What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at iris?
Project Manager
Location: Atlanta, GA or NY, NY
Hybrid: 3 days in-office per week
The role:
We’re looking for a dynamic and detail-oriented Project Manager to join our team and help lead the charge on one of our most high-profile and fast-paced clients: Barclays. From Premier League sponsorship activations and Wimbledon hospitality to integrated marketing campaigns across the US Consumer Bank, this role offers exposure to a wide range of projects that span strategy, creative, events, and production.
This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a client-facing, high-volume environment, and who’s comfortable working across multiple workstreams, tight timelines, and complex stakeholder structures.
Your responsibilities:
- Leading the planning, execution, and tracking of mid- and short-term projects across a variety of deliverables; from strategic presentations and social content to branded event collateral and digital campaigns.
- Managing detailed project timelines and budgets across multiple teams and touchpoints.
- Collaborating with strategy, creative, production, and account leads to ensure seamless delivery.
- Navigating large, matrixed organizations like Barclays by adapting to internal structures and collaborating across multiple departments and approval layers.
- Working across consumer banking, sponsorship, and investment bank initiatives, no two projects are the same.
- Identifying and mitigating project risks, keeping teams aligned, and proactively communicating updates and blockers.
- Helping improve how we work by streamlining processes and finding efficiencies in how we deliver.
What we’re looking for:
- Proven working experience in project management in an agency environment.
- Knowledge of various advertising channels such as social, digital, web, POS, print, motion, TV, DOOH, OOH
- Exceptional client-facing and internal communication skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Exceptional organizational skills, including attention to detail and multitasking skills.
- Experience in content production a bonus.
- Strong working knowledge of project management tools, principles, and methodologies.
- A team player with a strong will to foster a positive work environment.
- You're not just any Project Manager – you're a Project Manager who thrives in a fast-paced, ever-changing landscape. You get excited about big, innovative ideas, and love nothing more than turning them into reality.
About Iris
Participate or perish. It’s not just our rallying cry – it’s a creative imperative. Iris is the global creative micro-network built for brands that refuse to blend in. With 650 people across 11 offices, we help clients like Samsung, adidas, Barclays, Bentley, California Pizza Kitchen, Beiersdorf and Samsonite show up in culture with work that stands apart. Powered by Participation, and brought to life across paid, earned and owned media, our agency model is big enough to be dangerous, small enough to stay agile. Founded outside the ad establishment in 1999, Iris has always been defined by its outsider mindset – one that still drives our mission today.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and recruit on talent alone, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, education, class, sexual orientation or disability. We champion diversity and believe it not only benefits, but enhances our creativity, our company and the wider society at large.