Creative Project Manager - REMOTE | supporting EST hours
Posted 1 day ago by Software Guidance & Assistance
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
Remote or New York, New York
Summary: The Creative Project Manager role at SGA involves overseeing the end-to-end execution of creative projects for a premier insurance client in New York City. This position requires strong project management skills to coordinate various stakeholders and ensure alignment with business objectives. The role is remote, operating on East Coast hours, and emphasizes proactive risk management and effective communication. Candidates should have extensive experience in creative project management within complex environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end execution of creative projects, from kickoff through delivery.
- Develop and manage integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, approvals, and stakeholder touchpoints.
- Lead status meetings, drive decisions, document next steps, and ensure clear accountability across teams.
- Proactively identify risks, dependencies, resource constraints, scope changes, and decision-making needs; troubleshoot issues and adjust plans to keep work moving forward.
- Lead project close-out activities, including retrospectives, to capture learnings and inform future work.
- Partner closely with Creative Account Leads on larger strategic initiatives, supporting intake, planning, prioritization, coordination, and execution.
- Translate creative briefs, business objectives, and strategic direction into clear, actionable workplans for creative and delivery teams.
- Provide concise visibility into project status, decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and escalation needs to support informed decision-making.
- Lead execution of tactical, production, and delivery-focused projects where a Creative Account Lead is not assigned.
- Apply sound judgment and business fluency to guide day-to-day decisions, resolve issues, and keep stakeholders aligned.
- Ensure work remains aligned to goals, messaging, brand standards, compliance needs, and channel requirements, escalating when needed.
- Coordinate execution across creative, content, digital, social, email, production, paid media, compliance, legal, business partners, and external vendors.
- Partner with internal media teams to manage creative delivery timelines, specifications, versioning, approvals, trafficking needs, and final handoffs for paid channels.
- Create and maintain campaign workspaces, status trackers, and collaboration tools that support planning, visibility, and team accountability.
- Ensure deliverables across channels are aligned, properly sequenced, approved, and ready for launch or handoff.
- Monitor project health across scope, timing, resourcing assumptions, stakeholder readiness, approvals, and risk.
- Use insights from retrospectives, debriefs, and lessons learned to improve planning, execution, stakeholder engagement, and team effectiveness over time.
Key Skills:
- 8+ years of creative project management experience in an in-house agency, external creative agency, marketing organization, or similarly complex delivery environment, Workfront experience a plus.
- Proven ability to manage integrated creative work across multiple channels, including paid and organic social, email, digital, video, print, landing pages, and customer communications.
- Experience supporting marketing, creative, digital, paid media, or customer communications programs, including creative versioning, specifications, approvals, and handoffs.
- Strong organizational, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to lead projects independently and influence without authority.
- Ability to balance structure with flexibility in a fast-paced, evolving environment with competing priorities and changing requirements.
- Comfort partnering with account, strategy, creative, media, digital, compliance, legal, business, and external vendor teams.
- Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with strong ownership, judgment, attention to detail, and follow-through.
Salary (Rate): £64.00 hourly
City: New York City
Country: United States
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Creative Project Manager for a contract/right to hire assignment with one of our premier Insurance clients in New York City, Hudson Yards. This is a remote role working East Coast hours
Responsibilities :
- Own end-to-end execution of creative projects, from kickoff through delivery.
- Develop and manage integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, approvals, and stakeholder touchpoints.
- Lead status meetings, drive decisions, document next steps, and ensure clear accountability across teams.
- Proactively identify risks, dependencies, resource constraints, scope changes, and decision-making needs; troubleshoot issues and adjust plans to keep work moving forward.
- Lead project close-out activities, including retrospectives, to capture learnings and inform future work.
- Partner closely with Creative Account Leads on larger strategic initiatives, supporting intake, planning, prioritization, coordination, and execution.
- Translate creative briefs, business objectives, and strategic direction into clear, actionable workplans for creative and delivery teams.
- Provide concise visibility into project status, decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and escalation needs to support informed decision-making.
- Lead execution of tactical, production, and delivery-focused projects where a Creative Account Lead is not assigned.
- Apply sound judgment and business fluency to guide day-to-day decisions, resolve issues, and keep stakeholders aligned.
- Ensure work remains aligned to goals, messaging, brand standards, compliance needs, and channel requirements, escalating when needed.
- Coordinate execution across creative, content, digital, social, email, production, paid media, compliance, legal, business partners, and external vendors.
- Partner with internal media teams to manage creative delivery timelines, specifications, versioning, approvals, trafficking needs, and final handoffs for paid channels.
- Create and maintain campaign workspaces, status trackers, and collaboration tools that support planning, visibility, and team accountability.
- Ensure deliverables across channels are aligned, properly sequenced, approved, and ready for launch or handoff.
- Monitor project health across scope, timing, resourcing assumptions, stakeholder readiness, approvals, and risk.
- Use insights from retrospectives, debriefs, and lessons learned to improve planning, execution, stakeholder engagement, and team effectiveness over time.
Required Skills:
- 8+ years of creative project management experience in an in-house agency, external creative agency, marketing organization, or similarly complex delivery environment, Workfront experience a plus.
- Proven ability to manage integrated creative work across multiple channels, including paid and organic social, email, digital, video, print, landing pages, and customer communications.
- Experience supporting marketing, creative, digital, paid media, or customer communications programs, including creative versioning, specifications, approvals, and handoffs.
- Strong organizational, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to lead projects independently and influence without authority.
- Ability to balance structure with flexibility in a fast-paced, evolving environment with competing priorities and changing requirements.
- Comfort partnering with account, strategy, creative, media, digital, compliance, legal, business, and external vendor teams.
- Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with strong ownership, judgment, attention to detail, and follow-through.
Preferred Skills:
- Workfront experience.
- Experience in financial services, insurance, healthcare, or other regulated industries.
- Business-to-consumer (B2C) experience.
- Business-to-business (B2B) experience.
SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .
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