Are you an experienced and detail-oriented project manager with 3-5 years of experience? Does your background include creating long- and short-term plans, delegating tasks to employees best positioned to complete them, and making effective decisions when presented with multiple options for how to progress with a project? If so, we look forward to meeting with you! Freestyle Creative is seeking a Project Manager to guide our marketing and creative teams. 

Our Values
Before we jump into the job details, we thought it would be worth the time to mention a few things about Freestyle. We are an agency built on very strong core values. Our agency has H.E.A.R.T. (but we’ll leave it up to your research skills to find out  what those letters represent). We care about fostering a great work environment and benefits for our team (including a flexible remote work setup, competitive compensation, and 401k match). Our top goal is to build an agency that’s the best place to work. Culture is something we take to heart, and we make it a point to collaborate with teammates and have team-building on a frequent basis. It’s important that we know one another and build our chemistry. Our clients are awesome, and they trust us to be stewards of their business, not just the brand. Do we have your attention? Great! Keep reading to find out more about the job details, and hit apply if this matches up with what you are looking for to further your professional career.

Position Description
We are seeking an experienced, adaptable, positive, highly-motivated, and detail-oriented project manager with a strong work ethic. A qualified candidate for this position must have prior and/or current experience at a marketing firm and in project management. If this describes you, we welcome your application!

Responsibilities:

• Utilizing Freestyle’s project management software to keep all job tasks and financials organized and up to date regularly
• Working collaboratively with account service/digital marketing, creative, and operations/accounting teams
• Performing research as needed internally and for clients
• Creating estimates, schedules, and tasks for team members
• Providing detailed descriptions in individual tasks
• Forecasting timelines and finetuning job schedules based on team member availability
• Managing team calendars and planning meetings accordingly
• Managing deadlines to ensure deliverables reach clients on time and within budget
• Creating and sharing regular job health/status reports with team members and clients
• Leading Stars & Wishes meetings upon completion of jobs
• Providing quality control and proofreading on all deliverables
• Ensuring team members keep all files accessible on Freestyle’s cloud filing system with proper file naming conventions and version control on file revisions
• Working with marketing strategists and operations/accounting team to ensure invoices are sent in a timely manner
• Regularly monitoring each job’s external expenses, media buys, etc. and working with the operations/accounting team to reconcile actual expenses between Freestyle’s project management software and accounting software
• Tracking each job’s profitability by monitoring actual hours worked versus invoiced hours for all team members
• Finding innovative solutions to problems by thinking proactively and resourcefully
• Maintaining a pulse on all projects in relation to overall agency goals

Requirements:

• 3-5 years of professional industry-related experience in project management in a marketing, advertising or business related field 
• Proven work experience managing jobs/project timelines from beginning to end within scope of work and within budget
• Successful management of multiple jobs/projects simultaneously
• Ability to demonstrate and embrace Freestyle’s core values: Hustle, Evolve, Autonomy, Respect and Team 

Hours and compensation:

• Full-time salaried
• 40 hours per week (8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday - Friday)
• Flexible remote/hybrid office setup
• Salary commensurate with experience

Benefits:
Freestyle aims to foster a fun, collaborative, and creative environment. Fun fact: This year our team members used their professional development budgets to attend SXSW in Austin, TX! 

Benefits of working at Freestyle include:

• Flexible, hybrid remote work setup
• 401k 4% match after one year of employment
• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, vision, dental)
• Competitive paid time off and paid holidays
• Monthly team building
• Family leave
• Short-term disability and life insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Profit sharing opportunities after one year of employment
• Professional development budget
• Continual learning and industry networking opportunities
• Team community service and volunteer opportunities