Project Manager, Contract

Location: United States

Likeable is looking for a freelance Project Manager who is a deadline wizard, resourcing expert, and master communicator that knows how to effectively plan and collaborate to ensure every project gets done on time

The Project Manager ensures quality control throughout the life cycle of a project — from concept to deployment. Project managers are responsible for successful delivery of scoped assets to the client, including ensuring that deliverables are on time and adhere to all objectives outlined in the project brief. This position is responsible for routing feedback, sourcing needed assets from our contacts, and providing updates on deliverables to the team and/or within trackers.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Ensure the team clearly understands the status of a project throughout all phases, including completed tasks, pending deliverables, timelines and outstanding items — in and out of our project management tool.
• Perform daily project tracking including resource management, inventory allocation/tracking, and workflow supervision of multiple projects.
• Route completed assets, client feedback, revisions back and forth between client-facing calendars and our internal teams and project management software.
• Assure timelines are met, including completion dates, feedback request dates, revisioning, and ultimate completion of a project.
• Juggle multiple projects and deliverables with ease.
• Establish and maintain all creative workflow processes in an extremely fast-paced, collaborative agency environment.
• Build out and enforce internal project timelines in our project management system and work with the account management team to ensure their client-facing timelines match our internal process.
• Delegate project tasks based on individual strengths, skill sets, experience levels, and bandwidth.

Competencies

• Extremely detail-oriented with a strong ability to multitask
• Proven working experience in project management
• Technical Competence/Proficiency with PM Software such as ClickUp
• Critical thinking with the innate ability to solve problems
• A real understanding of time & resource management
• Highly organized
• Detail Oriented
• Self starter with great time management skills
• Ability to keep a team on track with what is due and when
• Accountability to timelines and calendar commitments

Requirements:

• Experience managing projects, coordinating teams, and/or other planning-related duties, preferably in the social space
• Ability to work alone, under pressure, with extremely tight deadlines
• Experience in the project management software, ClickUp
• Proficiency in Google Sheets
• Strong understanding of social content production workflows
• A cool, calm, collected approach to resourcing and problem solving
• Understanding of relevant social media platforms and their requirements

About us:
Likeable is one of the first-ever pure-play social media agencies and remain rooted in social-first thinking to this day. With a strong expertise in finance, food, and fun, we’ve been named a Top 50 Ad Agency and Top 50 Fastest-Growing Women-Owned Businesses by WPO and American Express OPEN as well as Crain’s 6th “Best Place To Work in NYC.”