Director of Project Management

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🔥 13 hours ago

🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $125k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👷‍♀️ Project Manager

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Social Driver

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51 - 200 employees

📣 Marketing

☁️ SaaS

Marketing • Communications • SaaS

Social Driver is a company dedicated to transforming complexity into clarity through people-centered digital strategies. They specialize in digital and social media marketing, audience research, digital advocacy, and diverse advertising approaches, including social media and B2B & B2C strategies. Additionally, Social Driver offers services in website design, development, and management, as well as content strategy, SEO, SEM, and communications strategy. Their work often involves advocacy, corporate communications, social responsibility, and multimedia content creation, including videos and animation. Social Driver collaborates with associations, nonprofits, and corporations to enhance communication and engagement, creating impactful digital experiences.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop the project management team and PM Administrator. • Manage, mentor, and develop project managers at every level. • Recruit, onboard, and retain strong project managers. • Set expectations by level and provide feedback, growth plans, and promotion recommendations. • Advocate for staffing, tools, training, recognition, and professional development needs. • Own setup of complex, multidisciplinary engagements, including plans, roles, sequencing, and commitments. • Set cross-department sequencing standards and resolve conflicts with production leaders. • Ensure projects and retainers run from clear plans tied to client goals and documented direction. • Serve as escalation point for delivery issues. • Own PM assignment and capacity, including weekly capacity reviews and workload balancing. • Partner with Creative Services on capacity, resourcing, timing, and allocation models. • Build a blended staffing model using full-time, contract, and freelance PM support. • Ensure primary and backup coverage plans for accounts. • Run the delivery side of the daily cross-functional portfolio cadence. • Own the shared PM inbox and response-time standards. • Own PM standards and playbooks for setup, kickoffs, timelines, status reporting, retrospectives, and close-out. • Strengthen Asana, Harvest, Google Workspace, and Slack workflows and shared records. • Use budget burn, utilization, on-time delivery, and escalation data to improve delivery. • Partner with Sales on contract-to-kickoff readiness and provide delivery input for renewals, change orders, and next phases. • Identify and properly route out-of-scope requests. • Partner with Finance on forecasting, month-end time and budget reviews, and margin visibility. • Monitor project health and act early on scope growth, revisions, slipping dates, and budget burn. • Ensure internal review and quality control before client delivery. • Turn recurring delivery problems into improved processes, training, and accountability. • Lead select complex or high-visibility engagements directly and provide hands-on coverage when needed.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of project management experience in a digital, marketing, or communications agency, or a similar client-service environment. • 3+ years leading a team of project managers, ideally five or more, including hiring, development, and performance management. • Has built a PM cadence, standards, or operating model, not only run one they inherited. • Has negotiated capacity, priorities and timelines with production, creative or development leaders as a peer. • A track record leading large, multidisciplinary programs across web and digital, creative, content, social, paid media and communications. • Strong command of resourcing, budgeting, forecasting and burn tracking across fixed-fee, retainer and time-and-materials work. • Comfortable leading change and building inside a model that is still forming. • Exceptional communication skills, including leading internal and client meetings and presenting to C-level audiences. • Strong emotional intelligence and skill navigating complex team dynamics. • Proficiency with Asana, Harvest, Google Workspace, Slack, and Excel. • Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience. • PMP or similar certification preferred. • Website development experience on WordPress, Drupal, or similar platforms preferred. • Experience running blended staffing models with contractors and freelancers preferred. • Experience with nonprofit, association, advocacy, or mission-driven clients preferred. • Comfort using AI tools to streamline planning, reporting, and documentation preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible PTO • 401k • Continuing education • Phone reimbursement • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Short-term disability • Long-term disability • Bike-share membership • Flexible work schedules • “Fast Lane” • “No Meeting Fridays” • Great colleagues

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