Marketing Project Manager

Daktronics•Brookings, SD

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Daktronics is seeking a Marketing Project Manager to address identified gaps in marketing operations, including the lack of a single source of truth across market segments and the martech stack, manual hand-offs, and no consolidated view of marketing budgets or project status. This role will own end-to-end marketing project management, coordinate functional teams towards shared deadlines, manage budget lines with discipline, and build a centralized repository to ensure the marketing organization has visibility, accountability, and stays on schedule. This position is located in Brookings, SD.

Requirements

Five (5)+ years leading marketing project management or project management functions.
Experience coordinating cross-functional teams without relying on direct authority.
Proven track record managing marketing campaigns and initiatives from concept through delivery.
Strong command of project management methodologies (Agile, waterfall, or hybrid) applied to marketing.
Experience with marketing project management tools (e.g., Asana, monday.com, Wrike, Jira).
Demonstrated ability to coordinate diverse teams and working styles toward shared deadlines.
Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
Comfortable working across creative, technical, and business stakeholders.
Proven experience owning and managing marketing budgets across multiple concurrent projects.
Strong financial acumen and comfort with budget forecasting and reporting.
Experience presenting budget status to leadership.
Experience building and administering centralized project management or work management systems.
Strong systems and process orientation.
Familiarity with martech and project management platform integration.
Experience building collaborative, high-performing team cultures across matrixed or distributed teams.
Track record of mentoring and developing talent within a function.
Strong coordination skills, ensuring seamless communication and handoffs across cross-functional teams.
Bachelors degree in marketing, project management, business administration or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Effectively exercise discretion and independent judgment.
Fluent in English, written and verbal.
Applicants must be 18 years of age or older.
Daktronics does not sponsor, renew, or extend immigration visas for this position.

Responsibilities

Lead the marketing project management function and coordinate with embedded personnel and functional leads across every business segment.
Set clear standards for how projects are scoped, staffed, and tracked across the function.
Own end-to-end project management for marketing initiatives from scoping and timelines through delivery.
Translate marketing strategy and vertical priorities into structured, trackable project plans.
Proactively surface risks, bottlenecks, and resourcing conflicts before they impact delivery.
Act as the central point of coordination across Creative & Content, Digital & Social, Market Strategists, Trade Show, Events & Associations, and Corporate Communication functions.
Facilitate planning and status meetings that keep every workstream aligned and moving.
Manage external agency and vendor coordination alongside internal marketing teams.
Own marketing project budgets, tracking spend against plan across every initiative.
Monitor burn rate and resource allocation, flagging issues before they become overruns.
Provide regular, accurate budget and status reporting to Marketing leadership.
Build and maintain a centralized repository of record for all marketing projects, assets, and initiatives replacing fragmented spreadsheets and email threads with one source of truth.
Select and administer the marketing project management platform and ensure consistent adoption across teams.
Standardize intake, briefing, and approval processes across the marketing organization.
Foster a culture of collaboration and open coordination across every marketing function.
Build professional growth paths and development opportunities for project management team members.
Ensure seamless coordination and handoffs across central functions, embedded roles, and business units.