Associate Project Manager – Marketing Art Operations

Experience

• 5–8 years of experience in Project Management, PMO or a similar role.
  
• Prior experience in a Game Studio, Creative Agency, Digital Marketing, Media Production, or Design Operations environment is preferred.
  

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning & Delivery

• Plan, track, and coordinate end-to-end execution of project deliverables
  
• Ensure timely delivery of projects in alignment with release schedules, business priorities, and stakeholder expectations.
  
• Monitor project progress, identify risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks, and proactively drive mitigation plans.
  
• Perform root cause analysis for schedule deviations and implement corrective and preventive actions.
  

Resource Planning & Operations

• Support capacity planning and resource allocation across multiple workstreams based on priority, workload, and skillset.
  
• Monitor team bandwidth and utilization to ensure effective delivery while maintaining operational efficiency.
  
• Coordinate onboarding, knowledge transfer, and transition activities for new resources and backfills.
  

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary coordination point between Product, Marketing, QA, Engineering, and other cross-functional teams.
  
• Ensure alignment on project scope, timelines, priorities, and approvals throughout the project lifecycle.
  
• Manage stakeholder communication and provide regular status updates, highlighting risks, dependencies, and delivery impacts.
  

Reporting & Governance

• Prepare project dashboards, status reports, KPIs, resource reports, and management summaries for leadership.
  
• Maintain project schedules, documentation, meeting minutes, action trackers, and project records using JIRA, Monday.com, and Microsoft Office.
  
• Ensure compliance with defined project governance, workflows, and approval processes.
  

Process Improvement

• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and improve delivery efficiency.
  
• Drive standardization of project management processes across Marketing Art workstreams.
  
• Recommend and implement best practices to improve turnaround time, quality, and stakeholder experience.
  

AI Adoption & Operational Excellence

• Drive adoption of AI-enabled solutions across project workflows, including reporting, quality checks, and process automation.
  
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort and improve turnaround time through AI tools and automation.
  
• Collaborate with Technology and Innovation teams to evaluate and implement scalable AI solutions.
  
• Promote continuous learning and adoption of AI capabilities across the team.
  

Communication & Collaboration

• Facilitate project meetings, planning sessions, sprint reviews, follow-ups, and action tracking.
  
• Foster strong collaboration across distributed teams and establish effective communication channels.
  
• Communicate project priorities, risks, timelines, and expectations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management, or a related discipline.
  
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, project lifecycle management, resource planning, and operational governance.
  
• Hands-on experience with JIRA, Monday.com, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and project reporting tools.
  
• Excellent planning, organizational, multitasking, and prioritization skills.
  
• Strong analytical mindset with experience in project metrics, dashboards, and data-driven decision-making.
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.
  
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
  
• Knowledge of AI-powered productivity and automation tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, AI creative tools, workflow automation platforms) is desirable.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), or equivalent Project Management certification.
  
• Experience in Game Development, iGaming, Digital Marketing, Creative Studios, or Media Production.
  
• Experience driving process automation, operational excellence
  
• Exposure to resource planning, capacity management, and stakeholder management across global teams.