Senior Content Project Manager

dotdotdash is hiring a Senior Content Project Manager to deliver high-volume content programs end to end across owned, paid, and earned channels. The role manages production planning, shoots and post-production, vendors, budgets, approvals, and delivery readiness while coordinating across internal teams and clients.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end delivery for content programs across owned, paid, and earned channels, keeping scope, schedule, budget, and quality aligned from brief through delivery
• Build and maintain the production plan, (shoot and post schedules, resourcing, dependencies, and risk tracking) across the full production lifecycle
• Partner with account, creative and strategy to translate briefs into deliverables matrices, asset specs, and versioning plans, so every asset is scoped, sized to its channel (website, paid media, paid social, organic social, or OOH), and ready for production
• Identify prospective vendors and facilitate a bidding process
• Coordinate shoots end to end, including crews, talent, locations, studio bookings, and call sheets, keeping production on schedule and true to the brief
• Manage post-production workflows, sequencing editorial, motion, sound, versioning, and quality control so assets move through review cleanly and defects are caught before delivery
• Run review and approval rounds with internal teams and clients, consolidating feedback and managing rounds against scope
• Coordinate production vendors, managing briefs, deliverables, and usage rights so external commitments
• Assist with legal sign off on finished deliverables with Business Affairs partners
• Track budget and burn against the plan, monitoring hours and out-of-pocket (OOP) costs and reconciling spend with Finance
• Surface scope changes early and prepare change orders with Accounts and Finance when requirements shift
• Represent program status, risks, and decisions needed to the client, aligning with account leads on messaging and escalation paths
• Coordinate vendor, and freelancer onboarding and procurement through Ariba, keeping external commitments aligned to timeline and budget
• Manage delivery readiness, including final specs, platform requirements, assist with trafficking to media partners and publishers, website handoff, and organic posting, so every asset ships in the right format, to the right place, on time
• Maintain project artifacts (production plan, content calendar, deliverables tracker, RAID log, and financial trackers) as the current source of truth
• Own asset organization, including naming, versioning, storage, and handoff, so the team can retrieve, reuse, and ship work with clear visibility into what is live
• Identify bottlenecks and risks early across the pipeline and drive mitigation plans before they affect schedule or quality
• Champion delivery best practices, ensuring our standardizing tooling and methodology across digital work is followed

Requirements:

• 5+ years of project-management or production experience delivering content, social, or video production programs across owned, paid, and earned channels
• Hands-on experience running production pipelines and studio or post-production workflows across concurrent deliverables
• A working understanding of production craft (shoot logistics, editorial, motion, and versioning), enough to translate between creative teams and non-production stakeholders
• Familiarity with the full content lifecycle (brief, production, editorial, approvals, and delivery) and the specs and asset formats for each channel, including website, paid media, paid social, organic social, and OOH
• Experience coordinating creative teams and production vendors, including usage rights and onboarding through Ariba or comparable systems
• Strong fundamentals in project planning, scoping, scheduling, risk and dependency management, with the judgment to adapt processes to a fast-moving, high-volume production environment
• Strong budget and burn management experience, including hours and out-of-pocket (OOP) cost tracking against plan
• Proficiency with project management and delivery tooling (Smartsheets, Productive, Workfront; Ariba for vendors and procurement; Microsoft D365 for finance)
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate across Accounts, Creative, Production, Strategy, and Finance
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for documenting and presenting program status to internal teams and clients
• Client-facing delivery experience, communicating status, plans, schedules, and risks directly with clients