Senior Project Manager

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Role Summary

The Senior Project Manager leads complex high-visibility and cross-functional projects from planning through delivery. This role operates between the day-to-day project ownership of the Project Manager and the team process and capacity leadership of the PM Lead.

The Senior Project Manager is accountable for project health quality of delivery risk management and cross-functional alignment across assigned workstreams. The role provides senior-level guidance to Project Managers and project teams escalates issues appropriately and helps apply and improve PM processes within the automotive client team environments.

Core Responsibilities

Lead Complex and Cross-Functional Projects

Manage multiple workstreams or high-complexity projects from intake through final delivery.

Own project timelines milestones dependencies deliverables and handoffs.

Coordinate projects involving multiple departments agency partners markets or stakeholder groups.

Establish project structure governance meeting cadence communication plans and escalation paths.

Ensure project requirements scope deliverables and approvals are clearly documented.

Maintain visibility into project health and communicate status risks and decisions to appropriate stakeholders.

Serve as a senior project-based point of contact for the LA-based team and broader project stakeholders.

Own Project Planning and Workflow

Build and maintain detailed Smartsheet schedules project plans and milestone trackers.

Create and maintain Asset Trackers Proplan tracking producer assignments and estimate-related documentation.

Create monitor and refine JIRA task assignments and project workflows.

Ensure project information is accurate current and accessible in the required systems.

Identify opportunities to improve project workflows without independently changing department-wide standards.

Support consistent use of server JIRA SmartSheets WorkFront Vantage and related tools.

Manage Scope Budget and Resource Risks

Manage pre-set budgets and monitor project financial health in partnership with producers account teams and finance.

Identify scope changes resource constraints timeline impacts and budget risks early.

Support estimates project planning resource assignments and production forecasting.

Partner with the PM Lead on capacity or allocation concerns that affect multiple projects or teams.

Recommend trade-offs and solutions when project scope timing budget or resourcing are at risk.

Escalate material risks and decisions to the PM Lead or appropriate leadership.

Manage Risks Issues and Dependencies

Maintain project risk issue action and decision tracking.

Anticipate delivery challenges and develop mitigation plans.

Resolve project-level blockers independently when possible.

Coordinate resolution of cross-functional dependencies and competing priorities.

Escalate issues that require changes to process staffing capacity budget or leadership direction.

Monitor cumulative risks across related projects and communicate trends to the PM Lead.

Lead Status Communication and Escalation

Facilitate project status meetings working sessions kickoffs and milestone reviews.

Prepare clear status updates action items decision logs and risk summaries.

Maintain follow-up across project communications contact reports emails and team commitments.

Ensure team members understand their responsibilities deadlines dependencies and next actions.

Report cross-project and team blockers to the PM Lead with recommended solutions.

Translate complex project information into concise updates for leadership and stakeholders.

Drive accountability while maintaining effective cross-department communication.

Reporting Structure

Reports to the PM Lead

Partners closely with the PM Lead producers account leadership creative strategy technology finance and other cross-functional stakeholders

May provide day-to-day guidance and mentoring to Project Managers but does not own formal people management or performance reviews unless specifically assigned

Skill Focus

Asset Production

Understand fundamentals of CG asset creation data prep and CAD based asset production

Knowledge of AI production workflow navigating in-process technology discovery during live production

Experience with asset management and organization around traditional retouching and practical photography

Knowledge of scaled regional specific localization and translations processes

Experience with complex large-scale asset management organizing tracking and archiving preferred

Project Ownership & Leadership

Complex project and workstream management

End-to-end delivery ownership

Cross-functional coordination

Dependency and milestone management

Risk issue and escalation management

Planning and Project Management Tools

Microsoft suite specifically Excel experience required

Atlassian JIRA and Confluence

SmartSheets for schedule and timeline creation and management needed

Adobe WorkFront knowledge for task and resource allocation management

Creative Cloud proficiency; Figma PhotoShop InDesign Adobe Acrobat

Asset technical proficiency with file formats resolution specs aspect ratios variation localization and regionalization

Communication and Stakeholder Management

Executive-ready status reporting

Cross-department communication

Meeting facilitation and decision management

Stakeholder alignment and expectation management

Conflict resolution at the project level

Clear written follow-up and accountability

Success Measures

Success in this role is demonstrated by:

Complex projects delivered on time and with clear stakeholder alignment.

Accurate schedules trackers assignments status reporting and project documentation.

Risks issues and dependencies identified and addressed early.

Effective management of scope budget and delivery expectations.

Fewer unresolved cross-functional blockers and escalations.

Consistent use of team processes and project management tools.

$85000 - $90000

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