📊 Project Manager


 

Casting Call

 

Project Manager with:

  • a love for planning everything and anything,
  • a knack for turning ambiguity into clarity,
  • and an instinct to orchestrate fast-moving pieces.

ScopeWhat this role entails.

Mission

Deliver exceptional client experiences through operational excellence, bringing clarity, structure, and accountability to every project while enabling teams to do their best work.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the successful delivery of projects by coordinating people, resources, timelines, budgets, and deliverables while maintaining visibility across all moving parts.
  • Develop a deep understanding of client goals, project requirements, and team dynamics to deliver exceptional outcomes.
  • Partner with Account Directors and Creative Leads to define project scope, priorities, resource requirements, timelines, and delivery plans.
  • Manage project schedules, workflows, budgets, forecasts, vendors, stakeholder expectations, and communications across multiple client engagements.
  • Monitor project financial health, including estimates, burn, scope changes, profitability, and forecasting, taking proactive action when projects drift from plan.
  • Serve as the primary operational point of contact, ensuring clear communication, alignment, and accountability throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Facilitate project kickoffs, status meetings, reviews, and retrospectives to keep teams aligned and projects moving forward.
  • Identify risks early, resolve issues proactively, and make informed decisions that protect project success.
  • Partner with Creative Operations and department leads to optimize resource utilization, balance workloads, and ensure the right people are assigned to the right work.
  • Support conferences, trade shows, executive events, and experiential activations by coordinating logistics, vendors, timelines, and on-site execution as required.
  • Maintain accurate project documentation, reporting, and operational processes to ensure visibility, consistency, and accountability.
  • Foster collaboration across cross-functional teams while continuously improving workflows, communication, and operational excellence.
  • Own your projects end-to-end, taking full accountability for successful delivery and exceptional client experiences.

Rewards

  • Full-time hybrid, minimum of three days a week in office (Toronto)
  • Starting salary range between $65-80K, depending on capability and competency
  • Support system for personal and professional development
  • Higher autonomy with greater role effectiveness.
  • Benefits package (family, health, wellness, dental, vision, prescription, etc.).
  • Paid time-off (holidays, vacation, sick and wellness days, etc.).
  • Warm office environment with designated desks and a fully stocked kitchen.
  • And more to support the whole you.

 


 

Casting Criteria

Culture AlignmentHow we expect everyone on our team to show up.

  • Team player in it for the long game.
  • Lifelong learner exemplifying a growth mindset.
  • Pursue personal and professional development while supporting others in theirs.
  • Exemplify the company’s core values: Health. Wisdom. Teamwork.
  • Aim for excellence and keep raising the bar.
  • Prefer open, direct, and frequent communication and feedback.
  • Embrace the messy reality of life and work with optimism and responsibility.
  • Embody a strong back, soft front, open mind, light heart, high EQ, and enduring grit.

Competency + ProficiencyWhat it takes to rock this role.

  • Strong project leadership skills with the ability to bring structure, clarity, and momentum to complex initiatives.
  • Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities without losing sight of quality, timelines, or client expectations.
  • Strong communication and relationship-building skills with clients, teammates, partners, and vendors.
  • Confidence navigating ambiguity, solving problems, and making sound decisions under pressure.
  • Demonstrated experience planning and delivering conferences, trade shows, executive events, experiential activations, or similar live experiences.
  • A collaborative, accountable, and proactive approach to work.

SuitabilityHow to qualify for this role.

Show us your capability and sensibility.

Must-haves

  • Minimum 3 years of project management experience within a creative, branding, marketing, advertising, or experiential agency. Agency experience is required.
  • Proven success managing client-facing projects from scope through delivery in a fast-paced agency environment.
  • Strong capability to plan, prioritize, schedule, and orchestrate multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.
  • Experience supporting or delivering conferences, trade shows, executive events, experiential activations, or similar live experiences.
  • Strong communication skills (written, verbal, and interpersonal).
  • Proficiency in modern project management tools (Asana or equivalent).
  • Proficiency with Google Workspace (Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc.).

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience in B2B enterprise marketing and communications.
  • Background in creative, marketing, business strategy, and/or B2B marketing.
  • Experience as a Scrum Master or working within Agile environments.

 


 

Company This is us.

 

Nimble. Unconventional. Dependable. Pixel Dreams is a creative agency with the inner fire to tackle the impossible. In the messy middle of building a centennial powerhouse for a vital purpose and notable clientele. Big logos, small egos. Warm hugs, hot debates. Thick skins, light hearts. Diverse by nature, not policy.

While we prefer not to kiss and tell, we recognize how important it can be for some candidates to see client logos before applying.

 
Some of the notable companies we work with.

 


 

This position is an unfilled vacancy.

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