About the Role
The Senior Project Manager leads the end-to-end delivery of social-first influencer and creator marketing campaigns, ensuring projects are planned strategically, executed seamlessly, and delivered on time, within scope, on budget, and in line with client objectives. They act as the operational lead, establishing project governance, aligning stakeholders, managing risk, and overseeing resources and budgets. The role also involves championing operational excellence, improving processes, and elevating project management best practices to support agency growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex social-first influencer and creator marketing campaigns.
- Establish project governance, delivery approach, success measures, and project plans.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration, alignment, and accountability across various teams and external partners.
- Anticipate risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges, implementing mitigation plans.
- Lead project initiation, including kick-offs, timelines, milestones, and resource planning.
- Define project scope, delivery plans, and workflows in partnership with cross-functional teams.
- Oversee project execution, ensuring deliverables meet quality expectations and client objectives.
- Facilitate project reviews, approvals, and key decision points.
- Manage project workflows and task allocation, ensuring effective resource utilization.
- Implement timely solutions to maintain momentum and minimize escalations.
- Oversee project financial health, including budgets, burn rates, forecasting, reconciliations, and profitability.
- Partner with Operations to manage resource allocation, utilization, and capacity planning.
- Manage project scope, change requests, and commercial impacts.
- Monitor project performance and recommend adjustments.
- Build trusted relationships with internal stakeholders, team members, clients, and external partners.
- Provide clear communication on project status, risks, timelines, and recommendations.
- Facilitate project governance, ensuring timely decision-making and stakeholder alignment.
- Manage expectations while balancing client needs, strategic and creative ambition, and operational priorities.
- Facilitate transparent communication across cross-functional teams.
- Lead with positivity and accountability, fostering a collaborative team environment.
- Champion project management standards, governance, and best practices.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, workflows, and ways of working.
- Drive the adoption and optimization of project management tools and systems.
- Lead project retrospectives, capturing key learnings and translating insights into improvements.
- Mentor and coach Project Managers, supporting their growth through feedback and guidance.
- Provide leadership on complex delivery challenges and project management best practices.
- Foster a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing project management culture.
- Support onboarding, capability building, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Advocate for the project management function by building trust and fostering strong partnerships.
Requirements
- 6–8+ years of project management experience within a marketing, creative, social or integrated agency environment.
- Experience delivering influencer, creator or social-first marketing campaigns is considered an asset.
- Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional projects from initiation through delivery, managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.
- Strong understanding of project management principles, including scope management, budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, risk management and stakeholder management.
- Experience managing project financials, including budgets, forecasting, profitability, reconciliations and scope management.
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships, influence stakeholders, and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
- Exceptional communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities and enable informed decision-making.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to proactively identify risks, resolve complex delivery challenges and adapt to changing priorities.
- Experience mentoring or coaching team members and contributing to the development of project management best practices.
- Experience improving project workflows, operational processes and delivery standards to enhance efficiency and consistency.
- Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools, including Google Workspace, Smartsheet, Float, Slack and similar platforms.
Skills
- Project Management
- Influencer Marketing
- Creator Marketing
- Social Media Marketing
- Marketing Agency Operations
- Creative Agency Operations
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Budget Management
- Forecasting
- Resource Planning
- Scope Management
- Communication
- Facilitation
- Problem-Solving
- Mentoring
- Process Improvement
- Google Workspace
- Smartsheet
- Float
- Slack
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Billion Dollar Boy is an award-winning social agency with Creator Instinct®. We transform how brands grow in a creator world, inspiring them with sharper strategy and creative work designed for the places where people actually are.
- Powered by Creator Instinct®, we systematically turn cultural energy into commercial impact through structured marketing systems that deliver outcomes.
- Since 2014, BDB has partnered with iconic brands, including Heineken, Nike, Unilever, PepsiCo, and L’Oréal.
- Our agency & our work has been recognized by Cannes Lions, Adweek, AdAge, Campaign, The Drum, Webby, Shorty, and The Global Influencer Marketing Awards.
- We’re enabled by our award winning proprietary technology Companion, which provides better intelligence, greater precision, and helps prove outcomes.
- FiveTwoNine keeps us connected to qualitative cultural intelligence via a global network of creators, allowing brands and talent to effectively co-create brand messaging, campaigns, products, and more.
Equal Opportunity
- At Billion Dollar Boy, we don’t just accept change. We lead it. We believe that a diverse, inclusive team is the spark that ignites our best creative work.
- To transform how brands grow, we need the strongest convictions and the most daring perspectives. That only happens when we recruit the best talent from every possible background.
- When recruiting new employees or when affording our current employees with opportunities for promotion, we will: Recruit, develop and retain the most talented people, regardless of their background and make best use of their talents; Not discriminate unlawfully against any person; Select the best person for the job in terms of qualifications and abilities.
- Our DEI networks and initiatives give our people a voice, create meaningful conversations, and help us keep improving as a business.
