Description
Join a strategy-first creative agency delivering integrated work across strategy, media, design, content, and technology. Its expanding relationship with one of the most iconic and cutting edge B2B brands on the planet creates a wide variety of exciting creative projects. As Project Director, you will shape the commercial and operational direction of this high-volume account. You will deepen the client partnership while helping teams deliver ambitious work with clarity and financial discipline.
Who You Are
- You bring senior agency-side project leadership and client-partnership experience
- You have strong financial fluency across SOWs, budgets, burn rates, profitability, and resource planning
- You have led complex, concurrent creative projects while remaining hands-on in the work
- Experience with large, high-volume B2B or technology accounts is preferred
- Experience with brand, social, motion, presentation, event, or internal-communications work is preferred
- You are strategic, commercially aware, proactive, collaborative, and highly responsive
- You can lead through ambiguity without expecting a traditional people-management remit
What You’ll Do
- Serve as the senior client lead and escalation point for a complex strategic account
- Create SOWs from scratch and establish project budgets, timelines, and resource plans
- Monitor burn rates, profitability, scope, and overall financial performance
- Identify expansion opportunities and develop proposals that grow the client partnership
- Lead sensitive conversations involving scope, timing, budgets, and delivery risks
- Guide a Senior Project Manager responsible for day-to-day execution
- Partner with creative teams across brand, social, motion, presentations, events, and internal communications
- Remain close enough to the work to guide multiple concurrent projects effectively
What Success Looks Like
- SOWs, budgets, timelines, and resource plans are accurate and commercially sound
- Financial performance and project risks are monitored and addressed proactively
- The client views you as a trusted partner during both routine delivery and difficult conversations
- Growth opportunities are recognized and translated into credible proposals
- The Senior Project Manager and creative teams have the direction needed to execute effectively
- Complex workstreams move forward without sacrificing scope, profitability, or quality
Salary Range: $125,000-$135,000 (annually based on experience)
Location: Remote (9:00am - 6:00pm ET)
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