Principal Marketing Project Manager

Job Title: Principal Marketing Project Manager

Location: Spring, TX (Onsite 2-3 days per week)

Duration: Contract - 8 months

Job Description

We are seeking a Principal Marketing Project Manager — Campaign Operations & Alliance Programs to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in integrated campaign project management, alliance marketing operations, and cross-functional coordination and a proven ability to deliver on-time campaign launches while building scalable, repeatable operating models.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end management of commercial media campaigns to achieve milestones, approvals, dependencies, and launch requirements on schedule.
• Build and maintain project plans, timelines, trackers, dashboards, status reports, and communication frameworks.
• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams across marketing, media, creative, category, retail, alliance, analytics, legal, finance, and agency teams.
• Manage campaign intake, briefing, planning, execution, reviews, approvals, launch readiness, and post-launch tracking.
• Establish and manage campaign governance, including ownership models, approval workflows, escalation paths, and decision checkpoints.
• Serve as subject matter expert for alliance-driven execution with understanding of Microsoft, Intel, and AMD processes, funding, approvals, and co-marketing compliance.
• Manage alliance tracking requirements, including partner IDs, project IDs, creative approvals, UX approvals, and documentation.
• Identify and mitigate risks, bottlenecks, resource constraints, and process gaps before they affect timelines.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings, project reviews, working sessions, and executive status updates.
• Drive operational consistency by standardizing workflows, templates, approvals, reporting, naming conventions, and documentation.
• Develop a scalable and repeatable campaign management framework for internal adoption.
• Create process documentation, playbooks, templates, governance models, training materials, and operational guides.
• Train and mentor Marketing Activation Specialists on best practices and the new operating model.
• Ensure complete knowledge transfer and transition readiness before engagement end.
• Provide leadership visibility into portfolio health, risks, launch readiness, and business impacts.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Project Management, or related field.
• 8 years managing complex marketing programs, integrated campaigns, media operations, or large cross-functional initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience at a Senior or Principal Project Manager level.
• Proven success leading multiple high-priority projects in fast-paced environments.
• Experience with alliance marketing and partner-funded programs, preferably with Microsoft, Intel, and AMD.
• Experience developing scalable operating models, governance structures, playbooks, and process improvements.
• Background working with agencies, creative and media teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership.
• Technology industry experience preferred. PMP, Agile, PROSCI, or related certification preferred.

Preferred Skills:

• Expertise in alliance and partner marketing processes across Microsoft, Intel, and AMD ecosystems.
• Ability to build and standardize workflows, reporting, and approval paths for scale.