[Hiring] Marketing Traffic Manager @Marketing Direction

Role Description

Own project coordination and traffic management for an established B2B marketing agency serving professional services firms. This is a coordination and verification role -- you keep the work moving.

This is a primarily remote contractor role with variable hours based on workload. Tampa Bay area candidates preferred; open to qualified candidates in other US locations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in agency operations, project management, or traffic coordination
• Demonstrated multi-project coordination at scale (10+ concurrent projects)
• PM tool proficiency (Monday.com, Asana, or comparable) with the ability to learn new systems quickly
• Experience configuring PM tools beyond basic use -- automations, alerts, dashboards, integrations
• Budget tracking experience -- monitoring hours against approved estimates and flagging variances before they become problems
• QC/verification capability -- reviewing deliverables against requirements for completeness and accuracy
• Experience coordinating across creative, marketing, or professional services teams
• Comfortable working within a contractor team model (not just full-time employee teams)
• Proactive communication -- you surface issues early, not after deadlines pass
• Currently using AI tools (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, or equivalent) in your workflow

Requirements

• Project Setup (before kickoff)
• Create project boards in Monday.com under the correct program category
• Create Dropbox folders with standard sub-folder structure
• Gather reference materials (brand docs, prior deliverables, relevant data) and organize in project folder
• Verify team assignments, scope definition, and estimate approvals are complete before kickoff
• Consolidate individual team member estimates into a single document for project owner review
• During Execution
• Route project assignments to the right specialist based on skillset and capacity
• Manage timelines, dependencies, and deliverable tracking for concurrent client projects
• Conduct first-pass QC on deliverables before they advance to project owner review
• Route deliverables through the approval chain
• Monitor hours against approved estimates; enforce budget check-in requirements
• Flag out-of-scope work for independent estimation and approval before additional work continues
• Escalate when a team member's deliverable is past deadline
• Monitor cross-account capacity and flag resource constraints
• Resolve operational bottlenecks proactively before escalation
• Verify deliverables in production after deployment
• Communication and Reporting
• Provide weekly account reports to each account manager
• Send human-context communications for approvals and status
• Consolidate multiple review items into a single prioritized message
• Status updates answer four questions: what's done, what's in progress, what's blocked, what needs attention
• Project Closeout
• Verify final deliverables against original scope
• Confirm all files organized in correct folders with proper naming
• Reconcile hours against approved estimate
• Capture lessons learned

Benefits

• Fully remote work
• Established agency since 2009
• Defined operating model with documented playbook
• Collaborative team of 10-15 specialists
• Meaningful coordination work with multiple concurrent clients
• AI-forward environment using various AI tools
• No micromanagement; clear expectations

Company Description

Marketing Direction is a strategic B2B marketing agency established in 2009, specializing in comprehensive marketing solutions for professional services firms.

• Known for our trademarked Marketing Direction Strategic Blueprint® methodology
• Provides clients with clear, transparent roadmaps from strategy through execution