Project Manager

The Program partners with the world’s most competitive and innovative brands to develop highly strategic, creative, and technical solutions. We are dedicated to creating meaningful connections between lifestyle brands and people in a collaborative and communicative environment. We are fueled by the desire to grow and perfect our craft by learning from one another.

Our project managers possess an innate ability to navigate strategy, creative, technology, content, and client-brand partnerships. They own the entirety of the project process, ensuring no detail goes unnoticed and untouched. As a company cornerstone, they are solely dedicated to the success of every project and our clients’ business. 

We're hiring a Bend, Oregon based Project Manager to join our team. Candidates must be outdoor enthusiasts and knowledgable of hunting. Project Managers at The Program possess an innate ability to navigate strategy, creative, technology, content, and client-brand partnerships. Owning the entirety of the project process, ensuring no detail goes unnoticed and untouched, Project Managers help produce deliverable requirements and documentation, oversee timelines, budgets, and resources while motivating teams and managing partnerships with confidence.

*Note: although this is not a content production / video production focused position, you will work across the content landscape in partnership, from time to time, with a content producer and content creatives.

Responsibilities

• Manage client-specific projects throughout the lifecycle including project kickoff, monitoring project progress, ensuring on-time delivery and timely invoicing.
• Understanding of each team member's strengths and ability to resource them accordingly.
• Translates client requests and requirements into detailed briefs, and solution based plans to ensure client needs and expectations within timeline and budget.
• Gain an intimate understanding of each project, collaborating in a cross-functional creative process, partnering with strategy, creative, and production teams to hit defined benchmarks.
• A growing ability to motivate people in a smooth, organized manner, promoting urgency without panic, confident direction over indecision.
• Define potential problems and suggest alternatives based upon cost implications, time constraints, and customer quality standards.
• Organize process and workflow across project workstreams.
• Manage project administration such as production status, schedules, resource requests, budget management, and reporting, working across departments and teams.
• Communicate risks, opportunities, and solutions to team and partners
• Contribute to creative and strategy pitches, briefs, and reviews. Work closely with strategy, creative, and technology teams in the development of new business, including pitching, scoping, and estimating new projects.
• Support client and project deliverables, strategic requirements. Manage expectations against reality.
• Effective presentation and communication skills.
• Manage creative, technical, and production team members, in addition to outside vendors, to ensure all work achieves an outcome that exceeds client expectations.
• Ability to lift up to 40lbs of gear from time to time to lend a hand. 
• Reliable vehicle and drivers license, willing to drive to be on set, meet with client partners, etc.

Experience

• 4 years experience as a project manager or producer at an advertising agency or in-house at a brand.
• An ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment handling several ongoing projects. 
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to effectively manage multiple conflicting priorities in a rapidly changing environment.
• High proficiency in the Google Suite (Drive, Docs, etc.), Keynote, and spreadsheets, Asana, Airtable, and other project management tools.

Details

• Candidates must be based in or around the Bend, Oregon area, working remotely with our Portland, Oregon office, and with key clients in the Bend area.
• Must be an outdoor enthusiast. Hunting experience a plus.
• The salary band for this role is $60,000-$75,000.
• We provide a competitive benefits package that includes paid holidays, vacation/personal time, 401k matching, 401k loans, health, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance, paid paternity and maternity leave, and more.