project manager

LeadStack Inc. is an award-winning, one of the nation's fastest-growing, certified minority-owned (MBE) staffing services provider of contingent workforce. As a recognized industry leader in contingent workforce solutions and Certified as a Great Place to Work, we're proud to partner with some of the most admired Fortune 500 brands in the world.

Job title: Project Manager
Location: Remote (Open to remote, Seattle preferred)
Duration: 1 November 2026 – 8 February 2027
Pay rate: $73/hr on W2
Shift timings: 40hr/week, PST support
 
About the Role

• This project manager will provide hands-on project management leadership across complex, high-visibility creative projects and programs. This role partners closely with creative teams and cross-functional business partners to bring structure to ambiguous work, drive alignment, and move projects from brief through final delivery.
• The ideal candidate is a proactive, solutions-oriented project leader who can quickly integrate into an established team, independently manage multiple workstreams, and navigate evolving priorities and stakeholder needs.

Daily Responsibilities

• Lead complex creative projects from kickoff through development, review, approval, and final delivery.
• Develop and manage project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and approval pathways.
• Partner with creative leads and business partners to translate briefs and business objectives into clear plans and actionable next steps.
• Drive cross-functional alignment, keeping teams informed of priorities, decisions, risks, and deliverables.
• Proactively identify roadblocks, resource needs, and timeline impacts and bring forward solutions.
• Facilitate kickoffs, creative reviews, and stakeholder working sessions, ensuring clear decisions and follow-through.
• Manage changing priorities and scope while maintaining visibility into downstream impacts.
• Navigate complex stakeholder feedback and translate it into clear, actionable direction for creative teams.
• Work within established Studio processes and tools while identifying opportunities to improve project efficiency.

Candidate Requirements
Technology requirements:

• Microsoft Office Suite
• Smartsheets
• Figma (familiarity to be comfortable navigating)
• Workfront Adobe

Years experience:

• 5-7 years of project management experience

Required background / Skills:

• Full cycle project management
• Creative project management
• Cross functional experience
• Communication, written and verbal
• Resourceful
• Attention to detail, organization
• Possible presentation (coordinate creative reviews)
• Proactive
• Stakeholder engagement
• Manage feedback and approvals
• Ability to keep everyone informed of status

Nice-to-Haves:

• Experience in highly matrixed organization

Top Candidate Skills

• Complex creative project management – 5+ years
• Cross functional communication and stakeholder management – 5+ years
• Comfortable with Ambiguity – 5+ years

Notes:

• Disqualifiers:
  • Only general PM experience (missing creative, marketing knowledge)
  • Unable to work independently
  • Background is more managing admin tasks
  • Poor communication
  • Uncomfortable pushing for more information or following up on pending tasks
  • Posting the Starbucks name, group names, technologies, project code names, or program office information on public-facing sites is strictly prohibited.