Creative Project Manager (Contract)

TYPE: 1099 Contractor

LOCATION: Remote, EST Time Zone Preferred

SCHEDULE: Project-based / hourly, based on client needs

Meet Team Thrive

We are a marketing agency making waves across education, entertainment, healthcare, social good, sports, and all the spaces where these industries intersect. Through strategic partnerships, data-driven storytelling, innovative content design, and digital marketing expertise, we accelerate purpose-driven campaigns.

We operate in a high-performing, fast-paced environment with a focus on delivering impactful, culturally relevant work that drives results for our clients.

The Role

The Creative Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and driving the successful execution of creative projects across branding, website development, digital campaigns, and content production. This role serves as the operational hub between clients, strategists, designers, developers, copywriters, and internal leadership. They ensure projects stay on schedule, within scope, and meet We Thrive Media's quality standards while creating an exceptional client experience.

This is a highly organized, proactive role requiring exceptional communication, problem solving, and project leadership. A successful candidate thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, implementing processes and raising the bar on creative deliverables. This role requires excellent project management skills, strategic and creative thinking, relationship building, problem solving, and strong communication skills with peers and leadership.

The Responsibilities

Project Planning, Scope & Budget

Lead the end-to-end management of Creative projects during the creative development phase, from intake and prioritization through execution and delivery, ensuring objectives, timelines and quality standards are achieved.
Timeline Ownership: Build and maintain workback schedules, milestones, and kickoff documentation in ClickUp.
Budget & Scope Control: Track project hours against estimates to protect profitability; identify scope creep, document change requests, and escalate out-of-scope work when necessary.
Risk Management: Proactively identify bottlenecks and schedule impacts before they become issues, offering solutions when timelines shift.

Workflow & Creative Team Management

Resource Allocation: Assign work, monitor capacity, remove blockers, and track deadlines for internal teams (designers, developers, copywriters, strategists) and external partners (freelancers, vendors).
Full-Lifecycle Management: Oversee project phases from discovery and brand strategy through design, development, copywriting, QA, and launch.
Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with clients, strategists, designers, developers, copywriters, and internal leadership to ensure work aligns with client objectives.
Proactively identify and mitigate project risks, bottlenecks, and conflicting priorities to maintain momentum.Client Communication
Lead client onboarding, run meetings, prepare agendas, send recaps, and maintain proactive communication throughout the project.
Feedback Management: Collect and consolidate client feedback, ensure it is actionable before reassigning work, and strictly track revision rounds against the approved scope.

Quality Assurance and Documentation

Conduct thorough Quality Assurance reviews (checking for brand consistency, functional accuracy, design quality, accessibility, and proofreading) before client delivery.
Maintain clean ClickUp records, decision logs, asset trackers, risk logs, and launch checklists.

This Role is Perfect For You If You…

Deliver projects on time
Maintain project profitability
Keep scope changes documented
Achieve high client satisfaction
Reduce executive involvement in day-to-day project management
Maintain accurate project data
Ensure all project milestones are met
Coordinate seamless project launches
Improve communication across internal teams
Identify risks before they impact delivery

Required Qualifications

5+ years of experience in project management within a marketing or creative agency environment.
Proven track record of managing end-to-end creative projects, including branding, web development, and digital campaigns.
Deep proficiency in project management tools (e.g., ClickUp, Asana, Monday) and digital workflows.
Strong ability to act as the primary operational partner for clients, effectively balancing empathy with firm project leadership.
Exceptional organizational skills, with the ability to manage scope, budgets, and timelines across multiple concurrent projects.
Excellent communication skills, with experience facilitating client reviews, gathering actionable feedback, and managing internal team expectations.
Ability to proactively identify project risks, bottlenecks, and dependencies to ensure successful, on-time delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience managing cross-functional teams including designers, copywriters, developers, and strategists.
Previous experience in a client-facing role within an agency, particularly in website development or branding projects.
Experience with project forecasting, resource allocation, and maintaining profitability goals.
Strong problem-solving skills, with a track record of reducing executive involvement in day-to-day project operations.

Additional Details

1099 Contractor role
Compensation: Hourly or project-based (aligned with experience and scope)
Portfolio required for consideration

Pay: $80.00 - $85.00 per hour

Work Location: Remote

We Thrive Media, LLC

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