Sr. Manager, Graphic Management

Our Opportunity GPJ is hiring a Sr. Manager, Graphics Management to join our growing team and support various clients. This role is onsite, requiring you to report on-site to one of the following office locations a minimum of 5 days/week: Austin, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York City, or San Francisco. Your Role As a Senior Manager, you will oversee the graphics process throughout the entire event life cycle, ensuring seamless execution from start to finish. You will collaborate with fabrication, creative, production artists, and pre-press teams to create and maintain comprehensive graphics checklists for multiple events simultaneously, ensuring consistency and high standards. The Sr. Manager provides guidance on graphics pricing throughout the planning cycle and works closely with other departments to maximize the budget while maintaining creative intent. I establish and enforce project deadlines based on graphic production timelines, ensuring timely delivery. Additionally, I manage third-party vendors, overseeing file sharing, budget management, and delivery to ensure alignment with project goals and standards. Your Skills Strong organizational and multitasking abilities. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines. Strong attention to detail and a keen eye for aesthetics. Experience with project management software (e.g., Asana, Trello) is a plus. Creative thinker with a passion for visual storytelling. Team player with a collaborative mindset. Self-motivated and proactive in identifying and solving problems. Your Competencies Urgency–Decisive, responsive, and fast acting you achieve goals quickly both when working on your own and in collaboration with others. You demonstrate adaptability and agility when making on-the-spot decisions never sacrificing quality or work interactions. Cool under pressure. For the sake of time, you are able to eliminate unnecessary steps and use network resources to aid in project completion. Foster Innovation - Drive, develop, or support new and improved methods, products, procedures or technologies. Devise new approaches to make improvements or solve problems. You constantly challenge yourself to come up with ideas that are on strategy, innovative, and transformative, and authentic to the client’s brand. Prioritization/Organization - Properly allocate time and resources so that jobs are completed within a defined timeframe; within budget and managing all resources (Full-time and freelance) as effectively as possible. Establishing a reasonable timeline for completion when no concrete date is given. Forward Thinking - Anticipate the implications and consequences of situations and take appropriate actions in order to prepare for possible contingencies. Your Experience Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Marketing or other relevant field. 5-8 years relevant work experience Experienced in GSuite, particularly Gmail, Sheets,Slides Advanced knowledge of the exhibit or sign making industry Exceptional organizational skills Your Impact In your role, you will have influence and responsibility over: Communicate and work effectively with other leads to establish & document best practices and processes. Organize, track, and document all necessary items to assure a job or task has been finished completely. Communicate and work effectively with other graphics production, Creative, and IP personnel to achieve common goals. Maintain Brand Standards as required by different clients. Salary Range: $70-95k Salary is dependent on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) experience, skills, and location. Who We Are GPJ is the world leader in experiential marketing. Our 29 global offices are filled with fearless people dreaming up ideas that are transforming industries and bringing the most respected brands to life in powerfully, exciting ways. We are a part of the Project Worldwide family. An independent, employee-owned global network of complementary, wholly owned agencies. You read that “employee-owned” part, right? You heard us correctly. You work hard, she works hard, we all work hard… we all succeed and reap the rewards. We have an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – providing our employees with an ownership interest. We thought you would want to know that. In fact, there is a lot more you would want to know about us, like our FTO policy (no more “accruing” time off), our employer matching 401(k) plan (no vesting period), and our low contribution healthcare option. But we are getting ahead of ourselves here, let’s talk about this exciting opportunity first and we can fill you in on our perks & benefits later. GPJ is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected class. In addition to federal law requirements, GPJ complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. GPJ expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on any protected class.