Project Manager - Studio A

Project Manager, Studio A  

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: 

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing and managing your team’s projects from brief to completion and supporting the Sr. Project Manager on large campaigns, while also maintaining relationships with stakeholders. Your primary focus will be partnering with a creative team to deliver projects on time, within budget, and in alignment with stakeholder provided brief specifications. You are a go-getter, relationship builder, incredibly organized, and love working in a fast-paced environment. 

Key Responsibilities:   

• Be the main point of contact and a strategic partner for your team’s projects, working closely with a Sr. Project Manager, stakeholders, the Studio A creative team, and producers.  

• Plan creative and external resources against the needs of every project and work closely with the Portfolio Director and Sr. Project Manager on overarching project schedules. 

• Set, organize and facilitate team meeting agendas, notes, materials and follow ups. 

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, to drive consistency and quality of project deliverables. 

• Be the ultimate point of accountability for quality of work delivered; provide feedback and direction before presenting to clients, raise awareness of all project issues/risks and proactively find solutions. 

• Use project management software/tools (Workfront) to track tasks, timelines, resources and approve team timesheets.  

• Manage post-production of photo or video deliverables as directed. 

• Develop status reports and collaborate with creative leads to optimize resource allocation.  

• Proactively identify, analyze, prioritize, and communicate potential project risks. 

• Ensure resources are assigned and driving the most critical digital priorities.  

• As conflicts arise within projects, identify solutions and contribute to their resolution in a timely and appropriate manner, escalating to Sr. Project Manager and Portfolio Director if necessary. 

• Point of escalation for creative resourcing concerns to wider team, and Portfolio Director. 

Key Relationships: 

• Portfolio Director (Department Lead) 

• Sr. Project Manager (Direct Manager) 

• Creative Team, Producers (Partners) 

• Stakeholders and project briefers (Digital Content, Retail Marketing, Membership, Planning)  

• External agencies and vendors  

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:  

• Comfortable working in Microsoft Office Suite, Figma, and other tools 

• In-depth knowledge of modern project-management software, especially Workfront 

• Experience managing risks and stakeholders  

• Experience collaborating across teams to define and implement new processes  

• Willingness to give and receive honest, direct and thoughtful feedback  

• Excellent communication, time management, and organizational skills   

• Ability to learn quickly and produce high quality work in a fast-paced environment  

• Experience directing a small team of creatives  

• Solutions-oriented approach 

• Experience in resource management and project monitoring/trafficking 

• Fluent in English, both verbally and written 

• SEO experience a plus 

Soft Skills: 

• Ability to quickly adapt to changing business processes and partners. 

• Strong communications and negotiating skills, comfortable presenting complex topics to stakeholders at various levels in person and/or remotely. 

• Good people skills, comfortable collaborating with Project Managers, art directors, designers and copywriters with a wide variety of personality types. 

Requisite Education and Experience:   

• College degree, or equivalent industry experience. 

• 3+ years of relevant project management experience. 

• Project Management certification preferred. 

• Digital campaign activation experience preferred. 

About Studio A 

Studio A PDX launched in October 2021, and resides within the adidas America Portland HQ. We're an internal digital creative studio. We make (or adapt) just about every campaign you see on adidas.com, the app, the blog, and much of the email across North America. We’re busy! 

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at adidas means championing individual uniqueness and cultivating a culture of belonging in which everyone can create at their best.  We embrace diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives and seek to create a workforce that reflects our consumers and communities.
• adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, adoption, with surrogate and fertility support, short and long-term disability, and basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage. Employees are able to enroll in adidas’ 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match. Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance and generous Leave policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance. Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service,   eleven paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.
• We officially returned to office in a hybrid work environment, working 3 days in office and 2 days remote.  The working location of this position is Portland, OR.
• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.