of transformation, defining what digital means for business and now leading brands into the age of AI. Everyone has a prediction. Razorfish has a track record.

Named a Most Innovative Agency three years running (2024-2026) by Campaign US, our work reflects a proven ability not just to anticipate what's coming, but to help our clients actively shape the future. No matter the trend or cultural moment, delivering real business impact wouldn't be possible without our people. We bring together curious, driven, and diverse thinkers who challenge convention, push boundaries, and hold a high bar for creative excellence.

If you're motivated to work alongside top performers, push the boundaries of what's possible, and help define where technology, business, and marketing are headed next-this is the place to do it. Join us at razorfish.com.

This role at Razorfish will serve as a member of Publicis Groupe's strategic internal agency, Constellation.

Constellation serves as an internal-facing brand formed by a collective of Publicis Groupe agencies to address our client's creative, data, strategy, media, and technology requirements. Team members collaborate across agencies while functioning as sub-divisions within their respective brands to provide dedicated support for the client. By acting as a unified interface, Constellation eliminates operational silos and presents a single service entity and primary point of contact for the client.

Overview

We are seeking a Associate Director, Program Management to lead complex, cross-channel digital and marketing technology initiatives for a major technology client. This role will be responsible for end-to-end program management across Customer Engagement, MarTech, data, measurement, and enterprise transformation workstreams. The Associate Director will help operationalize workstreams for a new data & marketing platform, coordinate cross-functional teams and partners, and ensure programs are delivered on time, and with clear executive visibility. This person will serve as a senior program lead who can translate complex business, technology, data, and measurement requirements into actionable roadmaps, status reporting, governance routines, and delivery plans.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior program lead with ownership of large-scale, complex, cross-channel digital and marketing technology programs
• Coordinate work across client stakeholders, Publicis Groupe teams and cross-discipline teams such as analytics, data engineering, CRM, media, audience strategy, etc.
• Shape and maintain program roadmaps that clearly define scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, decision points, and cross-functional ownership across multiple workstreams.
• Lead training and enablement efforts, including curriculum planning, speaker coordination, documentation creation
• Coordinate measurement strategy workstreams, including status reviews, executive presentation preparation
• Manage data needs and integration governance
• Develop clear executive-facing communications, including weekly hot sheets, project updates, meeting notes, next steps, presentation materials, and design-resource coordination.
• Assess team dynamics, communication gaps, scope risks, and delivery blockers, then drive corrective actions, escalation paths, and risk-mitigation strategies.
• Lead large-group working sessions and stakeholder meetings to drive decisions, resolve ambiguity, and maintain alignment across complex internal, client, and partner teams.
• Manage scope, staffing, estimates, financial health, and delivery expectations to support sold-margin targets and identify solutions when scope or margin changes arise.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of program or project management experience, preferably within a digital, marketing, consulting, or agency environment with direct client-facing responsibilities.
• Strong background in MarTech, customer engagement, data-driven marketing, CRM, paid media, measurement, and cross-channel digital program delivery.
• Experience supporting enterprise transformation programs, platform operationalization, or large-scale marketing technology initiatives with multiple stakeholders and evolving requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams independently, prioritize competing needs, and maintain forward momentum across complex programs.
• Excellent executive communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information into clear updates, decision materials, status reports, and presentations for senior leaders.
• Proven experience partnering with marketing, strategy, creative, product, analytics, CRM, data engineering, media, technology, and external partner teams.
• Strong systems-thinking capability with the ability to identify dependencies, risks, integration points, and interconnectivity across workstreams.
• Experience managing ambiguous, first-of-their-kind, or evolving-scope initiatives that require proactive problem solving and structured decision-making.
• Comfortable leading meetings, documenting next steps, tracking action items, managing follow-ups, and keeping internal, client, and partner teams accountable.
• Experience developing or supporting process documentation, process mapping, RACI models, training materials, and change management deliverables.
• Strong project management discipline with familiarity across Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Effective leadership, analytical, negotiation, stakeholder-management, and conflict-resolution skills.

Additional information

The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources.Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:

• Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
• Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
• Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
• Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
• Matching Gifts programs
• Flexible working arrangements
• 'Work Your World' Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
• Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances

The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.

Razorfish is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law, genetic information, marital status, military service and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [e-mail].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: USD $53.99 - USD $86.40/Hourly. 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 the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 10/1/2026.