Vice President Director, Project Management_

New York

**Company Description**

Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by Ad Age as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign’s Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

**Job Description**

Our Project Management team enables and executes great work in the smartest way possible. We are passionate about transforming ideas into results as we constantly negotiate, organize and understand the ever-changing landscape of digital marketing and technology.

To help with this, we’re looking for an outstanding Vice President, Director in Media Project Management – an integration expert with a passion for using collaboration to drive cohesion across both creative and media planning cycles, striving for flawless execution of brand and performance media campaigns. And we achieve this by establishing integrated connection points by way of campaign timelines, workflows and process documents, driving seamless execution of plans from conception to completion.

Our project work includes integrated management of planning and executional phases across digital and social media campaigns, digital partnership activations and promotions across external creative teams and 3rd party publishers and delivering operational excellence through day-to-day task management to deliver unparalleled value for both internal and client teams.

As a Vice President, Director, you will not only help develop and execute the plans that allow our teams to create exciting work – you’ll also supervise a team of project managers and oversee large programs of work, if not an entire account. To succeed, you will act as a connected thread across media and creative teams, strive to be proactive, have a passion for media planning and execution, maintain a deep project management toolkit and exercise excellent leadership skills. Sound like you? Read on.

**What you’ll do:**

**As a** **Vice President, Director on the Project Management Team, you will:**

+ Lead efforts across cross-disciplinary team to deliver the estimated business value of an approved program

+ Facilitate, track and monitor programs, activities and roadmaps and scope

+ Define and adjust processes to meet project/business needs and look for ways to improve processes while coaching teams to do the same

+ Lead integrated account planning sessions

+ Ensure internal stakeholders are kept appraised of program status

+ Participate in team and cross-capability recruiting, interviewing, and staffing

+ Own partnership with client in house creative team and/or creative agencies

+ Learn and understand internal media capabilities, processes and backend workflows

+ Optimize templates and tools utilized by the media team to ensure program success

+ Participate in new business RFI or RFP requests when necessary

+ Contribute to capability model definition and management

+ Demonstrate strong written and oral presentation skills

+ Develop and articulate compelling decks and lead trainings

+ Manage multiple direct reports and set career and capability goals with them

+ Enforce team compliance to high company standards and professionalism

+ Participate in team and cross-capability recruiting, interviewing and staffing

+ Attend training seminars and continuing education as offered

**Day-to-day, your role includes:**

+ Being responsible for the direction, oversight and outcome of a large account, program or process

+ Problem-solving program and project issues; assisting teams in resolution and successfully leading large teams to develop risk mitigation plans

+ Working with capability leads to understand business needs and helping identify and solving staffing-mix issues to meet business goals

+ Working with clients to establish best practice processes that meet client business needs

+ Demonstrating the ability to deliver constructive feedback while outlining and facilitating development plans where needed

+ Experiencing something new every day

**Qualifications**

**We’re looking for strong, impactful work experience, which typically includes:**

+ A four-year degree

+ 10-12 years of Project Management, Marketing or related experience

+ Mastery of large-level projects and programs

+ A general knowledge of media channels and terminology

+ Superb organizational skills and proven ability to successfully manage a multitude of tasks, projects and information simultaneously

+ Highly motivated and detail oriented

+ Able to navigate complexity and uncertainty with ease, driving stakeholder decisions and process improvements

+ PMP and/or CSM Certification (or desire to get this)

+ Working knowledge of enterprise tools (JIRA, MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Slack, Trello)

**You are the right person if you:**

+ Demonstrate grit and extreme ownership

+ Exude positivity

+ Aren’t afraid to share your ideas

+ Meet problems head-on and view them as opportunities

+ Are self-reliant and motivated

+ Communicate fearlessly

Got what it takes? We’d love to hear from you.

**Additional Information**

Digitas is an equal opportunity employer.

“Compensation Range: $115,500 - $181,500 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. For this role, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off.” If your requirements fall outside of this range, you are still welcome to apply. The Company anticipates the application window for this job posting will end 08/02/2024.

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