Project Manager

We are seeking a Project Manager for integrated projects ranging from strategies, activations, creative content for social media, and more. If you like variety and tailoring process to project, this is the job for you. We are seeking a Project Manager who is process-oriented, unafraid to ask questions, and highly collaborative on integrated projects.  

Who are you? 

You love to organize, implement, and track project plans across multiple projects at once. You lead with curiosity and serve as the common thread on programs, managing timelines and budget reports, supporting priorities, and communicating with cross-functional teams so that nothing falls through the cracks. You are detail-oriented, have an energetic presence and a belief in following through. You love collaboration and teamwork in a fast-paced work environment. 

The job 

As the Project Manager across programs with concurrent workflows, you’ll work with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver for our clients. You’ll collaborate with account, specialty, and project management peers to ensure that project deliverables map to strategic intent and brand guidelines, while meeting timeline and budget requirements. 

About your day-to-day:  

Project Managers focus on daily project management, supporting financial management and using team collaboration skills for the delivery of projects. They both support and work independently alongside senior project managers to track project deliverables within timing and budget.

• Development of business acumen by assisting in defining scopes, building estimates, and obtaining necessary approvals.
• Use of project management tools to author and maintain project schedules, project briefs, cost estimates, budgets, and other relevant project documentation with input and oversight from relevant team members.
• Anticipate and support the needs of projects, resolving project issues and removing barriers to success for the team.
• Manage project burn and identify and flag scope creep.
• Proactively communicate and manage hours, tasks, and timelines with integrated team members
• Schedule and attend meetings, communicate next steps, and assign actions.
• Support client management in partnership with the account team, including managing client feedback, supporting next steps, proactively communicating project implications, and tracking against scope.
• Partner with resource management to manage staff plans and future staffing requirements.

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• 3-5 years of project management at an integrated marketing or PR agency, or related experience 

• Strong passion for and demonstrated knowledge in project management and integrated programs
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Smartsheet (or other similar project management tool) 

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Assembly is an integrated agency providing purpose-built communications to Microsoft – bringing strategy, creative, research, social and digital, and influencer marketing together to drive tangible business results and advance Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

We advocate for ideas based on real audience insights and sound strategic opportunities and bring them to life with creative executions that earn attention. We are the team behind some of Microsoft’s most exciting work across Surface, Xbox, M365, and Windows to name a few. We are the lead agency for the Microsoft brand across social; the global PR agency of record for Xbox; and the influencer agency of record for Xbox, Surface, M365 and Windows. Assembly is also a strategic partner for executive communications across Microsoft Store and several executives across the company.

Our results are a direct reflection of our culture and people – we believe that bringing together diverse perspectives enhance creativity and innovation, and we embrace and celebrate differences both in our organization and through our work. We’ve partnered with Microsoft for 27 years, across 17 countries around the world.  Come be a part of our collective story as we partner with Microsoft to enable each other to achieve more.

Assembly Media was founded in 2014 under DJE Holdings to exclusively service Microsoft. In 2019 our parent agency, Edelman, was recognized by AdAge as one of the top 10 creative companies in the U.S. and recognized as a 2019 Best Place to Work.

Assembly is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage racially and ethnically diverse people, members of the LGBTQ community, veterans, parents, individuals with disabilities and members of any and all protected classes to apply.