Director, Project Management - Temporary Worker

Job Description:

Dentsu Creative US is comprised of audacious thinkers and award-winning collaborators across the United States who blend local knowledge with global expertise. 
 
Choosing substance over stunts, our Modern Creative mandate is about unlocking sustained growth and holistic impact for brands in ways that Create Culture, Change Society and Invent the Future. We do it daily for notable brands .

Our borderless approach allows us to assemble the best talent around each brief, tapping into the expertise of the 9,000+ people in dentsu international’s global creative network. This integrated model also allows our talent to learn about and explore the breadth of career possibilities within Dentsu Creative.

As a senior leader within Project Management, the Director, Project Management leads the design and implementation of integrated project management and marketing technology workflows across the client, agency, and broader company. With Adobe Workfront serving as the core work-management platform, the role translates business and creative needs into scalable processes, platform configurations, governance, and integrations across the Adobe technology stack. The Director combines strong leadership presence with accountability for complex client delivery, aligning agency and company ways of working while ensuring quality, financial discipline, adoption, and continuous improvement.

- Temporary position for 6 months
- W2 only. Candidates must be authorized to work and reside in the United States.

Key Accountabilities

- Leadership & Stakeholder Management: Provide visible, credible leadership across client, agency, technology, implementation-partner, and company teams. Facilitate decisions, align priorities and dependencies, manage escalation, and maintain accountability across complex cross-functional work.

- Integrated Delivery: Lead complex client engagements and the end-to-end Workfront implementation roadmap from discovery and requirements through planning, launch, adoption, and optimization, with accountability for milestones, dependencies, resources, budgets, scope, risks, and delivery quality.

- Workflow Design & Process Improvement: Lead process discovery and translate current-state pain points and business requirements into scalable future-state workflows spanning intake, briefing, planning, resourcing, creative development, production, review and approval, asset management, publishing, and delivery.

- Agency + Company Integration: Connect client and agency workflows with company operating models, controls, data, and reporting requirements. Clarify roles, ownership, and handoffs while simplifying process and reducing duplication or manual workarounds.

- Workfront Design & Governance: Define and govern Workfront project templates, task structures, roles, approval gates, service-level expectations, permissions, reporting, dashboards, resource visibility, and change requests to create consistent ways of working.

- Adobe Ecosystem & Systems Integration: Coordinate requirements and integration points across Workfront, AEM Assets/DAM, Adobe Express, Adobe Fusion, Frame.io, SharePoint, and relevant content, activation, and business systems to enable connected workflows, reliable handoffs, and appropriate automation.

- Change, Testing & Launch: Own implementation planning, RAID management, user acceptance testing, issue resolution, launch readiness, training, onboarding, communications, and transition into day-to-day operations to drive confident adoption across client and agency teams.

- Optimization, Automation & AI: Monitor adoption and workflow effectiveness after launch, maintain a prioritized optimization roadmap, and identify opportunities for automation and AI-enabled workflows across the content supply chain.

- People, Financial & Discipline Leadership: Manage and develop project management talent; maintain financial and resource discipline across the portfolio; reinforce PM and operational best practices; and represent the discipline in senior leadership and new business discussions.

Person Specification

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.

- 8–10 years of project management, delivery, or operational transformation experience, including 1–3 years in a leadership role within an integrated agency, marketing, professional services, or similarly fast-paced environment.

- Proven experience leading complex integrated engagements and technology or business-change implementations from discovery and requirements through launch, adoption, and optimization.

- Demonstrated leadership presence and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence senior and C-level stakeholders, lead through ambiguity, and drive decisions across client, agency, technology, and implementation teams.

- Advanced experience leading process discovery, gathering business requirements, and translating them into future-state workflows, platform requirements, governance, roles, and measurable solutions.

- Mandatory hands-on proficiency with Adobe Workfront, including project and template design, task structures, schedules, dependencies, proofing and approvals, permissions, reporting, dashboards, resource visibility, and workflow governance.

- Mandatory working knowledge of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets/DAM and Adobe Express; working knowledge of Adobe Fusion and Frame.io is strongly preferred.

- Experience defining integration requirements across workflow, asset management, collaboration, content, activation, and other enterprise business systems, including SharePoint where applicable.

- Experience leading RAID management, testing/UAT, launch readiness, change management, training, onboarding, and adoption measurement.

- Strong financial, organizational, communication, facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills, with a collaborative, proactive, solutions-focused leadership style and commitment to quality and continuous improvement.

At dentsu, we believe great work happens when we’re connected. Our hybrid way of working combines remote flexibility with regular in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Many of our employees who live within commuting distance (90 minutes) from one of our Headquarter or Hub Offices (New York, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles) are required to work in the office 2-3 days per week including one Team Day. The minimum number of days may vary by office and role. Dentsu may designate other HQ or Hub offices at any time. Those who do not live near an office may be designated as a remote employee, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect you to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients, which may include attendance in an office from time to time.

The hourly pay range for this position is $105.00 - $110.00. The hourly pay rate for the successful candidate is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.  Temporary employees are eligible for paid holidays in accordance with dentsu policy, as well as safe and sick time. This position is not eligible for any other benefits or other compensation.

To begin the application process, please click on the “Apply” button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps.

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Location:
New York

Brand:
Dentsu Creative

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Temporary

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