Rosewood Creative is an independent creative agency based in Los Angeles, known for its impactful storytelling and innovative campaigns. They are seeking a Freelance Project Manager to oversee social-first creative projects, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with client expectations while managing multiple workstreams.
Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end management of social-first projects, including scopes of work, timelines, budgets, and delivery
- Build and maintain accurate project plans, ensuring alignment with client expectations and internal resourcing
- Lead internal project communication, keeping teams informed in real time as priorities shift, timelines evolve, and deliverables progress
- Manage multiple concurrent workstreams, prioritizing tasks and balancing workloads to support overall team health
- Partner closely with Brand Leads, acting as a true collaborator to guide projects forward and manage expectations across both internal and client stakeholders
- Proactively identify risks, anticipate scope changes or overages, and recommend solutions to keep projects on track
- Monitor budgets through regular burn reporting, partnering with leadership to make real-time adjustments as needed
- Collaborate with Operations to forecast staffing needs, flag freelance support, and gather key details for bookings
- Work closely with Production, ensuring they are looped in at the right moments and set up for success across all relevant projects
- Maintain and organize project documentation, trackers, and reporting tools with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Ensure all projects adhere to agency processes and delivery standards
- Prepare and share regular status updates, ensuring transparency around progress, risks, and next steps
Requirements:
- 5+ years of project management experience, preferably within a creative agency environment
- Experience leading projects across a social AOR or brand social account
- Proven ability to manage project scopes, budgets, timelines, and resourcing from inception through delivery
- Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously with minimal oversight
- Detail-oriented and highly organized, with the ability to track milestones, manage deliverables, and maintain accurate project documentation
- Clear and effective communicator, both written and verbal, with the confidence to lead conversations and align cross-functional teams
- Strong relationship-builder, able to establish trust and collaborate effectively with internal teams and external partners
- Proactive and solutions-oriented, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, identify risks, and problem-solve in real time
- Flexible and adaptable, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment
- Familiarity with project management and collaboration tools (e.g., Trello, Slack, Google Drive)