PMO Project Manager

Description:

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to join the Firmwide Marketing PMO to lead large-scale, highly visible programs and initiatives at the same level of ownership, complexity, and accountability as the VPled portfolio. This role is designed for a senior operator who can independently drive end to end programs that span content franchises, integrated campaigns, client experiences, digital platforms, governance, and cross business partnerships.

This is not a support role. The Senior Project Manager will own programs outright, act as a strategic partner to channel leads and senior stakeholders, and be responsible for planning, execution, risk management, governance, and delivery—from concept through post launch.

The role sits at the intersection of strategy, execution, and control, ensuring that programs move quickly without compromising quality, compliance, or consistency, in line with Firmwide Marketing and COO priorities.

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Key Responsibilities

Program & Initiative Leadership

• Own and lead complex, multi workstream programs comparable in scope to Blueprint, Exceptional Leaders, Hard Lessons, and other firmwide franchises—spanning video, audio, digital, events, paid/owned channels, and internal platforms.

• Translate strategic objectives into clear, executable program plans, including timelines, milestones, dependencies, and delivery models.

• Drive programs from early concept and stakeholder alignment through launch, amplification, and postlaunch measurement.

Strategic Partnership & Stakeholder Management

• Act as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders across FWM, Digital Strategy, Creative Services, Legal, Compliance, Research, IBD, GCM, and external agencies.

• Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and decision points, escalating clearly and early with recommendations—not just issues.

• Lead cross-functional forums, working sessions, and checkpoints to ensure alignment, accountability, and forward momentum.

Governance, Risk & Controls

• Ensure all programs meet firm governance, legal, and compliance requirements, working closely with Legal, Compliance, LCD, Research, and Control Group partners.

• Own and manage disclosure alignment, review workflows, and approvals, ensuring consistency across formats (video, audio, digital, paid, internal).

• Maintain audit ready documentation, trackers, and decision logs in line with PMO and COO expectations.

Execution Excellence & Speed to Market

• Build and manage detailed project plans, master timelines, asset trackers, and distribution plans that enable rapid execution without surprises.

• Drive efficient workflows across creative, production, distribution, and amplification—balancing speed, quality, and control.

• Continuously improve PMO processes, templates, and operating rhythms to scale best practices across programs.

Communication & PMO Leadership

• Produce clear, concise, executive ready updates (written and verbal) for senior leadership, mirroring the tone, clarity, and rigor used in PMO communications and emails.

• Serve as a model PMO leader, setting the standard for how programs are run, documented, and communicated.

• Mentor and collaborate with other PMO team members, raising the overall bar for program management excellence.

Qualifications & Experience

• 8–10+ years of experience in program or project management within marketing, media, content, digital, or complex matrixed organizations.

• Proven ability to lead large, ambiguous, high visibility initiatives with senior stakeholders.

• Deep experience working within regulated environments, including governance, legal review, compliance, and risk management.

• Strong command of project planning tools, trackers, timelines, and reporting, with an obsessive attention to detail.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills—able to cut through complexity and drive decisions.

• Comfortable operating at both strategic and executional levels, often simultaneously.

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What Success Looks Like

• Programs launch on time, with clarity, and without last minute fire drills.

• Stakeholders trust you to run the program as if it were your own.

• Risks are surfaced early, decisions are documented, and governance is airtight.

• The PMO is seen as an indispensable partner, not an administrative layer.

• You operate as a true peer to VP led initiatives—owning outcomes, not just tasks.