Freelance Project Manager

Company description

Within Publicis Groupe's Intelligent Creativity business, we specialize in bringing creative ideas to life, and to consumers.

By combining 100 years of craft excellence with 6,000 experts across 52 locations of the world's biggest studio network, we leverage the industry's richest data, through the power of agentic AI, to radically redefine content production with Intelligent Content. We intuitively deliver this through Marcel Make, the world's first Intelligent Content agent. The result? Predictively performing content that unlocks business growth in unprecedented ways.

No more guesswork. No more waste. Just content that works, working a lot harder.

Overview

Publicis Production is on the lookout for a print-focused Project Manager with catalog experience. This is a remote freelance role with an anticipated 2-3 month duration.

The Project Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of cross-discipline projects, ensuring deliverables are completed on-time, on-budget and at the highest quality standards. They maintain project setup, communication processes and timelines. They coordinate with their counterparts in production, creative, strategy, and support finance with POCs (percent of completion) and project closing. The Project Manager reports to a director- or senior-level project manager.

The Project Manager is the point of contact for all project tasks and seen as a source of truth. They have a clear understanding of their program's scope of work and should have some financial literacy to be able to estimate and manage small to mid-scale programs and budgets. The Project Manager must have a strong understanding of creative production, including social, digital, live action and post-production.

Responsibilities

• Develop project plans, including timelines, resources and estimates

• Reviews project intake and collaborate with disciplines to define project scope and deliverables

• Setup projects using department tools

• Leads project kick off and onboarding

• Own hot sheets and inform stakeholders with regular updates on project status

• Track project progress, manage risks and communicate escalations to discipline leads

• Takes meeting notes and tracks all feedback and review rounds

• Pulls burn reports from finance and communicates overages to leadership team

• Works with resourcing leads to make sure projects are staffed appropriately

• Evaluate project outcomes and conduct lessons learned sessions

• Archive all deliverables, proposals and documents

• Client facing, in tandem with client engagement lead

• Integrate AI-driven tools into creative and production processes to boost efficiency, elevate content quality, and stay ahead of emerging trends in technology and storytelling

Qualifications

• Experience as a project manager for an ad agency

• Experience managing high-volume print projects, such as catalogs, preferred

• Excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills

• Must be extremely organized, detail-oriented and capable of self-managing and multitasking in a fast-paced, demanding environment

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Able to apply critical and strategic thinking

• Stress-tolerant, quick-thinking and accurate

• Able to quickly understand new technology concepts

• Content production experience

• Client-facing experience

• Experience with various platforms including Microsoft365 Tools (Excel, Word, PPT, Teams, etc.), Smartsheet, Float

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected] .

Compensation Range: $45 - $55 per hour. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 2/16/2026.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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