Project Manager

New York, Lincolnshire
twentysix
ABOUT VAYNERX

VaynerX () is the most contemporary family of companies, working together to build and grow brands. Subsidiaries include VaynerMedia, Eva Nosidam Productions, The Sasha Group, Gallery Media Group, Tingley Lane Trading, VaynerSpeakers, and VaynerCommerce.

ABOUT VAYNERMEDIA

VaynerMedia is a global integrated creative and media agency. Founded in 2009 by Gary Vaynerchuk, the independently owned agency operates in 15 offices worldwide, including Amsterdam, Bangkok, Chicago, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Tokyo, Toronto, Singapore, and Sydney. It is part of the VaynerX family of companies.

The PITCH

We’re lucky that everyone within our walls thinks creatively, shares a passion for building communities, and understands the world of both big campaigns and social micro-content. Our Project Managers enjoy working in a fast paced environment and love the challenge of discovering what drives and moves consumers.

Here’s where you come in.

An Australia office is hunting for a passionate and driven Project Manager that will lead a global brand account, continually review and optimize the work team produces, and collaborate with the project management team to establish effective ways to lead teams and processes. This is a full-time contract role based in Australia reporting to the Country Manager.

• Write and execute statements of work, scope, tasks, timeline, budget, and development based on project requirements and plans.
• Show a level of understanding of how one piece of the puzzle can effect the big picture across the business, display and practice business acumen.
• Make magic happen at all internal cross functional teams during the project lifecycle for all Brand projects that include creative, social & digital content, builds, and events.
• Contribute to the VM processes and align with finance, client service, operations, and legal on project and client requirements.
• Own the final project assets: folders on the server, shared documents in the drive, and contracts in the box.
• Obsessed with meetings such as kick offs, brainstorms, and deliverable reviews just to get things done.
• Live and breathe the agency processes, including creative production, paid media, and digital builds while optimizing those processes.
• Give the big picture to the inter departmental teams such as milestones, deliverables, and completion.
• Sharp in tracking scopes when change occurs-you know exactly what to do.
• Collaborate with creative team leads to manage team tasks, next steps, manage bandwidth, and needed resources.

Your Experience

• 3+ years of experience managing projects, coordinating teams, and other planning related duties, preferably in the digital ad or media space.
• Time management is your cup of tea.
• Experience in budget development and contract (SOW) writing.
• Thrives in a fast paced, high pressure environment.
• Out of the box lead and practical hands on experience in project management.
• You make and lead stuff to happen.
• Hungry for great work (and good food).
• Must have a life outside work.
• And did we mention project scoping?

What you should know about VaynerMedia

Think “lab” and not “agency.” We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun! Our environment and pace feels much more like a start up than most agencies you might be used to.