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Job Title: Marketing Project Manager
Location: Hybrid – Culver City, CA
Schedule: Full-Time
Duration: 12 months with potential extension
Overview
A dynamic and highly organized Marketing Project Manager is needed to support a fast-paced Product, Design, and Marketing environment. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented professional who thrives in cross-functional collaboration, excels at managing multiple priorities, and maintains a high level of discretion when handling sensitive information.
Key Responsibilities
- Support annual and quarterly planning for marketing initiatives and priorities.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including Growth, Media, Email, Platform, Editorial, Business, and Marketing—to ensure alignment on project scope and objectives.
- Maintain clear and accurate project timelines, adapting as scope or requirements change.
- Coordinate and facilitate meetings, ensuring participation from all necessary stakeholders.
- Prepare and distribute weekly status updates on priority projects.
- Identify and implement workflow optimizations in partnership with cross-functional teams.
- Manage project roadmaps, scopes, creative review trackers, production schedules, and other documentation.
- Determine appropriate communication paths and ensure information is shared thoughtfully and with discretion.
- Capture meeting notes and distill key takeaways for teams.
- Collaborate with resource and brand management teams to maintain alignment.
- Maintain master timelines and tracking systems.
- Partner with other Project Managers to support consistent tracking standards and protocols.
Required Qualifications
- 5–7 years of professional experience in project management, program management, or operations management.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Proven ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to work effectively across all levels of an organization.
- Strong organizational skills and meticulous attention to detail.
- Demonstrated ability to make confident, informed decisions under pressure.
- Experience handling sensitive or confidential information with integrity.
- Strong desire for continuous learning, process improvement, and sharing best practices.
- Proficient in project management tools such as AirTable, Quip, WorkFront, OmniPlan, Wrike, 10,000 Ft, or similar platforms; as well as productivity tools such as Numbers, Pages, iCal, Keynote, and Excel.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working within complex, cross-functional marketing environments.
- Ability to anticipate change and respond quickly and effectively.
- Strong work ethic and a high degree of professionalism.