Project Manager, Digital - BMF

Who we are

BMF is a global integrated creative marketing agency known for humanizing brands in unexpected, inspiring, and impactful ways. Now celebrating 20 years in business, the award-winning boutique agency is helmed by partners Brian Feit, Bruce Starr, and Ed Starr, and is supported by an experienced global team of both long-standing BMFers, and recent executive-level hires. 

BMF’s international network of cross-disciplinary creative marketers build extraordinary brand experiences around the world, and across channels. The agile team provides a fully integrated service offering, from strategy and creative to experiential, digital, talent, and public relations. Elevating brands who seek a relevant role in cultural conversations important to their audiences, BMF has a global client roster that includes Marriott, Visa, Disney, Estée Lauder, Crystal, Lamborghini, Gucci, Lilly Pulitzer, and Japan Airlines.

BMF has been recognized for its legacy of boundary-pushing work, and as an innovative marketing industry force. Among its many accolades, BMF was most recently honored by Ad Age as a 2023 Small Agency Award winner in the “Campaign Of The Year” category for its work with CBS.  

BMF is an LGBT-owned business certified by the NGLCC (nglcc.org) with diversity and inclusion as part of the agency’s core DNA. 

Our growing and dynamic agency is now looking for a Project Manager to join our Digital team, where they will develop and implement operations strategies for BMF’s digital project and retainer accounts. They will ensure the smooth and efficient execution of digital creative, strategy and influencer projects from start to finish.

Does this sound like you? 

As a Project Manager, Digital at We Are BMF, you will oversee and manage the full lifecycle of digital projects, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, and on budget. You will support our four teams within the digital department (Accounts, Creative, Strategy & Analytics, and Influencer & Creator Marketing), helping us build our operations from the ground up. This role is crucial in managing resources, schedules, budgets, and communication between BMF Digital and external clients.

Headquartered in Miami, New York, or Los Angeles, you will support bicoastal teams on both retained and project work. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of creative processes, a passion for problem-solving, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with all four Digital departments to ensure all project and retainer objectives are met according to scopes of work, all the while fostering an empathetic and collaborative environment
• Develop an approach to project planning, including timelines, scope, budgets, and resource allocation, for both retained and project clients to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery 
• Partner with the Digital Accounts lead to develop a per-project and -retainer approach to resource management that is scalable and ensures that on-staff and freelance resources are neither over or under resourced
• Partner with the Creative Director, Digital, to implement file organization and asset delivery strategies, ensuring assets, strategic documents and other deliverables are provided to clients intuitively and in line with BMF’s quality standards
• Partner with Digital Accounts team to apply standard operations strategy to all client accounts 
• Facilitate conversations among project teams, particularly creatives and strategists, to ensure client needs are communicated, easily understood and met
• Partner with Digital Accounts to provide status reports and updates to clients and BMF leadership, communicating wins, progress, risks and opportunities
• Continually refine and update workflows to better meet internal and client needs

The salary range for this role is $90,000-$120,000  and is based on experience, responsibilities of the position, subject matter expertise and is location specific.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of proven experience as a Project Manager, or tested experience that is applicable to the job requirements
• Proficiency in project management tools such as Asana, Trello, Monday.com, or similar platforms
• Strong understanding of digital marketing processes, including design, branding, copywriting, strategy development, paid media and digital production
• Familiarity with budgeting and financial forecasting
• A proven problem-solving aptitude to assist with day-to-day client services needs 
• Superior organizational and time management skills, and ability to meet deadlines
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong PC and Mac computer literacy – including expertise in Keynote, Excel and Outlook, Google Docs
• Calm, polite, and professional attitude

Benefits

What we bring to the table:

We want you to be part of a dynamic and creative team. We are vanguards in creative strategy and experts in leveraging emerging trends in popular culture, the arts, fashion and technology. We connect brands with media, influencers, artists and consumers to create today's leading experiential activations in the market. And we’ve got the cred too: we were featured in Event Marketer's IT List of Top 100 Event Agencies for the past four years. 

We offer:

• A fast-paced, creative and collaborative environment with supportive leadership.
• A culture that values ideas and innovation from everyone at every level.
• Ongoing professional development and training; we will empower you to take charge of your career path.
• Strong benefits including health and dental and unlimited time off.