Associate Director, Program Management

Company description

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Overview

We're looking for a strategic and passionate Associate Director, Project Management to help lead paid digital advertising efforts for a large Automotive brand. This role is critical in guiding the day-to-day internal and client relationships, driving content excellence, and ensuring seamless coordination across teams to deliver bold, data-driven strategies and content. The Associate Director will actively identify organic growth opportunities, heavily involved in estimation and contract reviews to ensure accuracy of effort and commitment. They will also consults with the leadership team on decisions and works together to persuasively align the project team to a greater goal. The core role of our Project Management team is to partner with Client Services in spearheading the execution of brand directives -- including Tier 1 and Tier 2 paid media campaigns, vehicle reveals/launches, and always-on paid media support. Working on digital paid advertising is exciting, fast-paced, and always-evolving, so we are looking for individuals who are passionate about automotive and can jump in to make an immediate impact on our day-to-day client work.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day communications through meeting scheduling, feedback trackers, meeting notes, status documents, QA

• Collaborate with the Client Services, Strategy, Creative, and Media teams to ensure cohesive, audience-first campaigns

• Review all deliverables and ensure exceptional delivery of tactics to form/reinforce client rapport (e.g. partner with Client Services, team follow through, reports, meetings, timelines)

• Ability to articulate delivery process/methodology effectively and successfully, clearly discuss and internally communicate Client constraints related to scope, timeline, or cost.

• Work closely with Staffing to assist with finalizing the Staffing Plan, should any outstanding resource needs remain

Project & Team Oversight

• Manage workstreams with clarity, efficiency, and accountability

• Oversee timelines, approvals, and deliverables across campaigns and evergreen content

• Mentor and lead junior account team members, promoting growth and team excellence

• Serve as the connective tissue across client services, strategy, creative, production, analytics, and media

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of project management experience in an agency setting (automotive experience a plus) managing medium-large size, digital media and social programs; approx. $10M in revenue

• Proven expertise in managing digital paid media programs for large-scale brands

• Adept at juggling multiple complex projects with meticulous attention to detail

• Confident communicator who can lead meetings

• Team player with a collaborative spirit and entrepreneurial energy

• Familiarity with asset specs, usage rights, and versioning across social and online advertising

• Experience with strategy, creative, data, production, and media disciplines.

• Experience with a distributed delivery model, leading diverse teams, and collaborating in a multi-cultural environment for end-to-end engagements.

• Effective systems thinking skills and ability to identify interconnectivity across multiple streams of work.

• Demonstrated experience navigating a large organization, showcasing the ability to influence with storytelling and data.

• Experience engaging directly with clients and comfortable with presenting to senior leaders.

• Strong project management experience. Process oriented with understanding of SAFe Agile ways of working. Experience with one or more of methodologies like scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile frameworks (SAFe, etc.), waterfall, and hybrid.

• Effective leadership, analytical, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills.

• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Powerpoint, Word) and Sharepoint

• Experience with Adobe Workfront and JIRA a plus

Additional information

The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources. Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:

• Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more

• Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility

• Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption

• Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance

• Tuition Assistance

• Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more

• Matching Gifts programs

• Flexible working arrangements

• 'Work Your World' Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)

• Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances

The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.

Razorfish is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law, genetic information, marital status, military service and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: $112,000 - $153,000 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 5/7/2026.