Senior Project Manager - Advertising Agency
16 days ago
Fort Lauderdale
Job Description ABOUT RYZE AGENCY Ryze Agency is a fast-growing boutique digital marketing agency managing a growing portfolio of health, wellness, and consumer brands. We're part of a two-city agency family alongside Jekyll + Hyde Labs — a Detroit-based, full-service CPG and direct response agency founded in 1996 that has helped 100+ brands generate billions in sales through TV, infomercials, and retail launches. Together we bring the firepower of a major agency network with the speed and focus of a boutique. We've built AI agents, automation systems, and operational infrastructure that most agencies our size don't have. Every project lives in Asana. Every team member knows what's next. We move fast, hold high standards, and we're building something worth being part of. Want to understand how we think before you apply? Check out our eCommerce Guide to the Galaxy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GS3P4S9K?binding=paperback&searchxofy=true&ref=dbssapsseriesrwttpbk&qid=1779315102&sr=8-1 THE ROLE This is the operational nerve center of Ryze Agency. As Senior Project Manager, you own how work flows across every brand, every team, and every deliverable. You're not here to take notes in meetings, you're here to build and run the system that makes sure nothing falls through the cracks, deadlines are hit, and the team always knows what's next. Asana is your primary instrument. You should play it fluently. This role reports directly to the Chief of Staff and operates across all active client brands and internal workstreams simultaneously. If you thrive where the work is complex, the pace is fast, and the standard is high, this is the role. WHAT YOU'LL OWN • Build, manage, and continuously optimize the full project management infrastructure in Asana across all client brands and internal teams, • Architect and maintain project templates, portfolio views, timelines, workload dashboards, and dependency maps, if it's happening at Ryze, it's tracked, • Own onboarding of new projects and clients: intake, scoping, task breakdown, team assignment, and timeline construction, • Run daily and weekly project status, proactively surfacing blockers, flagging overdue tasks, and keeping stakeholders informed without being asked, • Hold the team accountable to task completion, due dates, and update hygiene in Asana with professionalism and persistence, • Partner with the Chief of Staff to build workflows, SOPs, and operational frameworks that scale, • Coordinate cross-functional execution across paid media, social, content, email, design, and AI/automation workstreams, • Identify and eliminate process gaps, you're always asking "why is this still manual?", • Manage relationships with clients and internal stakeholders around timelines, deliverable status, and capacity ASANA EXPERTISE REQUIRED This role requires genuine, hands-on Asana mastery, not casual familiarity. You should be able to: • Build full project structures from scratch: sections, tasks, subtasks, dependencies, custom fields, and rules, • Set up and manage Portfolio and Goals views for executive-level oversight, • Create and use Workload and Timeline views to manage capacity across a multi-person team, • Automate routine task creation, status updates, and notifications using Asana Rules, • Build and maintain project templates deployable consistently across new client onboarding, • Use Asana reporting and dashboards to surface project health at a glance, • Integrate Asana with Slack, Google Drive, and email to keep communication and assets connected to work, • Asana Certified Associate or higher is a strong plus, if you have it tell us, if you don't you should be working toward it WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR • 4+ years of project management experience, with at least 2 years in an agency environment managing multiple simultaneous client accounts, • Expert-level Asana user, this is non-negotiable and will be assessed in the interview process, • Experience managing projects across diverse deliverable types: campaigns, content production, product launches, tech builds, • Proven ability to build PM systems from a messy state, you've inherited chaos before and turned it into structure, • Strong communicator who can hold people accountable without damaging relationships, • Genuinely curious about AI tools and already incorporating them into how you work, • Familiarity with digital marketing operations, campaigns, content calendars, creative production, paid media, is a significant advantage, • PMP, CAPM, or equivalent is a plus, but results matter more than credentials here YOU ARE • Obsessively organized, you can't function in ambiguity and you won't allow it around you, • Proactive, not reactive, you see the problem before it becomes one, • Direct and confident, you can push back on a deadline, hold someone accountable, or escalate a risk without hesitation, • A systems architect at heart, every process you touch gets cleaner, faster, and more repeatable, • Comfortable managing up, down, and across, leadership, creatives, and technical teams alike, • Someone who takes pride in the invisible work, the infrastructure that makes everyone else's job easier WHAT WE OFFER • Competitive salary commensurate with experience, • Real authority to build and own the operational backbone of a growing agency, • A leadership team that values structure, respects your expertise, and trusts you to run your domain, • Access to cutting-edge AI tooling and a team actively building the future of agency operations, • Clear growth path, we're building toward a full COO infrastructure and this role sits at the center of itCompany DescriptionRyze Agency is a fast-growing boutique digital marketing agency with a portfolio of health, wellness, and consumer brands — and a sister company, Jekyll & Hyde, in Detroit. We've built AI-powered infrastructure, automated campaign systems, and performance workflows that put execution on autopilot so our team can focus on what actually moves the needle. We're expanding, and we hire people who are genuinely excited to be at the front of that. We believe the future belongs to the curious—those agile enough to adapt, test, and evolve as the landscape changes. Curiosity is a competitive advantage, and at Ryze, it’s part of the job description. Are you curious?Ryze Agency is a fast-growing boutique digital marketing agency with a portfolio of health, wellness, and consumer brands — and a sister company, Jekyll & Hyde, in Detroit. We've built AI-powered infrastructure, automated campaign systems, and performance workflows that put execution on autopilot so our team can focus on what actually moves the needle. We're expanding, and we hire people who are genuinely excited to be at the front of that. \r\n\r\nWe believe the future belongs to the curious—those agile enough to adapt, test, and evolve as the landscape changes. Curiosity is a competitive advantage, and at Ryze, it’s part of the job description.\r\n \r\nAre you curious?