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Digital Project Management Lead

PMG


Job Location:

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 30 August 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 13 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are PMG

PMG a global independent platform company engineered for impact integrates business strategy media creative and data within a single operating model powered by our proprietary operating system Alli. With more than 1000 employees PMG partners with brands including Apple Nike Dropbox Experian Sephora and Whole Foods. Our work has earned top industry honors including Cannes Lions and Adweeks Media Plan of the Year and PMG has won 40 workplace culture awards including being the only company to rank among Ad Ages Best Places to Work for 11 consecutive years.

Who You Will Be Working With

As a Digital Project Management Lead youll be at the center of bringing ambitious digital creative work to market. Youll translate creative and media strategies into organized technically accurate and timely digital deliverables while connecting teams across Creative Media Production Development Technology and Ad Operations.

This is a hands-on digital project management role for someone who understands how performance creative moves from an initial brief through scoping production quality assurance approval delivery and launch. Youll lead projects involving dynamic creative digital display banner advertising and other performance-focused assets designed to drive consideration engagement conversion and commerce outcomes.

Youll partner closely with designers writers strategists developers media teams technical specialists and external production partners. Youll bring structure to complex work anticipate dependencies and risks and create clarity around timelines resources responsibilities approvals and delivery.

You should bring a strong understanding of digital advertising formats dynamic creative technical specifications and the relationship between creative production and media activation. Just as importantly you should know how to make complex requirements clear and actionable for both technical and nontechnical partners.

What You Will Do

  • Lead Digital Projects End to End: Own digital creative projects from initial intake scoping and briefing through production QA stakeholder approval final delivery and media handoff.
  • Manage Dynamic & Performance Creative: Lead project management for dynamic creative DCO campaigns static and animated display HTML5 banners and other performance-focused digital assets.
  • Build & Own Project Plans: Develop and maintain project plans timelines resource plans deliverable trackers dependencies and approval workflows that keep complex work moving.
  • Translate Strategy Into Execution: Turn creative and media strategies into actionable project requirements ensuring teams understand formats specifications audience variations dependencies and delivery needs.
  • Coordinate Cross-Functional Teams: Bring together Creative Strategy Media Production Development Technology Ad Operations and account teams to create a seamless path from brief to launch.
  • Drive Quality & Delivery: Ensure digital assets meet brand guidelines publisher specifications ad-server requirements and media deadlines while managing QA revisions approvals and final delivery.
  • Manage Media & Ad Operations Handoffs: Coordinate the trafficking and handoff of completed creative to Media and Ad Operations teams ensuring assets are technically accurate and launch-ready.
  • Anticipate & Manage Risk: Identify scope changes dependencies resource constraints technical challenges and timeline risks early escalating appropriately and driving teams toward solutions.
  • Create Operational Visibility: Use Airtable and other project-management tools to establish clear ownership accountability project status priorities deadlines and approvals.
  • Manage Resources & Partners: Coordinate internal resources alongside freelancers vendors developers and external production partners as needed.
  • Improve How We Work: Identify workflow gaps and implement processes that make digital project delivery more efficient consistent and scalable reflecting PMGs commitment to Always Change for the Better.
  • Communicate With Clarity: Translate technical and production requirements into clear direction and maintain transparent communication with stakeholders as priorities evolve.

What You Will Bring

  • Digital Project Management Experience: Approximately 8 years of relevant digital project management integrated project management digital production or creative operations experience ideally within a creative digital integrated production or media agency.
  • Dynamic Creative Expertise: Direct hands-on experience managing dynamic creative or Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO) projects.
  • Digital Display Knowledge: Strong experience managing static animated and HTML5 banner advertising and the specifications and technical requirements associated with digital display.
  • Performance Marketing Understanding: Experience supporting mid- and lower-funnel campaigns focused on engagement conversion acquisition commerce or other measurable outcomes.
  • End-to-End Project Ownership: Demonstrated experience owning digital projects across briefs scope timelines resources dependencies production QA stakeholder reviews approvals and final delivery.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Experience coordinating Creative Media Production Development Technology and Ad Operations teams and building inclusive working relationships across disciplines.
  • Technical Fluency: Strong understanding of digital asset specifications ad-serving requirements publisher requirements QA processes trafficking and media-team handoffs.
  • Project Management Fundamentals: Strong command of project planning timelines resource management dependencies risks scope budgets and stakeholder communication.
  • Workflow & Platform Experience: Proficiency with Airtable or comparable workflow-management platforms such as Asana Jira Workfront or Smartsheet.
  • Operational Judgment: The organization attention to detail accountability and agility required to manage several high-priority projects and stakeholder groups simultaneously.
  • Clear Communication: The ability to communicate technical requirements to technical and nontechnical stakeholders influence partners and maintain alignment when priorities or timelines change.
  • Proactive Problem-Solving: A solutions-oriented approach to identifying risks resolving roadblocks and taking ownership of project outcomes while embodying PMGs Do the Right Thing and Embrace Challenges values.

What We Offer

Performance-Based Rewards: Your impact should be part of your reward. This role is eligible for PMGs annual bonus programa standout part of our total compensation offering and an opportunity to share in our success. Bonus awards are informed by individual impact and performance as well as team and company results and are subject to applicable program terms.

Professional Development: Keep growing through learning and development programs mentorship opportunities and support for career advancement.

Generous Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge connect with loved ones and enjoy life outside work.

Parental Leave: Receive paid parental leave during lifes important family moments.

Retirement Benefits: Build for your future with competitive retirement benefits including employer contributions or matching where applicable.

Fertility and Family Support: Access fertility and family-building benefits for eligible employees and their spouses or partners.

Healthcare: Choose from medical dental and vision coverage designed to support you and your family.

Pet Insurance: Access optional coverage for the four-legged members of your family.

Lifestyle Spending Account: Receive company-funded support for eligible health and well-being expenses.

Commuter Benefits: Access support for your commute where available.

Volunteering Opportunities: Receive eight paid hours each year to give back to your community.

AI Tools and Training: Access enterprise AI tools and ongoing training that helps PMGers use AI effectively creatively and responsibly.

Our benefits and compensation programs may vary by location and eligibility and are subject to applicable plan terms. Well share full details during the hiring process.

What Sets Us Apart

Being part of PMG means joining a company culture thats unmatched in digital. Were dedicated to working hard to serve our employees and clients delivering value results and innovationwhich often requires true grit and agility. We believe in taking care of ourselves and each other to continuously improve in every way.

In alignment with our core values to be inclusive and always change for the better PMG is committed to creating a more diverse and inclusive culture and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that we only change for the better by bringing diverse perspectives to our company. PMG recruits employs trains compensates and promotes regardless of race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.


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