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About the Role

Saatchi & Saatchi is seeking a Senior Digital/Technical Project Manager for an innovative AI platform initiative. This role requires a producer's mindset with strong technical fluency to translate between engineering, design, business, and clients in a fast-paced, multi-stakeholder environment.

Responsibilities

• Hold and maintain the technical mental model of the platform, acting as a translator between engineering, design, leadership, and clients.
• Provide technical thought leadership and partner with engineering and architecture on product needs.
• Plan, sequence, and drive delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams and environments.
• Run a lightweight, high-signal agile cadence that respects engineering focus time.
• Track and communicate scope, dependencies, risk, and progress across stakeholders.
• Act as the primary point of coordination for technical readiness around live events.
• Identify and resolve scope creep, conflicting priorities, and unowned work.
• Maintain living documentation for the team's mental model.
• Represent the technical reality of the program in client and leadership conversations.

Requirements

• Demonstrated track record running complex technical programs end-to-end.
• Good technical fluency to participate in architecture conversations.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional delivery across engineering, design, QA, data, infra, and external vendors.
• Comfortable working in agile, hybrid-agile, or producer-led delivery models.
• Strong stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Hands-on with modern collaboration and PM tooling (Jira, Confluence, Loop / Notion, Miro / FigJam, GitHub, Slack / Teams).
• Working understanding of modern cloud-native platforms, CI/CD, and AI/LLM-enabled products.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Located in or willing to work Toronto hours; hybrid presence expected.
• Candidates must be based in Canada with valid Canadian work authorization of at least 12 months.

Skills

• Producer instincts
• Pattern-recognition under noise
• Calm under pressure
• Translator's ear
• Bias to action
• Comfortable with chaos and ambiguity
• Generous with credit, direct with concerns, professional in conflict
• Prior experience in a Publicis Groupe or other major holding-company agency environment
• Background as a VFX producer, game producer, technical product owner, or hands-on technical solutions consultant
• Experience producing or coordinating live demo / launch events
• Exposure to AI/LLM-enabled product delivery
• PMI-ACP, CSM, or comparable agile certification
• Familiarity with GCP / GKE, contract-first integration models, or multi-tenant SaaS delivery patterns

Location

• Toronto, ON
• Remote

Work Type

• Full-time
• 12-month contract
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• $70,000–$100,000 per year

Benefits

• Up to 3 weeks vacation
• Paid closure between Christmas and New Year's
• Extended long weekends for provincial holidays
• 10 personal days per year
• Work remotely for up to 6 weeks per year from any of our 50+ global offices through our Work Your World program
• Comprehensive group coverage including: Medical, dental, and vision care
• Psychological and paramedical services
• Disability insurance
• 100% salary top up program for the first 6 weeks of parental Leave
• Corporate Membership rates at Good Life Fitness
• Free access to a financial planner

About the Company

• Saatchi & Saatchi is an advertising agency that integrates creativity, data, media, and technology to influence human behavior and drive client success.
• It is one of the world's largest agency networks with 114 offices and over 6000 employees globally.
• The Toronto office works with major brands including Toyota, Buckley's, and Children's Advil, as well as Mondelez brands.
• It is an award-winning agency recognized for creativity and effectiveness, focused on converting innovation into tangible business results.

Equal Opportunity

• Saatchi & Saatchi is committed to building a diverse workforce representative of our community.
• We encourage and are pleased to consider all qualified candidates, without regard to race, colour, citizenship, religion, sex, marital / family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, aboriginal status, age, disability or persons who may require an accommodation, to apply.
• If you require a specific accommodation please contact Human Resources at 416-925-7733 or by email at inquiries@publicisna.com.