Creative Project Manager at Shaker… · Oak Park

At Shaker, we believe people can do impactful things. Especially our people. In this role, you’ll help us transform companies by connecting them to the right solutions for their most complex talent needs. Focused on helping organizations enhance their recruitment and retention results, you’ll collaborate with co-workers, partners, and clients to make it happen. Within our tight-knit community, you’ll see the future you create and enjoy the team support to learn, grow, and thrive. What could be more powerful than that? Connect to the Power of People, with Shaker.

Shaker Recruitment Marketing’s Project Management team provides leadership and organization for all creative projects – from logo design to global websites. They kick them off. They put them to bed. They are the center of all creative activity. Project Management is a discipline as skilled and unique as creative and branding. They ensure exceptional creative is completed on time and on budget.

Each role on the project management team is critical to the team and agency’s success.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage a scale of creative projects from intake to completions, such as single digital and print collateral pieces, high-volume digital asset production, large-scale employer brand and career websites projects, and more
• Liaise with the resource coordinator, creative and account teams to deliver projects according to deadlines
• Serve as client contact for creative projects in close collaboration with the client service and website vendor partner teams
• Manage the day-to-day deliverables for assigned projects
• Remain flexible and adjust project plans for a variety of project scopes and processes to meet the needs, goals, and deadlines of assigned projects
• Work effectively and efficiently in a fast-paced, high productivity environment, with a sense of urgency
• Manage creative team workload and project resource needs in project management system
• Flag immediately and appropriately when project needs or openings arise
• Perform other duties as may be assigned

• Experience managing multiple high volume, as well as large-scale projects from inception to completion with excellence is a requirement
• Bachelor’s degree
• 3-6 years of work-related experience
• 3+ years of experience using project management software, ideally Asana, but not required
• Exceptional detail orientation and follow-through
• Strong problem-solving skills with ability to productively and professionally adapt to change
• Comfortable in client-facing settings, with the ability to engage effectively with client stakeholders.
• Strong track record of leading by example to other team members
• Demonstrates a strong work ethic with a consistent focus on achieving team success

What Does Your Day Look Like?

• Partner with creative colleagues, clients, website vendor partners, and client services teams on creative projects
• Review the project scope, creative brief, and map out project timelines with appropriate tasks ensuring the creator team is clear on project deliverables, goals and expectations
• Continually upkeep project activities and status within project management system, keeping assigned work and timing up to date
• Kick off creative projects, leading the presentation of timelines, as well as reviewing project scope and deliverables with clients

Rewards and Career Advantages 

Within a culture defined by energy, fun, and talent, our team enjoys competitive pay, health and financial benefits, and the opportunity to work among innovative, friendly colleagues.  

About Us

Shaker Recruitment Marketing is the leading full-service talent marketing agency redefining how organizations attract, hire, and retain talent. With 75 years of expertise in branding, talent attraction, media, MarTech, and analytics, Shaker delivers strategies that lead with insight, fueled by creativity, and grounded in a legacy of trust and innovation.