Job Details

Present Studios is an award-winning boutique design firm with an emphasis in real estate, hospitality, private club and lifestyle branding. We are looking for a Project Manager who's highly motivated, obsessively organized, and detail-oriented to coordinate workflow, scheduling tasks, and helping to manage special projects in a deadline-driven work environment.

The Job:

The job of Present Studio's project manager is the liaison between clients and the design team, ensuring studio creative meets client expectations, represents the client's brand, while working towards deadlines and aiding in client management. The project manager will work directly with internal team members, consultants, vendors, and clients. This person will also manage occasional projects for special events and mailings from start to finish – including deadlines for creative, ordering resources, coordinating assembly and delivery to client. The job requires tenacity, attention to detail, good judgment, and most importantly, a positive mindset.

Long Term Responsibilities:

• Managing day-to-day project workflow
• Prioritizing project requests and works with creative team to gather and assign resources
• Reviewing and proofing client changes and coordinating communication
• Organizing, scheduling, and attending team and client meetings
• Project status reporting
• Managing project expenses and billing
• Special project coordination including ordering, scheduling, and assembling creative assets
• Managing email communications and updates
• Coordinating courier services and shipping, including international shipping / customs
• Office management / admin

Requirements:

• Understanding of creative/design process
• Able to manage multiple tasks, projects, and deadlines with confidence
• A positive, can-do mindset, and a passion for organization
• Good proofreading and copy-editing skills
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Self-driven work ethic
• Ability to work collaboratively with a team, as well as independently
• Proactive and able to take initiative

Additional Helpful Skills:

• Proficiency in MS Office
• Proficiency in Adobe Suite: Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator

Experience & Education:

• Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Advertising, Marketing, or related field
• 3+ years agency or design firm project management experience

What You Can Expect at Present Studios:

• An opportunity to work on a wide variety of digital and print projects, across multiple brands. Work includes identity development, event branding, invitations, calendars, menus, brochures, websites, email marketing, and more.
• A workflow process that evolves as we grow, with steady to fast-paced volume of work.
• We work from a focused, quiet studio space designed to nurture deep creative thinking.
• Collaborative team atmosphere.
• Skill development and growth are encouraged.
• This is a hybrid position: we work from our central Phoenix office 3 days per week (Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays) and from home 2 days per week (Tuesdays, Fridays).
• Central Phoenix office location with free parking, within walking distance of great lunch spots and coffee shops.
• Break room stocked with snacks and coffee.

Benefits:

• Paid vacation
• Health, dental, vision insurance
• 401K matching