Project Manager

Title: Project Manager

Location: Atlanta or New York

Department: Project Management

Reports to: Senior Project Manager

Purpose

We’re looking for a dynamic and detail-oriented integrated Project Manager to join our team and help lead the charge on a few of our clients including IHG, Clarios and other amazing clients. This is a critical role for an organized, proactive leader who loves the "how" of making great work happen. We are looking for someone who’s comfortable working across multiple workstreams, tight timelines, and can raise flags and hold people accountable.

This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives and enjoys a keeping a high-volume of projects and deliverables organized and who’s comfortable working across multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the lifecycle of integrated campaigns, ensuring seamless execution across broadcast/video, social, digital, OOH, and retail/in-store touchpoints.
• Partner with the Operations to help implement and optimize our new PM/RM tool, ensuring all workstreams are accurately tracked, resourced, and reported on.
• Balance several "always-on" workstreams alongside major brand pulses, maintaining clear timelines, dependencies, and delivery windows.
• Proactively manage creative and production bandwidth within the new RM tool, flagging potential bottlenecks and helping to solve staffing puzzles before they impact delivery.
• Serve as the central hub between Account, Strategy, Creative, and Production. You are responsible for ensuring everyone has what they need to succeed and that "brief-to-ship" is a smooth process.
• Maintain real-time project health data. Provide visibility into project status, budget burn, and team utilization.
• Own the schedule for internal stand-ups, creative reviews, and stakeholder check-ins. Ensure all meetings have clear agendas and actionable recaps.
• Identifying and mitigating project risks, keeping teams aligned, and proactively communicating updates and blockers.
• Helping improve how we work by streamlining processes and finding efficiencies in how we deliver.

Competencies

• Exceptional client-facing and internal communication skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A "solutions-oriented" mindset. You can navigate the tension between creative ambition and operational reality with diplomacy and grit.
• A team player with a strong will to foster a positive work environment.
• You're not just any Project Manager – you're a Project Manager who thrives in a fast-paced, ever-changing landscape. You get excited about big, innovative ideas, and love nothing more than turning them into reality.

Professional Skills & Knowledge

• Knowledge of various advertising channels such as social, digital, web, POS, print, motion, TV, DOOH, OOH
• Strong working knowledge of project management tools, principles, and methodologies.
• Exceptional organizational skills, including attention to detail and multitasking skills.

Experience

• 3–5 years of project management experience in a creative agency setting.

About Iris

Participate or perish. It’s not just our rallying cry – it’s a creative imperative. Iris is the global creative micro-network built for brands that refuse to blend in. With 650 people across 11 offices, we help clients like Samsung, Bentley, Wellstar, Beiersdorf, Samsonite, and Barclays show up in culture with work that stands apart. Powered by Participation, and brought to life across paid, earned and owned media, our agency model is big enough to be dangerous, small enough to stay agile. Founded outside the ad establishment in 1999, Iris has always been defined by its outsider mindset – one that still drives our mission today.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and recruit on talent alone, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, education, class, sexual orientation or disability. We champion diversity and believe it not only benefits, but enhances our creativity, our company and the wider society at large.

Salary Range

Our estimated range for this role is $70,000-$80,000