Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aquent Studios is a global creative studio delivering scalable creative services for recognized brands, including digital design, UI/UX, video, content, print design, and web development. The Senior Project Manager will lead end-to-end communications initiatives, oversee enterprise intake and governance processes, coordinate cross-functional resources, and improve operational workflows for a defense and aerospace client.
Responsibilities
- Lead high-priority client communications initiatives from initial intake through final execution, translating strategic objectives into detailed project plans, milestones, dependencies, and decision points
- Facilitate high level cross-functional collaboration, serving as a confident daily point of contact for senior leadership, key enterprise stakeholders, and external agency partners
- Establish project governance, meeting cadences, decision rights, and clear escalation paths for complex, multi-discipline efforts
- Maintain portfolio visibility into project health, status, scope, and critical decisions while developing polished, executive-ready dashboards, status reports, and briefings
- Proactively address bottlenecks, scope creep, resource constraints, and competing priorities before they create downstream delays
- Serve as the PM lead for the client's Gated Strategic Priorities Review process, managing intake, pre-read development, meeting logistics, and decision documentation
- Gate-track initiatives from planning through execution and evaluation, maintaining accountability across action items, timelines, and dependencies
- Identify recurring bottlenecks in the gated process to continuously refine governance, workflows, and resource alignment
- Act as the primary PM point of contact for enterprise strategic requests that fall outside standard business or account team alignment
- Assess incoming requests for scope, urgency, complexity, dependencies, and resource requirements to help leadership determine ownership and governance paths
- Maintain visibility across the enterprise portfolio to identify competing demands, resolve resource conflicts, and consolidate overlapping efforts
- Coordinate cross-functional resources across Brand Reputation teams, account leads, creative leads, and external agency vendors
- Partner with discipline leads to assess capacity constraints, establish production timelines, and balance workloads
- Utilize Workfront and other enterprise PM tools to drive team accountability, workflow efficiency, and transparent reporting
- Manage project administrative needs, including cost estimates, vendor requirements, procurement processes, and archive documentation
- Conduct post-initiative evaluations to capture performance outcomes, metrics, and lessons learned
- Remain agile and receptive to shifting plans, identifying operational patterns across intake, resourcing, and execution to propose systemic solutions rather than quick fixes
Skills
- 8+ years of senior project management experience within an agency, managed services environment, or embedded corporate model, including experience collaborating with external agencies and vendor partners
- Highly polished, articulate, and well-spoken, with no hesitation in communicating with, influencing, and presenting to executive-level stakeholders
- Exceptional organizational and problem-solving skills with a track record of identifying operational bottlenecks, resolving complex conflicts, and staying flexible through changing project scopes
- Advanced proficiency in Workfront (or similar enterprise PM tools) and comfort working within a PC/VPN virtual environment
- Willingness and ability to undertake up to 25% domestic travel as required by project demands and executive syncs
Benefits
- The opportunity to engage with the largest and most influential companies in the world
- Personal growth
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