Project Director

We Are Social

Project Director overseeing teams and driving operational excellence at a creative agency. Engaging with high-priority accounts and mentoring project management staff while fostering innovative processes.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeLos Angeles • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as a hands-on, senior-level project manager for select, high-priority accounts, taking ownership and seeing projects through to successful completion
Oversee, mentor, and guide Project Managers and Senior Project Managers, fostering their growth and ensuring high standards of work
Partner closely with the Head of Department to forecast out project needs across the agency
Ensure that the agency is properly staffed and resourced from a project management perspective, balancing team capacity with incoming client needs
Create, install, and optimize best-in-class project management processes across all project management teams, driving consistency and efficiency
Champion the proper use of project management tools, ensuring uniform adoption and best practices across the department
Manage portfolio-level project profitability, tracking burn rates and budgets, and guiding your team to course-correct as needed
Proactively anticipate and identify agency-wide resourcing or project-related issues and propose solutions before they impact delivery schedules
Ensure all work is signed off at the right stages, by the right people (including internal and external partners)
Leverage AI features within Google Workspace and other AI tools to automate step-by-step process documentation and supercharge team productivity
Innovate with proactive solutions, using advanced tools (A.I. suite), for identified friction points within the organization.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in project management with a strong focus on agency operations, team management, resourcing, and process development
Proven track record of managing, mentoring, and developing junior project management staff (Project Managers, Senior Project Managers)
Deeply familiar with agency turn-around times, resourcing, and ways of working, with a strong understanding of the dynamics of agency processes
Demonstrated experience creating and rolling out new workflows, processes, and tool guidelines across teams
Highly proficient with Google Suite and Slack, and an expert in project management tools (Knowledge of Asana and/or Workbook is strongly preferred)
Strong understanding and experience in forecasting and managing complex project financials and portfolio budgets
Knowledgeable on social platforms formats and guidelines
Confident, collaborative and positive with a ‘can-do’ attitude
Proactive in providing solutions when challenges are identified
Detail-oriented and takes responsibility for fulfilling all components of team deliverables
Working knowledge of A.I. tools and functions and previously implemented AI into your daily work

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Act as a hands-on, senior-level project manager for select, high-priority accounts, taking ownership and seeing projects through to successful completion
Oversee, mentor, and guide Project Managers and Senior Project Managers, fostering their growth and ensuring high standards of work
Partner closely with the Head of Department to forecast out project needs across the agency
Ensure that the agency is properly staffed and resourced from a project management perspective, balancing team capacity with incoming client needs
Create, install, and optimize best-in-class project management processes across all project management teams, driving consistency and efficiency
Champion the proper use of project management tools, ensuring uniform adoption and best practices across the department
Manage portfolio-level project profitability, tracking burn rates and budgets, and guiding your team to course-correct as needed
Proactively anticipate and identify agency-wide resourcing or project-related issues and propose solutions before they impact delivery schedules
Ensure all work is signed off at the right stages, by the right people (including internal and external partners)
Leverage AI features within Google Workspace and other AI tools to automate step-by-step process documentation and supercharge team productivity
Innovate with proactive solutions, using advanced tools (A.I. suite), for identified friction points within the organization. 🎯 Requirements
5+ years of experience in project management with a strong focus on agency operations, team management, resourcing, and process development
Proven track record of managing, mentoring, and developing junior project management staff (Project Managers, Senior Project Managers)
Deeply familiar with agency turn-around times, resourcing, and ways of working, with a strong understanding of the dynamics of agency processes
Demonstrated experience creating and rolling out new workflows, processes, and tool guidelines across teams
Highly proficient with Google Suite and Slack, and an expert in project management tools (Knowledge of Asana and/or Workbook is strongly preferred)
Strong understanding and experience in forecasting and managing complex project financials and portfolio budgets
Knowledgeable on social platforms formats and guidelines
Confident, collaborative and positive with a ‘can-do’ attitude
Proactive in providing solutions when challenges are identified
Detail-oriented and takes responsibility for fulfilling all components of team deliverables
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Hard Skills & Tools

Project ManagementProcess DevelopmentBudget ManagementWorkflow CreationForecastingAgency OperationsResourcingMentoringFinancial ManagementDetail Orientation

Soft Skills

CollaborativeProactive Problem SolvingPositive AttitudeMentoringResponsibility