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Project Manager

Client-Facing | Hybrid (Albany, NY)

As part of a growing, collaborative team of creative and marketing professionals, the Project Manager is a crucial steward of client success and a key driver of long-term agency partnerships.

This role focuses on managing execution, communication, and coordination across internal teams and clients – allowing strategic leaders to focus on higher-level planning and direction. The Project Manager is responsible for translating strategy into clear plans, maintaining momentum across projects, and ensuring work is delivered with quality, clarity, and accountability.

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responsibilities
  • Serve as the primary day-to-day point of contact for assigned clients, ensuring clear, professional, and responsive communication.
  • Manage the execution of marketing projects across multiple channels, ensuring timelines, scopes, and deliverables are met.
  • Collaborate closely with internal strategic leaders, account leads, creative, digital, media, and production teams to translate strategy into actionable project plans.
  • Support client onboarding from an execution standpoint, ensuring processes, timelines, and expectations are clearly defined.
  • Develop and maintain detailed project plans, briefs, schedules, and workflows for ongoing and campaign-based work.
  • Lead client status meetings and internal check-ins, providing clear updates, action items, and next steps.
  • Track project scopes, timelines, and budgets in collaboration with account and production teams.
  • Identify risks, bottlenecks, scope changes, and resourcing challenges early – escalating issues and proposing solutions before they impact delivery.
  • Review work in progress to ensure deliverables align with briefs, objectives, and client expectations prior to client delivery.
  • Translate client feedback into clear, actionable direction for internal teams, ensuring alignment and minimizing rework.
  • Ensure all work adheres to Overit’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and quality standards.
  • Maintain accurate project documentation, timelines, and reporting across all assigned work.
  • Advocate for client needs internally while balancing scope, timelines, and team capacity.
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Ways of Working & General Responsibilities
  • Comfortable learning and working in project management software, with the ability to quickly adapt to new tools and workflows.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while maintaining organization, clarity, and attention to detail.
  • Strong prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and stakeholders simultaneously.
  • Maintain consistent visibility into project status, progress, and next steps for both internal teams and clients.
  • Demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous or fast-moving situations while maintaining accountability and follow-through.
  • Promote collaboration and accountability across internal teams.
  • Contribute ideas that improve efficiency, communication, and delivery.
  • Represent Overit professionally in all client interactions and communications.
  • Support a positive, respectful, and high-performing remote work environment.
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Requirements
  • 2–5 years of project coordination or project management experience in an advertising, marketing, or creative agency environment.
  • Experience supporting client-facing projects and participating in client meetings.
  • Foundational understanding of creative, digital, media, and production workflows within a marketing agency.
  • Experience tracking project timelines, scopes, and basic budgets.
  • Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Project Management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
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We’re Looking for Someone Who Is:
  • Confident and accountable: Takes ownership of their work, communicates clearly, and follows through without needing excessive oversight.
  • Curious and adaptable: Eager to learn, ask thoughtful questions, and adjust quickly as priorities, tools, and client needs evolve.
  • Collaborative by default: Thrives in a team environment, partners effectively across disciplines, and contributes to shared success.
  • Organized and detail-oriented: Manages multiple priorities with structure and care, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and consistency.
  • Professional and respectful: Values teammates, clients, and partners, and shows up with integrity in all interactions.
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Schedule
  • Monday–Friday, with a minimum of three days in-office at Overit and two days remote (WFH). This role supports standard business hours, with flexibility as needed to meet project deadlines and client needs.
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perks

You'll get:

  • 401(k) matching
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Professional development assistance
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culture

We believe in:

Overit is the full-service marketing agency known for businesses that feel recognizable and household names feel modern. We’re a team of 40+ highly-skilled creative- and data-focused marketers committed to new ideas, new technology, and connecting audiences to the things they love. We’ve been called a Best Place to Work, Best Place In Show, and the agency to call when you’re ready to kick things up a notch.

To apply, email your cover letter, resume, and salary requirements to [email protected]