Senior Marketing Project Manager (11-month fixed-term employment)

Lightspeed Commerce, Inc. • Montreal, QC

22d • Remote

About The Position

Lightspeed is seeking a Senior Marketing Project Manager for an 11-month fixed-term employment to support its global marketing portfolio. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on project leadership within complex, cross-functional marketing initiatives, with a strong emphasis on product launches, campaigns, lifecycle marketing, and brand moments. The role involves translating business priorities into actionable plans, driving execution, and partnering with global stakeholders. It's ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, enjoys solving delivery challenges, and wants to contribute to evolving marketing operations.

Requirements

• Strong experience in project management, program management, marketing operations, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and tight timelines.
• Experience supporting product launches, campaigns, or large-scale marketing initiatives in fast-paced environments.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects simultaneously while maintaining strong attention to detail and execution quality.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and navigating matrixed organizations.
• Familiarity with project management methodologies, delivery frameworks, and tools such as Jira, Monday.com, Asana, Smartsheet, or similar platforms.
• Fluency in English as a working language is required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working across global or multi-region teams is considered an asset.
• Experience in SaaS, fintech, payments, or similarly fast-moving environments is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex marketing initiatives across a broad portfolio of work, including product launches, campaigns, lifecycle marketing programs, and key brand moments.
• Translate high-level ideas into clear, actionable project plans with defined scope, timelines, owners, milestones, and dependencies.
• Manage a portfolio of concurrent initiatives - balancing multiple high-priority, cross-functional projects alongside smaller tactical workstreams while maintaining clarity, momentum, and alignment.
• Anticipate risks, dependencies, and competing priorities early, proactively recommending solutions and trade-offs to keep work moving forward.
• Serve as the connective tissue across teams, ensuring priorities stay aligned and projects move efficiently from planning through execution.
• Build and maintain detailed project plans, including timelines, workback schedules, stakeholder alignment, risk mitigation, and execution readiness plans.
• Keep complex projects moving by proactively driving accountability, facilitating decisions, and removing blockers.
• Lead project forums, stakeholder meetings, and status updates with confidence and clarity - tailoring communication appropriately for working teams, senior leaders, and executives.
• Ensure projects are well organized, documented, and effectively managed through established tools and workflows (e.g., Jira, Monday.com, project trackers).
• Track progress against milestones, surface issues early, and help teams navigate ambiguity without losing momentum.
• Partner closely with internal stakeholders across Product Marketing, Brand, Creative, Content, Legal, regional teams, and other cross-functional partners to drive successful delivery.
• Build strong working relationships with stakeholders up to the Senior Director and VP level, acting as a trusted partner in planning, prioritization, and execution.
• Facilitate alignment across global teams operating across different time zones, business priorities, and market needs.
• Bring a thoughtful, pragmatic approach to stakeholder management - balancing business needs, timelines, and execution realities.

Benefits

• Lots of autonomy
• flexible work culture
• the option of fully remote work
• Opportunity to make a difference; help merchants grow their businesses and become more successful by creating or improving products and addressing customer feedback
• Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact
• Development of very high traffic products, used at the global scale
• Opportunities to learn and expand your skill set
• Become a valued part of the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed family

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed