Marketing Project Manager

Job Description

We believe small businesses are at the heart of our communities, and championing them is worth fighting for. We empower small business owners to manage their finances fearlessly, by offering the simplest, all-in-one financial management solution they can't live without. Role Summary: The Marketing Project Manager oversees the marketing project experience and leads initiatives from the initial brainstorming and research phase, straight through implementation production, and on to debriefing and reporting. This role will take ownership of the processes and documentation to ensure efficient and effective project execution.

Here’s How You Make an Impact:

• Providing seamless project management for all marketing-related projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, in scope and in budget
• Leading team alignment including kick-off calls, follow-ups, creative brief reviews, campaign execution reviews, and status’
• Ensuring trackers and tools are updated with the correct status, deadlines and next steps (Confluence, Jira Work Management, Slack, Google Drive).
• Keeping the stakeholders informed through timely and effective communications.
• Managing the flow and progress of planned and ad hoc marketing requests.
• Obtaining scope and prioritization change approvals, flag risks or delays.
• Proactively reaching out to stakeholders to ensure projects are progressing.
• Aligning teams to processes and help onboard new employees to ensure they are familiar with our tools and processes, ultimately setting them up for success
• Supporting the Marketing planning process.
• Developing new and improving existing processes to support marketing project delivery

You'll Thrive Here By Possessing the Following:

• 5+ years of similar experience in a marketing or agency environment.
• Understand project management principles, are masters of time management, strong communicators, and problem solvers.
• Demonstrates strong initiative, and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated working experience with Jira, Asana, Trello or other Kanban-based project management software is required.
• Documentation experience using tools like Confluence or Notion is a must.
• Able to collaborate effectively and build strong working relationships with cross-functional marketing teams and key stakeholders.
• Able to manage and resolve conflicts and challenges through feed-forward, kind conversation and problem-solving—escalating to the right manager when necessary.
• Can manage multiple projects and competing priorities.
• Solid understanding of the creative process.
• Able to work independently with limited supervision.
• A critical thinker who can present solutions, not problems.
• Have a growth mindset.
• Are a strong verbal and written communicator and are comfortable leading meetings.
• Project Management certification like CAPM or PMP would be a bonus!

At Wave, you’re treated like the incredible human being you are. Work From Where You Work Best: We will always have a welcoming, energizing, and world-class office (in Toronto) with a space for you. Or, if you’re more comfortable working from home, the choice is yours . We Care About Future You: You will stretch yourself and you will grow at Wave. You will also be supported on this journey with diverse learning experiences, educational allowances, mentorship, and so much more. We Support the Full You: We make a serious investment in your health & wellness. When we think about benefits we think about body, mind, & soul and we take this stuff very seriously. We Take Care of the Fundamentals: Fair compensation, all the office perks you’d want, and the various goodies you’d expect from a growing tech company. This is the obvious stuff, but we don’t want you to think we forgot! We believe that a diverse and inclusive culture creates the best workplace. We embrace our differences, value individuality, and the broad spectrum of every Waver's skills and abilities. We challenge each other from a place of respect and pursuit of continuous growth. We trust each other and encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work, everyday. As Wavers, our voices matter, our opinions are met with an open mind. The best ideas win, no matter whose they are. Contributing to an inclusive culture is a part of all of our job descriptions. We’ve been continuously recognized as one of Canada's Top Ten Most Admired Corporate Cultures and one of Canada’s Great Places to Work in categories including Technology, Millennials, Mental Health, Inclusion and Women. Are you ready to be a Waver? Join us! Apply for this job