Senior Manager, Marketing Project

Risepoint assists primarily regional universities in increasing their access and impact by making their academic programs available to students online. Founded in 2007, Risepoint's mission is to expand access to high-quality, affordable, and workforce-relevant education, especially for working and adult students. Risepoint brings single-minded dedication to student success, an integrated set of services, and data-driven performance to our collaboration with university partners.

Job Summary

The Senior Manager, Marketing Project is responsible for leading high-impact marketing and creative projects on behalf of our University Partners with a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration, strategic execution, and process improvement. This role requires advanced project management capabilities, stakeholder engagement, and the ability to optimize workflows in a fast-paced environment. The Senior Project Manager supports organizational priorities by managing complex initiatives across channels, leading process innovations and SOP development, and managing the performance and career development of junior team members.

The Marketing Project Management team drives operational excellence through rigorous project oversight, collaboration across teams, and optimization of marketing workflows. This team leads the execution of complex marketing campaigns that support our University Partner and company goals, brand integrity, and business performance.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Leads the planning, scoping, execution, and delivery of multiple large-sized projects simultaneously such as website builds, new partner and program launches, and CMS migrations, ensuring they are completed on time and within scope

• Leads group of project managers within the marketing department; Oversee group’s projects to ensure on-time, on-budget, and establish overall project status timeline

• Collaborates with Sr. Manager/Director/VP/ELT-level stakeholders across multiple business functions to align priorities and goals; identify dependencies; triage risks and issues; and facilitate expedient trade-off discussions

• Monitors and reports on resource capacity of marketing teams, and utilizes creative problem solving to unblock teams and optimize efficiency; flags project prioritization concerns to internal stakeholders as needed

• Leads project retrospectives and synthesizes key learnings for ongoing process improvement

• Develops project documentation including roadmaps, workflows, status reports, and dashboards

• Evolves project management systems to improve operations visibility, reporting, and capacity planning

• Creates onboarding plans and oversees the training and development of new project management hires; trains internal stakeholders on marketing project management processes and tools

• Leads organizational and departmental process optimization and documentation efforts; Evangelizes improvements through organization

• Leads team knowledge sharing and strategic planning; develops and maintains project management team SOPs

• Champions adoption and improvement of project management and other creative optimization tools

• Additional Position Responsibilities

  • Perform in accordance with Risepoint Policies

  • Perform other duties as assigned

Job Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business, Project Management, Communications, or related field Marketing, Business, Project Management, Communications, or related field

• Experience:

  • A minimum of 7+ years of advanced experience in project or programming management

  • Minimum of 3 years of experience managing a team of 2–5 individuals.

  • Minimum of 3+ years of significant experience managing website and digital marketing projects.

  • 5 years of experience or more working in Higher Education, Creative Agency, and/or Online Program Management (OPM) company is preferred.

• Licenses & Certifications: Project management certification (PMP, etc.) is preferred.

• Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:

  • Strong project management and organization skills

  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, Teams

  • Ability to effectively interact with a variety of teams (creative, UX, development, scrum masters, project managers, product marketers) at all levels of management within an organization (specialist, manager, director, VP, ELT)

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong task and time management abilities, as well as the interpersonal skills needed to build and maintain effective relationships.

  • Demonstrated experience in project performance measurement, KPI analysis, workflow optimization, and resource planning.

  • Strong track record in risk management, strategic problem-solving, and developing and optimizing processes to drive efficiency and mitigate issues.

  • Proficiency with sophisticated project management tools and with Adobe Workfront.

  • Mentorship and team career development

  • In-depth understanding of web project workflows, terminology, etc.

  • Proven ability to work independently in a global remote environment, with the capacity to multi-task and manage competing priorities effectively.

  • Strong understanding of integrated marketing strategies, including SEO, UX, digital, traditional, email, and social media

  • Quick learner, innovative, proactive, flexible, curious, and adaptable.

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