Graphics Project Manager bei George P. Johnson Experience Marketing

Our Opportunity

GPJ is hiring a Graphics Project Manager to join our growing team.

This role is hybrid, requiring you to report on-site to one of the following office locations a minimum of 2 days/week: Austin, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York City, or San Francisco.

Your Role

As a Graphics Producer, you use your expertise in graphic production and agency operations to ensure smooth collaboration between clients, the creative studio, and the event production team. This dynamic role puts you in charge of the entire production process, from initial planning to on-site setup. It's a great fit for proactive, hands-on individuals with a background in Traditional Traffic Management or Graphics Project Management.

Your responsibilities include creating and maintaining detailed lists of graphic deliverables, managing budgets with graphic capture tools, and developing project timelines. You work closely with the creative team to execute concepts seamlessly and with the Account Management and Integrated Production teams to provide regular budget updates. A crucial part of your job is proactively communicating any concerns about production timing and collaborating with third-party vendors to manage costs and delivery. You also attend inter-departmental meetings to assess the production workload and quickly address potential issues, ensuring deadlines are met and keeping communication transparent for everyone involved.

Your Skills

• Experience in an advertising or marketing agency with a print production studio.
• Thorough understanding of print production processes.
• Experience working in a chaotic, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to prioritize, make sound decisions, and multitask.
• Experience balancing workloads among a creative group.
• Experience managing workflow and processes.
• Understanding of digital production processes is a plus.
• Experience in the event industry is a plus.

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.

Forward Thinking – Anticipate the implications and consequences of situations and take appropriate actions in order to prepare for possible contingencies.

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.

Your Experience

Experience & Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience, ideally with at least 3 years in the position of Traffic Manager or Graphics Project Manager.

Travel & Mobility

• Ability to travel 25%
• Ability to work irregular hours in addition to normal business hours, to include nights, weekends and holidays as needed

Your Impact

In your role, you will have influence and responsibility over:

Business Development

Project Launch & Resource Management

Strategy & Creative

Fabrication & Graphics

Estimating

Management, Delivery & Deployment

Change Order Management

Invoicing, Financial Reconciliation & Closing

Salary Range: $80k - $90k 

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), our “no employee 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.