Company Description
We Are Saatchi.
We’re a crowd of curious thinkers and leaders. We’re dog-lovers, beach-walkers, deep-fried devotees and boundary-pushers. We firmly believe that with a childish sense of wonder, the latest technology and an openness to embrace the new, we can imagine the impossible and prove it is totally within our reach.
With offices in Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle we are brought together to create unparalleled strategies, unexpected fresh ideas, and exceptional advertising.
Overview
The Program Manager is an organized, detailed and solution-oriented individual who owns and manages all aspects of the project life cycle (concept thru delivery) across large-scale projects, inclusive of digital, TV and print content, and social media initiatives. Must be intimately familiar with the roles played by each practice area (Creative, Design, Copywriting, Editorial, Studio, Print Production, Video Production).
The Program Manager acts as a confident partner with internal key departments and agency partners as needed, providing operational clarity with an innate ability to push things forward and deliver on time.
Responsibilities
Cross-Team Collaboration
- Act as the central point of contact between internal teams, including, creative, production, strategy, account and media
- Facilitate clear and proactive communication between departments to ensure alignment
- Manage and lead internal project status meetings, ensuring accountability and transparency
- Work closely with Account and Strategy teams to ensure campaign details and project requirements are clearly defined before execution, inclusive of brief creation
- Proactively identify resources needed to accomplish work as well as monitor workload distribution to maintain efficiency
- Drive process improvements and establish standardized workflows for better project execution
- Collaborate with account and media on executing creative optimizations based on ongoing performance readouts
Project Planning & Execution
Plan, manage, and execute marketing projects including campaigns, product launches, social content, and creative optimizations based on media performance.
- Define timelines and deliverables in collaboration with creative and account teams.
- Develop, maintain, and manage project schedules, ensuring all deadlines are met
- Track project progress, identify potential risks, and proactively resolve issues to maintain timelines.
- Schedule project kickoffs, manage expectations, and oversee execution from inception to delivery
- Ensure deliverables are in line with overall brief/assignment
- Ensure additional client comments are addressed before rounds of work gets the broader team
- Optimize workflows to enhance efficiency and consistency across projects
- Participate in client meetings by clearly articulating project plans and timelines, communicating assumptions and risks.
- Daily coordination with internal teams (design, copy, production) depending on stage of project and scheduling of creative and internal reviews prior to client reviews
Account-PM Interaction
- Involved in all client-facing meetings from strategy through execution
- Included in all internal discussions set up by account management
- One-on-one discussions with account management for increased communication and transparency to ensure strong collaboration
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of project management experience in a marketing or creative environment.
- Strong understanding of the project lifecycle and demonstrated experience with managing projects across marketing channels (broadcast, digital, social)
- Proven ability to manage large-scale projects (inclusive of digital) and cross-functional teams
- Proficiency with project management tools (Smartsheet)
- Strong leadership, organizational and communication skills; experience being in client-facing situations/meetings
- Understands media, performance readouts and agile ways to execute optimized creative
- Familiar with agile methodologies and ways of working
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a deadline-driven setting
Additional Information
Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.
Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Compensation Range: $59,850- $90,620 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 09/15/2025.
