Director, Project Management - Temporary Worker
About The Position
Dentsu Creative US is seeking a Director, Project Management, a senior leader responsible for designing and implementing integrated project-management and marketing-technology workflows across client, agency, and company teams. Adobe Workfront is the core work-management platform. The Director translates business and creative needs into scalable processes, platform configurations, governance, and integrations across the Adobe technology stack, while maintaining delivery quality, financial discipline, adoption, and continuous improvement. This is a six-month temporary W-2 position. Candidates must be authorized to work and reside in the United States. The position follows Dentsu’s hybrid working approach, with office attendance generally required two to three days per week for employees living within commuting distance of a headquarters or hub; employees farther away may be designated remote, depending on the role and business needs. Work location flexibility is expected to meet company and client needs. The hourly pay range is $105.00–$110.00. Temporary employees are eligible for paid holidays in accordance with Dentsu policy, as well as safe and sick time. The position is not eligible for other benefits or compensation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
- 8–10 years of project management, delivery, or operational transformation experience, including 1–3 years in a leadership role within an integrated agency, marketing, professional services, or similarly fast-paced environment.
- Proven experience leading complex integrated engagements and technology or business-change implementations from discovery and requirements through launch, adoption, and optimization.
- Demonstrated leadership presence and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to influence senior and C-level stakeholders, lead through ambiguity, and drive decisions across client, agency, technology, and implementation teams.
- Advanced experience leading process discovery, gathering business requirements, and translating them into future-state workflows, platform requirements, governance, roles, and measurable solutions.
- Hands-on proficiency with Adobe Workfront, including project and template design, task structures, schedules, dependencies, proofing and approvals, permissions, reporting, dashboards, resource visibility, and workflow governance.
- Working knowledge of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets/DAM and Adobe Express.
- Experience defining integration requirements across workflow, asset management, collaboration, content, activation, and other enterprise business systems, including SharePoint where applicable.
- Experience leading RAID management, testing/UAT, launch readiness, change management, training, onboarding, and adoption measurement.
- Strong financial, organizational, communication, facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills, with a collaborative, proactive, solutions-focused leadership style and commitment to quality and continuous improvement.
- Must be authorized to work and reside in the United States.
Nice To Haves
- Working knowledge of Adobe Fusion and Frame.io is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide visible leadership across client, agency, technology, implementation-partner, and company teams; facilitate decisions, align priorities and dependencies, manage escalations, and maintain accountability.
- Lead complex client engagements and the end-to-end Workfront implementation roadmap, from discovery and requirements through planning, launch, adoption, and optimization; manage milestones, dependencies, resources, budgets, scope, risks, and delivery quality.
- Lead process discovery and convert current-state pain points and business requirements into scalable workflows spanning intake, briefing, planning, resourcing, creative development, production, review and approval, asset management, publishing, and delivery.
- Connect client and agency workflows with company operating models, controls, data, and reporting requirements; clarify roles, ownership, and handoffs while reducing duplication and manual workarounds.
- Define and govern Workfront templates, task structures, roles, approval gates, service-level expectations, permissions, reporting, dashboards, resource visibility, and change requests.
- Coordinate requirements and integration points across Workfront, AEM Assets/DAM, Adobe Express, Adobe Fusion, Frame.io, SharePoint, and relevant content, activation, and business systems.
- Own implementation planning, RAID management, user acceptance testing, issue resolution, launch readiness, training, onboarding, communications, and transition to day-to-day operations.
- Monitor adoption and workflow effectiveness after launch, maintain an optimization roadmap, and identify automation and AI-enabled workflow opportunities across the content supply chain.
- Manage and develop project-management talent; maintain financial and resource discipline; reinforce project-management and operational best practices; and represent the discipline in senior leadership and new-business discussions.
Benefits
- Paid holidays in accordance with Dentsu policy
- Safe and sick time
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
