Creative Project Manager (US - Contract)
Salary/Hourly Rate:
$60 - $70 per hour
Onsite/Remote:
Please note that this role is only available in the following locations: New York, NY or Chicago, IL, in alignment with our flexible work model which requires employees to be in office at least two days a week. We are unable to offer relocation assistance for this role
Position Overview:
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Why Join Us?
To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
The E Studio team is searching for a Creative Project Manager who can learn quickly, think innovatively and strategically about the custom needs of our partners with the aim of achieving each brand’s goals simultaneously. This individual will oversee custom advertising and media solutions projects globally, working cross functionally with various areas of the business – including sales, legal, media planning and insights reporting, account management, finance, and Brand Marketing and Global Comms.
The successful candidate will facilitate project planning and operational excellence across integrated marketing and media partnerships. As a proactive, strategic thinker who strives for continuous improvements, this person will steward day-to-day project management of our global projects expanding beyond partner campaigns, and include operationalizing new initiatives and solutions. This individual will ensure that all requirements and deliverables are met, tracking thoroughly with various tools, and communicating with stakeholders effectively.
This individual must be detail oriented, technically minded and enjoy problem solving. They will also have some account management responsibilities, maintaining relationships with partners throughout and beyond the campaign phase. We are looking for a candidate who thrives in a fast-paced, team-oriented and entrepreneurial environment. The ideal candidate will have a passion for creativity and will help foster campaign executions, be driven, resourceful and forward thinking. Person should thrive for process and organization.
This is a temporary 12-month assignment with the potential for extension or conversion into a full-time role.
Responsibilities of the Creative Project Manager:
- End-to-end implementation and project management of campaigns with media partners
- Oversee program development and launches for new commercial solutions
- Assist team in managing intake of all projects/assignments, validating requests, and allocating resources
- Liaise with internal project stakeholders including legal, brand marketing, finance, and campaign management
- Manage and optimize project timelines and team deliverables; identify timeline impacts and resource conflicts and deadlines
- Act as a liaison between the studio and the client - clearly communicate issues, expectations, deliverables, questions, etc. To maintain project integrity
- Liaise with external vendor partners on contracting, production workflows, and invoicing
- Responsible for acting as a secondary liaison between internal teams and assigned clients
- Perform campaign risk assessments and critical path analyses to ensure team results are being appropriately supervised and met. This could include the development of any necessary risk mitigation strategies
- Work across UK and US time zones
Qualifications of the Creative Project Manager:
- A minimum of 5+ years of creative project management experience
- Experience working with Salesforce, Jira, Clickup, Monday.com, Smartsheets, SharePoint, and/or other project management and collaboration tools
- Advanced experience with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word is ideal
- Basic knowledge of HTML
- Excellent communication
- Exceptional project manager - extremely organized, proactive and highly motivated
- Attention to detail in executing complex projects and time-sensitive deliverables
- Demonstrated professionalism interacting with all levels of management (Excellent negotiation and influencing skills)
- Strong people skills
- Must have the ability to manage difficult and challenging situations
- Ability to prioritize conflicting priorities
- Ability to understand new technology rapidly
- Enjoy interaction with external partners and strive for excellence
- Experience working with global teams
Please note contractors are engaged to provide services to Expedia Group on a temporary basis in connection with a specific assignment. Contractors are hired and employed through Atrium, our third-party payrolling partner.
As a woman-owned firm, Atrium values diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
This job posting is for a temporary role as an employee of Atrium on assignment at Expedia. The individual selected for this role will be offered the role as an employee of Atrium; compensation, medical benefits, fringe benefits and other terms and conditions of employment shall be presented by Atrium upon offer. The pay rate range provided is a reasonable estimate of the anticipated compensation range for this job at the time of posting. The actual pay rate will be based on a number of factors, including skills, competencies, experience, location and/or being pursued and other job-related factors permitted by law. In addition, this role will be eligible for overtime pay, in accordance with federal and state requirements.
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