Senior Integrated Project Manager

StrawberryFrog•New York, NY

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

StrawberryFrog is a marketing and advertising agency that helps brands move with purpose. As the Integrated Project Manager, you will own end-to-end delivery, bringing core project management disciplines such as timelines, client status, budget tracking, and resourcing, combined with production fluency across video, social, digital, and AI production workflows. You will manage the day-to-day workflow, transforming creative concepts into executable plans. You will partner closely with Account Management on scope and client communications, interact regularly with senior leadership, and manage external vendor and freelance relationships. The ideal candidate is firm yet friendly, confident without ego, trusted to make decisions, and able to think on their feet.

Requirements

6 to 7 years of experience in project management, production, or integrated delivery, ideally in a creative or advertising agency, a marketing organization, or a production house environment
Familiarity with video production, social media deliverables, and digital deliverables, including the specs, timelines, and turnarounds each one really requires
Demonstrated experience managing outside vendors and freelance partners
Either hands-on AI production experience or digital and content production experience; a genuine appetite for learning AI workflows matters either way
Solid financial acumen, with the ability to build a budget from scratch, track burn, and manage closely to it
Comfort interacting with senior leadership on a daily basis
Strong communication skills, able to work closely with creative directors and account leads
Highly organized, able to manage multiple integrated timelines at once without heavy oversight

Nice To Haves

A critical thinker and problem solver, oriented towards solutions
Very sharp, an eager learner who goes looking for things they don’t know yet
High in emotional intelligence, able to read the room, a client, and the creative team
Confident, likable, collaborative, someone people want on their project
Firm yet friendly, able to hold a line on timeline, scope, budget without burning the relationship

Responsibilities

Own the full arc of a project, from scope and kickoff through internal review, client approval, and final asset handoff.
Set clear expectations for how agency and client workflows connect.
Keep every workstream visible, sequenced, and moving, and know at any moment where a project stands against its timeline and its budget.
Build and manage integrated timelines across creative, video, social, digital, and AI production workflows.
Communicate deliverable requirements and specs to creative and production teams at kickoff.
Coordinate with production partners and media team as needed.
Drive projects against tight timelines, and flag risks to the account team proactively.
Coordinate and manage outside vendors, freelancers, and partners across production, post production, and finishing.
Hold partners to the timeline and the spec without damaging the relationship.
Build budgets from the ground up and manage them closely.
Own freelance and out of pocket tracking in partnership with Finance, including tracking burn and reconciliation of jobs.
Understand how hours and out of pockets affect account health, and raise a flag early when the numbers start to move.
Partner with Account Management and the Business Leadership Team on scope writing.
Define project scopes, contribute Statement of Work assumptions, build staff plans, estimate production budgets in partnership with Business Affairs, and produce the timelines that sit behind them.
Track scope through the life of the engagement and identify when a change order conversation is needed.
Prepare for key client presentations, and contribute to status meetings.
Interface with clients and partner vendors on timelines and deliverables as needed.
Manage multiple clients or brands at once, including larger and more complex campaigns.
Serve as the liaison between business leadership, creative, production, media and account teams.
Work alongside the CCO and creative leadership daily, translating creative ambition into what is buildable in the time and money available.
Lead weekly internal team and status meetings, resource creative teams to scope, and align internal teams on deliverables.
Maintain the internal job tracker, including resource allocations.
Coordinate monthly resource reconciliation and hours reports for clients as needed.
Ensure accurate timesheets are maintained agency wide.
Ensure creative and production work is delivered on time and to spec.
Route work through internal review and approval steps.
Support delivery across all mediums, including print, digital, social, broadcast, and AI generated content.
Monitor risks and issues in real time and drive teams to solutions.
Anticipate bottlenecks, vendor availability, asset turnaround, before they become client facing problems.
Operate independently day to day, escalating only what genuinely needs it.