Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Salary: $105,000 - $134,000 annually, DOE

DNA&STONE is what happens when trust and disruption collide. Born in January 2025 from the merger of DNAan independent agency with 26 years of earned resultsand Little Hands of Stonean aggressively creative, founder-led micro-agencywe exist to break barriers, challenge conventions, and create work that makes the world jealous.

Our core strategic and creative approach is Radical Empathydeep emotional intelligence for the consumer, the client, and the business. Its about killing bias and allowing ourselves to feel what our audience feels. And taking on the pressure our clients feel as our own, then turning that into work that moves people and businesses.

A STARTUP CULTURE WITH A PROVEN FOUNDATION

As a newly merged agency, DNA&STONE carries the ambition and approach of a startup. This is a pivotal moment, and the right candidate will help shape the agencys next chapterbringing operational maturity to creative momentum. Every role is essential and capable of driving growth as we transform visibility into velocity.

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW

Project management is the backbone of the agency. We are the people who turn ambition into actiontranslating big creative thinking into clear plans, honest timelines, and accountable teams. We protect the work, the people making it, and the trust we've earned with our clients.

We partner across every functioncreative, strategy, production, media, and business leadershipintegrating people, process and resources to deliver exceptional results. We bring order without rigidity, structure without bureaucracy, and momentum without burnout. We don't believe in process for process's sake. We believe in the right process for the right moment, built with intention and adapted with discipline.

HOW YOULL MAKE AN IMPACT

A seasoned operator who knows how to lead complex, cross-functional work without losing the plot. You've run integrated advertising campaigns, managed teams under pressure, and built systems that actually hold up when the work gets hard. You are equal parts strategist, diplomat, and air traffic controller. The words STEADY, SHARP, and TRUSTED describe you.

Your primary job is to lead the day-to-day management of multiple accounts and projects, partnering closely with team leads across all departments. You'll set the pace, surface the risks, and make sure the work gets out the door at the level our clients expectand our craft demands. The role reports to the Director of Integrated Content.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own the project end-to-endplan development, scopes, schedules, estimates (informed by department leads), documentation, and on-time, on-budget, on-quality delivery.
• Set projects up to win by tailoring tools to each teams needs and keeping them organized, current, and useful.
• Facilitate the workrun kickoffs, status, reviews, and retros; clear blockers before they slow the team; foster cross-functional collaboration with leadership and emotional intelligence.
• Manage the moneyown burn reports, support invoicing and revenue projections, and hold financial accountability against business goals.
• Lead active risk and change management alongside Business Leadership. Surface issues early, decide quickly whether to avoid, mitigate, or accept, and keep the team moving.
• Feed the resourcing enginereport project status and resource needs into weekly and long-term resourcing workflows, and negotiate resource conflicts toward win-win outcomes.
• Maintain the documentation that mattersscope docs, schedules, status reports, change requests, and recaps, to name a few.
• Support agency operationsstakeholder comms, tool improvements, knowledge sharing, lessons learned, and overall operational tidiness.
• Mentor and manage PMs on your team, raising the bar for craft, accountability, and ways of working.
• Make order out of ambiguityyou can walk into a project with no playbook and leave with one, defining process where there is none without over-engineering it.

WHAT YOULL BRING

• 810+ years of project management experience, preferably at a creative agency, with a proven track record of integrated initiatives across multiple clientsincluding new business pitches.
• Working knowledge of project management principles, methods, and techniques, and the judgment to know when to apply which.
• Experience managing other project managers, with the leadership and emotional intelligence to make a team better.
• Comfortable with multiple workstreams and clients in motion at onceyou keep the plates spinning without dropping the standards.
• Fluent in PM tools such as Workamajig, Google Workspace, Slack, Smartsheet, and ability to tailor them to different project approaches.
• Strong financial instinctsbudgets, burn, scope changes, and revenue projections are second nature, not an afterthought.
• You are a natural problem-solver who gets excited not intimidated when things get complicated.
• You are highly organized and detail-oriented, and take pride in not letting things fall through the cracks.
• You build strong relationships quickly and know how to communicate with a wide range of people.
• You have a good sense of collaboration and will do what it takes to make great work.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• Annual base salary range: $105,000 - $134,000 (comp depends on experience, skill set, and market factors)
• Three health plan options (two 100% employer-paid)

• 100% employer-paid Life Insurance and Short + Long-Term Disability
• 401(k) plan
• Personalized PTO (our version of unlimited PTO)
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Monthly commuter stipend
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave (birth or adoption)

LOCATION

Seattle & Chicago Offices: DNA&STONE is working a hybrid schedule; required in-office days are Tuesday and Thursday of each week for employees who live in the Seattle and Chicago metro regions.

Currently, we are open to candidates within the west coast and central time zones.

OUR COMMITMENT

DNA&STONE is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and identities and are deeply committed to building a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.