Job Description:
Change Catalyst Project Manager
Job description
As a Change Catalyst Project Manager, you are the delivery arm for the VP, Change Catalyst’s vision. Once solutions are defined and operationalized, you ensure the day-to-day execution against them runs seamlessly. Acting as the connective tissue across creative, media, and technology, you’ll translate strategies into action and keep projects on track. Success in this role requires hands-on experience managing integrated creative projects that connect with media — from broadcast to digital — with a strong understanding of the critical points where creative intersects with media and can be impacted by data and technology.
Key Responsibilities
• Solution Delivery: Ensure the VP’s solutions are executed effectively by managing timelines, scope, deliverables, and resourcing.
• Day-to-Day Orchestration: Coordinate across creative, media, and technology teams to ensure ongoing execution aligns with the intended solution.
• Intersection Oversight: Monitor and manage the points where creative intersects with media, ensuring data and technology integrations function as designed.
• Client Engagement: Act as a delivery partner to clients, ensuring confidence that the solution is running smoothly.
• Risk & KPI Management: Identify risks, blockers, or gaps in delivery, escalate as needed, and track progress against defined KPIs.
• Cross-Team Coordination: Drive collaboration across teams to ensure solutions are not just stood up but consistently executed.
Qualifications.
- 5–8 years of experience in project management, marketing operations, media, or creative services
- Proven experience running integrated creative + media projects across broadcast and digital.
- Strong understanding of creative production and media workflows, and how they are impacted by data and technology.
- Experience coordinating delivery across creative, media, and technology/ops teams.
- Required fluency in Workfront for orchestration and delivery management.
- Technical / engineering-oriented mindset (beyond traditional project management)
- Strong understanding of AI, generative tech, and agentic workflows
- Ability to operate at the intersection of innovation + execution (hybrid role)
- Understanding of MarTech ecosystem and digital/channel platforms (social, content, etc.)
- Ability to translate ideas, hypotheses, or models into structured frameworks/solutions
- Comfortable contributing to systems and solutions, not just coordinating
- Ability to manage and progress ambiguous, undefined, and evolving workstreams
Exceptional organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills. - Strong ability to lead cross-discipline initiatives that are somewhat unique both to where our program sits and how our industry works.
- Strong ability to drive momentum, accountability and clarity, with ability to influence.
Additional Information:
The annual salary range for this position is $59,000 – $96,025. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.
Benefits available with this position include:
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
• Life insurance,
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
• 401k,
• Flexible paid time off,
• At least 15 paid holidays per year,
• Paid sick and safe leave, and
• Paid parental leave.
Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.
To begin the application process, please click on the “Apply” button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps.
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Skills Required
- 5-8 years of experience in project management, marketing operations, media, or creative services.
- Proven experience running integrated creative + media projects across broadcast and digital.
- Strong understanding of creative production and media workflows, and how they are impacted by data and technology.
- Experience coordinating delivery across creative, media, and technology/ops teams.
- Required fluency in Workfront for orchestration and delivery management.
- Exceptional organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave at full pay and caregiver supports (including backup care) are emphasized as standout elements. Feedback suggests family-oriented benefits are a strong part of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or unlimited PTO, extensive paid holidays, and a year-end office closure are established components. Feedback suggests time-off policies are generous and add meaningful flexibility.
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Retirement Support — A large, established 401(k) plan with employer matching is clearly documented. Feedback suggests retirement benefits feel competitive and straightforward.
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