Primary Purpose
The Project Leader primary responsibility is to lead and manage integrated creative projects and experiences with a point of view. Serving as the connective tissue across subject matter experts on the project, the Project Leader both account manages, and project manages the project at-large to ensure ultimate success.
In conjunction with creative project management and other teams within Brand Apart, this person will help drive Brand Apart’s relationships with our clients. This account management includes design, video, strategy, and campaign work. Multiple layers of executive client contact are required. Within Brand Apart, he or she will interface representatives from Design Team, Video, Environmental, Event Logistics and Strategy.
Overview
The Project Leader role at Brand Apart is a hybrid position that blends creative project management with strategic account stewardship. Beyond managing day-to-day tasks, the Project Leader is expected to “connect the dots” across projects and broader strategic initiatives—especially for key clients like Chick-fil-A. This role requires applied creative thinking to interpret the needs behind the ask and deliver work that elevates client trust and partnership.
The Project Leader will take a central role in leading and supporting our upcoming partnership with Chick-fil-A to design and deliver a compelling Winning Hearts Every Day Immersion Experience for Operators and Team Leaders. In close collaboration with leaders across Brand Apart’s creative workstreams, the Project Leader will ensure connectivity, coordination, and clarity throughout the experience design and management process—offering a reliable point of alignment for both internal teams and our client counterparts.
This role will actively support the Immersion Experience through Spring and Summer 2025, culminating in a major event in October. Afterward, the Project Leader will transition to lead other integrated experience projects within the Chick-fil-A ecosystem, including initiatives such as Culture Cornerstones, NEXT, Founder’s Week, and others.
Essential Functions- Report to the Director of Project Leadership
- Be the internal champion for our client’s goals as well as the Brand Apart advocate representing our work to the client.
- Understand the full spectrum of services that Brand Apart offers and be able to grow client relationships in a thoughtful and consultative way.
- Win trust with clients through delivering exceptional creative and strategic work and proactive problem solving.
- Scope new projects appropriately including budgets, resourcing, and timelines in partnership with and design, strategy, or video team.
- Package, pitch, and present proposals to clients in an effective and persuasive manner.
- Maintain utilization of Monday.com for project management tasks and timetables. Hold all stakeholders accountable to milestones and timelines.
- Work closely with project teams to ensure all deliverables are in line with client goals & expectations.
- Meet regularly with Relationship Lead to provide feedback and strategic recommendations to clients.
- Drive daily logistical needs of clients and projects to ensure all deadlines are met or exceeded.
- Promote a unified and encouraging team environment among Brand Apart staff, contractors, creative partners, and vendors.
- Assist and manage other special projects as needed.
- Multi-disciplinary approach to solving client problems with proactive thinking, action, and creativity.
- Strong critical thinking, interpersonal skills, and verbal abilities.
- Ability to proactively present clients with ideas and accurately reflect projects to internal teams.
- Excellent professionalism, maturity and credibility with clients and team members at Brand Apart.
- Strong emotional intelligence with both clients and BA team at large.
- Great attention to detail.
- 5-7+ years of client relations and project management experience.
- Can confidently creative problem solve with the client without always needing input from teams.
- Ability to manage multiple projects at once with a strong sense of navigating timelines.
- Has a pulse on all opportunities within account with a savviness to generate new business.
- Insatiable desire for growth and learning.
- Constantly stays inspired on creative approaches, inspiring and challenging the team on how we can innovate and do better.
- Passionate care for the client and the work we do, no matter how big or small the task.
- Interpersonal skills and charisma for excellent client gravitas
- Curiosity. We are fascinated by people, culture, and ideas. We ask questions (a lot of them), look for connections, and we’re always learning.
- Drive. We get it done. We combine passion with determination, setting and surpassing goals every day.
- Brilliance. We use our talent to create work that brings more color to the world, turning initial sparks into remarkable ideas and experiences.
- Care. We demonstrate genuine care for one another. Putting others before yourself. We practice humility; we do great work and having a blast doing it.
Location & Work Environment
This role is based in Atlanta, GA, and follows a hybrid work model that combines in-office collaboration with remote flexibility. Candidates must be located in or willing to relocate to the Atlanta area and able to attend in-person workdays as required by our hybrid office policy.
About Brand Apart
Brand Apart is a creative studio dedicated to creating new, bold, and unconventional ways for people to love brands. We do the work it takes to know our clients and their customers, challenging and exploding assumptions that get in the way of new opportunities.
We are a team of designers, creators, and doers. We are passionate about telling brand stories that get noticed, create a connection, and inciting a response. In everything we do, we strive to exhibit our values of Curiosity, Drive, Brilliance and Care.
As a multi-disciplinary group, we love helping our clients deliver on customer and employee engagement through meaningful insights, strategic ideas, and seamless implementation. We are at an exciting time of growth as an agency, as we seek to expand our portfolio of clients and build upon prior project successes.
Clients include: Chick-fil-A, The Coca-Cola Company, Trilith Studios, 29029, Spanx, Evertrain Sports Nutrition, and Permanente Health.
We are based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Due to the nature of some of our event and experience work, candidates need to be available to travel 10% of the time.
Skills Required
- 5-7+ years of client relations and project management experience
- Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously and navigating timelines
- Ability to creatively problem-solve with clients independently
- Strong critical thinking, interpersonal, verbal, and communication skills
- Ability to present ideas to clients and accurately communicate projects internally
- Excellent professionalism, maturity, and credibility with clients and team members
- Strong emotional intelligence
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to scope projects, including budgets, resources, and timelines
- Ability to package, pitch, and present client proposals persuasively
- Ability to travel 10% of the time
- Located in or willing to relocate to Atlanta, Georgia, and able to work in a hybrid office environment
What We Do
Brand Apart is a marketing and brand studio wholly dedicated to creating new, bold, and unconventional ways for people to love brands. Big ideas aren't good enough. Truth be told, there are hundreds of agencies with big ideas. But it is a rare group of people who can translate big ideas into creative concepts that drive strategic growth through a deep understanding of what moves audiences to action. It’s even more rare for this group to bring perfect planning and seamless execution of customer engagements, down to the last detail.
