Creative Project Management Lead

About Athena

Athena is a marketing consultancy where great ideas take flight. With a blend of strategic thinking creative vision and hands-on execution we partner with organizations looking to transform their presence reputation and performance. For over ten years weve delivered business insights marketing strategies and brand activations for leading organizations in industries ranging from telecommunications to major league sports.

Our people make Athena Athena. As a 2025 Philadelphia Inquirer Top Workplace we take pride in fostering a work environment where passion meets excellence. Our people are solutions-oriented individuals who eagerly roll up their sleeves to make work that works while sharing a couple of laughs along the way.

About the Role
Were looking for a highly organized solutions-driven Creative Project Management Lead to support our client-facing Project Managment team across a growing portfolio of work. This role sits at the center of our creative departmentoverseeing team resourcing optimizing project workflows coaching project managers and ensuring high-quality execution across the board.

What youll be responsible for:

Creative Operations & Project Enablement

• Build and evolve best practices for briefing planning and creative delivery across all mediums (digital print photo/video social etc.)
• Create and refine tools and templates to improve consistency and reduce friction across projects
• Support project managers with timelines scoping risk management and troubleshooting
• Act as a go-to resource for the creative team on workflow prioritization and cross-functional coordination
• Help PMs navigate client dynamics - supporting with communication expectation-setting and escalation as needed

Creative Team Resourcing

• Manage weekly resourcing workflows and team assignments across all active creative projects
• Monitor capacity flag risks early and balance workload based on availability and skill set
• Collaborate with creative and account leads to prioritize and assign work

Team Management & Coaching

• Manage and mentor a small team of creative project managers
• Provide ongoing feedback support professional development and help the team operate at a high level
• Personally lead a select number of high-profile projects- especially those that are cross-functional fast-moving or strategically important to the business
• Model strong client partnership- bringing both strategic thinking and a calm solutions-oriented presence to external conversations

Platform & Process Oversight

• Serve as a point person for our project management tools ensuring systems are optimized for team needs
• Lead process improvements that make our creative operations smoother smarter and more scalable
• Support onboarding and training of new PMs and creative team members on tools and workflows

The skills and experience you should have:

• 57 years of experience in creative operations project management or resourcing within an agency or in-house creative team
• Proven experience leading project teams and owning senior-level client relationships
• Familiarity with creative workflows across digital print video and social
• Experience resourcing cross-functional teams and leading department-wide prioritization conversations
• Strong communication skills and the ability to navigate multiple stakeholders with care and clarity
• Comfort with project management tools (e.g. Workfront) and experience implementing or scaling operational systems

Its a plus if you have:

• Experience building or scaling creative operations in a growing organization
• Confidence writing or reviewing creative briefs and scopes of work
• Experience mentoring other project managers or developing training programs
• A calm collaborative presenceeven when things get messy

• Medical/Dental benefits including of 1K Health Reimbursement Account
• Matching 401K
• Generous PTO policy
• Substantial Parental Leave Policy
• Hybrid Work Environment (3 days on-site in Camden NJ or Philadelphia PA)
  

Curious about your career path at Athena This role is within a rapidly growing creative department and the right candidate can excel produce great work and have an immediate impact on Athenas creative product culture and growth.

Oh and our application process is open easy as transparent as we can make it and painless. We need team members like you to join us! Lets get started.

Athena is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance in applying for a position please contact us at 866.299.6040.