The Idea Girl is looking for Project Manager

The Idea Girl

is looking for Project Manager

New York, NY

ABOUT US

The Idea Girl is a NYC based creative agency with an intuitive approach to launching business concepts into a human-first world. We launch start-ups, products, and platforms where the heart, mind, and soul reside. Our clientele is composed of groundbreaking startups, lady-led founders, and existing companies who dare to disrupt within their category.

As a team of tapped in millennials, we believe in culture over clout to create products and campaigns that make our world a better place. We rely on out-of-the-box thinking, chilling research, creative expression, and flexing our intuitive muscles to launch business ideas out of notepads and onto shelves. Serving the wellness, beauty, fashion, and lifestyle industries, we build turnkey brands designed for people who are more than just a target profile. We are looking for tenacious go-getters who are seeking transcendental growth and inspiration within a fast-paced environment that helps make the world-go-round.

PREFERRED SKILLS & CORE COMPETENCIES

  • Works across multi-disciplinary internal teams through all facets of client programs

  • Developing and maintaining multiple project plans, including deliverables, key milestones, timelines, and schedules

  • Partnering with agency account, creative and social/digital teams and key client stakeholders to identify and resolve project issues

  • Ensuring the highest quality standards in all client deliverables

  • Manage external resource partners as necessary

  • Diligently working to identify process improvements related to program management

  • Ability to maintain focus under pressure, be thorough, and keep a positive attitude. Ability to understand the outcome, not just the process.

  • Extremely high standards for work and behavior; accountable, reliable, and dependable. Acute attention to detail and accuracy.

  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to break down complex information.

  • Proficient in project scoping, project planning, resource management, timeline creation, and risk management.

  • Experience managing medium-to-large scale projects with various disciplines and stakeholders, including multi-agency teams. Be comfortable managing and influencing people who are not direct reports, as well as director-level and management personnel.

  • Ability to drive multiple projects and streams of work concurrently while meeting deadlines and maintaining proper documentation and reporting.

  • Easily recognized as the person who can answer questions on projects, process, and everyday activities around the team and client.

  • Ability to work independently to tackle problems and direct to solutions. Be highly adaptable, able to anticipate issues and needs before they arise and take the necessary steps to alleviate and/or mitigate.

  • Leverage project management tools (Clickup, Slack, etc.) to manage day-to-day operations, automate tasks, ensure quality, and promote process efficiencies to maximize efficiency and manage project budgets.

  • Knowledge and experience with Google Suites, Adobe Suites, and ClickUp.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

  • Part-time

  • $30 - $35 hourly


ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Responsible for project communications and process adherence across multi-agency and -discipline teams.

  • Responsible for understanding project scope and preventing scope creep.

  • Identify shifts in timing, deliverables, and resources while communicating potential impacts.

  • Develop and manage project timelines based on hour needed to complete the deliverables required.

  • Able to break project down into small pieces (stages) and understand the deliverables at each stage.

  • Determine and manage project burn reporting with finance team including tracking, mitigating, and reporting on a weekly and monthly basis.

  • Working with Account Management lead, ensure process, documentation, reporting, and other enhancements are enacted as needed in order to ensure client satisfaction and optimal product delivery.

  • Capture lessons learned throughout a project and apply lessons to future projects, as well as develop and implement plans for best practice enhancements and improvements.

  • Engage and manage appropriate talent and resource allocation at all project stages.

  • Manage and communicate with risk management tools on a daily basis.

  • Ability to perform qualitative and quantitative risk management with skill and confidence. Ability to accurately articulate risk management/mitigation plans and escalate high risk issues with management.

  • Define, manage, and mitigate risks, including taking a proactive, approach to solve issues before they arise or manage as they come up.

  • Ensure involvement of the appropriate teams during each project phase.

  • Drive open and honest communications across all teams to ensure no roadblocks in projects.


REQUIREMENTS

  • 2+ years of project management experience within an advertising agency or with multi-agency teams across disciplines.

  • Solid track record of successfully leading projects from initiation to completion on time, on budget, and within scope, including resource management.

JOIN OUR TEAM!

Please be sure to send us the following via email in order to be considered for this role: jobs@theideagirl.co

  • Cover Letter

  • Resume

  • Portfolio

We can’t wait to meet you!

Jorge Del Pinal