Senior Project Manager (Digital Producer)

Sia

$110K — $120K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-5+ years of project management experience in an ad agency
  • Experience managing 360 integrated campaigns with resource allocation
  • Proven ability in client-facing roles and managing relationships
  • Solution-oriented mindset with anticipation of roadblocks
  • Skilled in project management tools (Kantata preferred) and budget management
  • Deep familiarity with creative production workflows

Responsibilities

  • Lead the execution of large-scale, integrated projects across various channels
  • Act as a trusted client partner, managing conversations and expectations
  • Mentor and guide mid-level and junior project staff
  • Make strategic decisions regarding budgets, timelines, and priorities
  • Oversee project financials, ensuring profitability and effective resource allocation

Benefits

  • Healthcare coverage with multiple plan options
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare expenses
  • Generous paid time off and parental leave
  • 401(k) plan with 4% matching from day one
  • Wellness programs offered through the medical plan, including gym reimbursements
Full Job Description
Our Senior Project Manager role revolves around leading the planning and execution of marketing and advertising initiatives for our clients - but beyond project delivery, we're looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of integrated campaign orchestration and client partnership. This position leans more toward a senior-level project management function, overseeing programs that span multiple disciplines and service types. The focus of our production team lies in project managing the multifaceted, cross-channel campaigns we deliver - from websites and social media to mobile apps, paid media, and emerging technology activations. These initiatives often integrate creative, digital, strategic, and performance components, requiring a Senior PM who can connect the dots across teams and bring complex visions to life. Your Impact • Project Manager Extraordinaire: As a Senior Project Manager at Sia Experience, you're orchestrating the seamless execution of large-scale, integrated projects - often with multiple workstreams running in parallel. You know how to bring together social, web, paid, content, and digital experience initiatives into cohesive campaigns that deliver real business outcomes. • Bridge Master & Client Partner: You're more than a communicator - you're a trusted partner to our clients. Your ability to lead conversations, manage expectations, and confidently present strategies and recommendations is a key reason clients choose to work with us. You can translate business goals into project requirements and ensure they're executed flawlessly by internal teams and external partners. • Team Mentor and Leader: As the Project Shepherd, you lead the way for the project team, offering mentorship and guidance to mid-level and junior staff. Your leadership fosters collaboration across creative, media, strategy, and technology functions, ensuring projects stay aligned and teams stay motivated. • Strategic Decision-Maker: You're responsible for making pivotal decisions concerning project strategies, budgets, and timelines - often balancing competing priorities across service types. Your strategic acumen and ability to navigate complexity are invaluable assets to our agency. • Financial Steward: With oversight of multi-discipline initiatives often involving larger budgets, you bring rigor to budget estimation and resource allocation. Your proficiency in forecasting and financial management keeps projects profitable and clients confident. What Success Looks Like • Integrated Planning Precision: Projects spanning social, paid, digital, web, and creative channels are seamlessly orchestrated and consistently delivered on time, reinforcing trust and reliability. • Client Partnership Excellence: You're seen as an extension of the client's team - leading meetings, proactively communicating updates, and guiding them through complex decisions with confidence and clarity. • Workflow Mastery and Fiscal Excellence: Your precision in planning, scoping, and budgeting drives profitability while delivering cost-efficient, high-impact work. • Exceeding Expectations: Projects consistently outperform benchmarks, driving visibility, engagement, and measurable ROI. • Team Synergy: Your leadership fosters seamless collaboration across departments and service lines, creating a more productive, innovative work environment. • Company Prosperity: Your track record of delivering complex, integrated work contributes to agency growth, client retention, and industry recognition. Qualifications • 4-5+ years of project management in an ad agency environment, with a heavy focus on 360 integrated campaigns • Able to speak to project manager roles where you were responsible for allocating resources to 360 campaigns, burning budgets and estimating projects • Proven experience managing campaigns that span multiple service types - including social, paid media, digital/web builds, creative production, video and emerging platforms. • Demonstrated success in client-facing roles, including managing day-to-day relationships, leading meetings and presentations, and acting as a strategic point of contact. • Proactive, solution-oriented mindset; ability to anticipate roadblocks specific to paid media workflows. • Skilled in project management tools (Kantata a plus), budget burn, resource allocation, drafting meeting recaps and media workflow platforms. • Deep Familiarity with creative production workflows Additional Information Compensation & Benefits New York compensation for this opportunity ranges between $110,000 and $120,000. Actual compensation within that range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, and qualifications. • Salary + Annual Discretionary Bonus • Healthcare coverage that includes 3 medical plan options: Anthem - EPO HSA, EPO HSA MERP, and PPO; dental and vision through MetLife; and life insurance policies through Mutual of Omaha • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) • Paid Time Off • Parental leave paid at 100% of base pay for all new parents • 9 Company Holidays + 1 Floating Holiday • 401(k) Plan - 4% matching and vested on day 1 • College save-up plan & college loan repayment plan • Monthly cell phone stipend • Pre-tax account for Parking and Mass Transit • Sia provides several wellness and incentive programs free of charge through the firm medical plan - Anthem - such as: • Gym Reimbursement • LiveHealth Online • Well-being Coach • Building Healthy Families Program Office Workplace Guidelines Sia is committed to providing a flexible workplace environment that supports client, business, and market needs. Consultants located in our primary market office locations-New York City, Charlotte, Seattle, and San Francisco-are expected to live within a reasonable commuting distance and attend the office at least three days per week. For Consultants outside of our primary markets, we can offer more flexible in-person requirements in accordance with your location.

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