Marketing Project Manager (temporary)

Marketing Project Manager (Temporary)

New York, NY

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It's why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It's why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it's why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it's worth paying for.

The New York Times is one of the world's most influential news organizations with nearly 1,600 journalists, and subscribers in every country in the world. The Times is known for independence, accuracy, depth and authority, and produces award-winning journalism, breaking news coverage, opinion and commentary along with deep databases of content and rich multimedia presentations.

Marketing plays a key part in extending the journalistic legacy and mission of The Times into the future. Our job is to answer the question, "Why is quality journalism worth paying for?" We create award-winning marketing that demonstrates our mission, how we're leading the journalism industry and all the ways our readers can subscribe. Above all, we aim to be timely, straightforward and relevant in our marketing — to prove how much we value our readers and subscribers.

Earned Marketing is looking for an experienced project manager to join the team on a temporary contract. This project manager will focus on leading coordination of our earned marketing work and will report to the Director of Creative Strategy and Earned Production.

You will be a part of — and responsible for managing — a highly cross-functional and multidisciplinary group dedicated to building The Times's position as best in class across all products, especially The Athletic and Games. We aim to defy expectations and inspire a whole new generation of listeners and readers to subscribe and stay engaged with our products. As an essential member of the team, you'll manage breakthrough ideas from ideation through completion, ensuring deliverables are met within scope and budget, while upholding the highest standards of quality.

This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters. You can typically expect to come into the office 3 days per week. This is a 6 month temporary position with the opportunity to extend depending on performance and evolving business needs.

Responsibilities:

• Manage complex integrated projects from strategy/ideation through reporting/retrospectives, serving as the primary contact for internal teams and external agencies to ensure all deliverables and components are on track and within scope.
• Work closely with marketers and other cross-functional partners to define project scope, including objectives, timing, budget (where applicable) and required approvals.
• Develop and own project timelines.
• Partner with creative, marketing, media, newsroom and product teams plus external agency partners from the earliest concept stage forward to ensure that the most innovative and effective processes and production methods are employed.
• Monitor projects, evaluating and reporting progress and quality of work, proactively managing issue resolution, recognizing when things veer off course and escalating to senior management as necessary.
• Ensure clear and frequent communication throughout project life cycle through use of email/Slack status updates, document sharing, meeting recaps, etc.
• Facilitate, along with marketer and/or creative team, project kickoffs, creative reviews and work sessions.
• Lead — and determine the need/cadence of — stand-ups, status check-ins and any other essential project-related recurring meetings.
• Facilitate postcampaign retrospectives, along with marketer and/or program manager, to ensure continuous improvement for larger scale projects.
• Research, propose and run small-scale pilots for process improvements, new tools and approaches to project development.
• Help ensure brand consistency and messaging across projects.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of project management experience managing complex, multichannel marketing campaigns.
• Background in advertising and PR agencies
• Experience navigating the dynamics of cross-functional relationships and associated stakeholders both internally and with external partners.
• Understanding of the creative, production and media process.
• Understanding of the capabilities and production needs for print, digital, email, social media, video and experiential program components.
• Familiarity with project management software such as Monday.com

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Coda, JIRA, Fun Retro, Confluence and other PM tool sets.