Creative Project Manager - Contract

**Creative Project Manager (Contract)** TYPE: 1099 Contractor LOCATION: Remote, EST Time Zone Preferred SCHEDULE: Project\-based / hourly, based on client needs **Meet Team Thrive** We are a marketing agency making waves across education, entertainment, healthcare, social good, sports, and all the spaces where these industries intersect. Through strategic partnerships, data\-driven storytelling, innovative content design, and digital marketing expertise, we accelerate purpose\-driven campaigns. We operate in a high\-performing, fast\-paced environment with a focus on delivering impactful, culturally relevant work that drives results for our clients. **The Role** The Creative Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and driving the successful execution of creative projects across branding, website development, digital campaigns, and content production. This role serves as the operational hub between clients, strategists, designers, developers, copywriters, and internal leadership. They ensure projects stay on schedule, within scope, and meet We Thrive Media's quality standards while creating an exceptional client experience. This is a highly organized, proactive role requiring exceptional communication, problem solving, and project leadership. A successful candidate thrives in a dynamic, fast\-paced environment, implementing processes and raising the bar on creative deliverables. This role requires excellent project management skills, strategic and creative thinking, relationship building, problem solving, and strong communication skills with peers and leadership. **The Responsibilities** ***Project Planning, Scope \& Budget*** * Lead the end\-to\-end management of Creative projects during the creative development phase, from intake and prioritization through execution and delivery, ensuring objectives, timelines and quality standards are achieved. * **Timeline Ownership:** Build and maintain workback schedules, milestones, and kickoff documentation in ClickUp. * **Budget \& Scope Control:** Track project hours against estimates to protect profitability; identify scope creep, document change requests, and escalate out\-of\-scope work when necessary. * **Risk Management:** Proactively identify bottlenecks and schedule impacts before they become issues, offering solutions when timelines shift. ***Workflow \& Creative Team Management*** * **Resource Allocation:** Assign work, monitor capacity, remove blockers, and track deadlines for internal teams (designers, developers, copywriters, strategists) and external partners (freelancers, vendors). * **Full\-Lifecycle Management:** Oversee project phases from discovery and brand strategy through design, development, copywriting, QA, and launch. * **Cross\-Functional Alignment:** Partner with clients, strategists, designers, developers, copywriters, and internal leadership to ensure work aligns with client objectives. * **Proactively identify and mitigate project risks, bottl