Marketing Project Manager (Temporary)
About The Position
Burton is a purpose-led brand focused on snowboarding and the outdoors, committed to positive social and environmental impact. This freelance Project Management role will focus on project execution workflows and creative execution and delivery within the marketing roadmap. The position requires a positive, unbiased, confident, collaborative attitude and an ability to adapt processes in an organized and detail-oriented mindset. This role requires strong partnership with our Creative and Content teams throughout the creative development and production process. The PM will support project execution by ensuring clear project and resource plans, alignment on creative deliverables, and effective cross-collaboration and stakeholder management. The ideal candidate has 5-7 years of experience managing marketing or creative campaigns, is comfortable running day-to-day project execution workflows, collaborates well with cross-functional teams, and is organized and an efficient communicator.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 5-7 years of project management experience, particularly in schedule creation and management
- Experience working with Marketing and/or Creative teams preferred
- Experience with Microsoft Teams, Smartsheet, or similar PM tools preferred
- Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as a member of a team
- Ability to self-motivate, adapt, prioritize, and multi-task in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to positively influence others and take responsibility for outcomes
- Strong communication, organizational, and multi-tasking skills, with a positive, people-oriented attitude
- Capability to develop and present succinct status summaries and reports for stakeholders
- Desire to obtain and implement feedback on a regular basis
- Ability to manage and distill large amounts of information
- Creative thinking and ability to approach problems from many angles
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with Marketing and/or Creative teams
- Experience with Microsoft Teams, Smartsheet, or similar PM tools
Responsibilities
- Establish clear project plans, monitor schedules, and maintain project documentation
- Ensure effective communication to project teams and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle
- Oversee project milestone planning and ensure project team accountability to milestones
- Guide project teams from project planning through close
- Lead regular project team standups to facilitate work completion, decision making, and risk assessment
- Anticipate and communicate project risks and recommend mitigation strategies
- Track project progress and provide accurate status updates and reporting
- Organize and motivate internal and external creative teams for seamless execution and delivery
- Contribute to resource planning and task prioritization
- Coordinate with the Marketing Operations PM team to ensure project timing and resource plans align with the broader portfolio
- Manage external vendor and freelance relationships to ensure quality and timely deliverables
- Contribute to optimizing creative execution workflows to ensure scalability and efficiency across projects
- Support the maintenance of tools and processes that enable collaboration, accountability, and transparency for project teams and stakeholders
- Contribute to creative quality by supporting adherence to brand guidelines and production readiness through quality control processes
- Support change management by monitoring tool/process adoption, identifying roadblocks, and recommending improvements
- Partner with creative and marketplace teams to define project objectives and drive execution
- Serve as a trusted operational partner by ensuring clear communication, alignment, and accountability across functions
Benefits
- This is a temporary position.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
