[Hiring] Project Manager @Go Fish Digital

Role Description

Go Fish Digital is where digital marketing meets clarity, creativity, and scale. As our agency grows and our client engagements become increasingly complex and cross-functional, strong project management is essential to ensuring great strategy turns into great execution.

The Project Manager serves as the operational backbone of assigned client work. This person creates the structure that allows Client Strategy and delivery teams to execute effectively, turning priorities and decisions into clear tasks, realistic timelines, coordinated resources, and measurable progress.

You will work across teams to keep complex client work moving, identify risks before they become problems, and create the visibility teams need to deliver on time and profitably.

What You'll Do

• Own the execution system for a portfolio of complex client accounts and projects.
• Partner closely with Client Strategy and delivery teams to translate approved strategy into actionable work.
• Coordinate timelines and dependencies, maintain clear project plans, and ensure teams have the information and capacity needed to deliver.
• Create operational discipline around client relationship and service strategy.
• Engage in internal planning and execution based on account complexity.

Key Functions

• Project Planning and Execution:
  • Translate approved strategy and project decisions into clear work plans, tasks, milestones, dependencies, owners, and timelines.
  • Build and maintain realistic project schedules that reflect scope, priorities, team capacity, and delivery dependencies.
  • Monitor execution, adjust plans as conditions change, and ensure decisions consistently move into action.
  • Maintain strong project structure in ClickUp.
  • Ensure assigned work meets Go Fish standards for task clarity, ownership, dates, estimates, prioritization, and actionable context.
• Cross-Functional Coordination:
  • Coordinate work across Client Strategy, delivery teams, and other contributors.
  • Translate internal decisions into clear next steps.
  • Identify handoff gaps, conflicting priorities, and unclear ownership.
  • Maintain continuity as work moves across teams.
• Timeline, Capacity, and Risk Management:
  • Maintain current, realistic project timelines and proactively identify work at risk of delay.
  • Monitor team capacity and workload constraints.
  • Surface operational risks related to scope, timelines, dependencies, staffing, or workflow.
  • Regularly review assigned projects to identify overdue work and adjust dependencies.
• Margin and Financial Discipline:
  • Help protect project and account margin through strong planning and accurate time estimates.
  • Monitor time tracking and hours against project expectations.
  • Support deferred revenue forecasting and revenue-recognition schedules.
  • Ensure project-management practices support high-quality delivery and profitable execution.
• Client Lifecycle and Project Setup:
  • Support onboarding and kickoff for assigned accounts.
  • Develop the execution schedule for project-based engagements.
  • Maintain project documentation and structure throughout the engagement.
  • Support smooth transitions when timelines, priorities, services, or team members change.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects, preferably in a marketing agency or professional-services firm.
• Strong ability to translate strategy into clear, actionable project plans.
• Experience coordinating work across multiple teams and disciplines.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects while maintaining visibility into priorities, risks, and deadlines.
• Strong follow-through and a willingness to remain engaged until work is complete.

Requirements

• Strong ability to build realistic timelines and manage dependencies.
• Sound judgment when priorities compete or information is incomplete.
• Ability to distinguish between an urgent request and a true project priority.
• Confidence challenging unrealistic timelines and unclear ownership.
• Ability to escalate risks at the right time and level.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Flexible work environment.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Company-paid life and disability insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• A collaborative culture with autonomy and ownership.
• Employee wellness programs and additional perks.