At PitchBook, we are always looking forward. We continue to innovate, evolve, and invest in ourselves to bring out the best in everyone. We’re deeply collaborative and thrive on the excitement, energy, and fun that reverberates throughout the company.
Our extensive learning programs and mentorship opportunities help us create a culture of curiosity that pushes us to always find new solutions and better ways of doing things. The combination of a rapidly evolving industry and our high ambitions means there’s going to be some ambiguity along the way, but we excel when we challenge ourselves. We’re willing to take risks, fail fast, and do it all over again in the pursuit of excellence.
If you have a good attitude and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done, PitchBook is the place for you.
About the Role:
Helping people win drives PitchBook’s Marketing team to be a world class B2B engine, delivering exceptional results. They are critical to fueling the company’s growth by utilizing a variety of Brand, Creative, Content, Go-To-Market, Channel, and Operations strategies at every stage of the customer lifecycle and act and work with authenticity always. They are a high performing, data-driven team, that uses rigor and rationale to produce quality marketing with an agile approach, meeting business needs and market dynamics.
The Senior Project Manager at PitchBook is responsible for overseeing the planning, execution, and delivery of complex, multidisciplinary projects and initiatives primarily for the Brand and Creative team, but with impact to motions and mechanisms across the Marketing team. Both teams are made up of cross-functional disciplines and channel/practitioner experts with unique needs. Collectively, the teams harness their talents to drive forward the brand mission, increase awareness, perception and preference, generate action, and deliver exceptional results at every stage of our prospect and customers' lifecycle.
The Brand and Creative team is made up of strategists, designers, writers, editors, multimedia producers, and project managers. Our team sits across three offices: Seattle, New York, and London with additional freelancer and agency partners located around the globe. Working closely with all members of the team, as well as the Sr. Marketing Business Operations Manager and Marketing Program Manager (who report to the CMO), this role will ensure projects, GTM motions, team mechanisms, budgets, resourcing, and reporting is delivered and shared to the highest standards of quality.
A successful person in this role will have a positive, can-do attitude. They will effectively balance communication, organization, advocacy, problem-solving, risk-management, and collaboration skills. Finally, they will seek to represent the creative and Marketing teams’ project management talents across the broader community at PitchBook.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute comprehensive project plans for large, multidisciplinary GTM efforts, including timelines, milestones, deliverables, clear roles, and responsibilities
- Collaborate with channel leads to evaluate, develop, rollout, and track/gather metrics for projects
- Work closely with Brand and Creative team strategists, designers, writers, editors, multimedia producers, and project managers to facilitate effective and efficient project lead time estimates, communications, and project workflows
- Identify potential project and team risks. Proactively address challenges, develop mitigation strategies, and make informed decisions to keep projects on track
- Collaborate to develop and conduct post-project reviews; collect learnings in all areas, document, and distribute to teammates for future application
- Provide leadership and mentorship to a team of mid-level project managers, fostering an entrepreneurial and collaborative work environment to produce best-in-class output
- Co-lead bi-weekly Creative team Sprint planning and resourcing meetings
- Establish a regular cadence of individual and team check-ins for the PM and Brand and Creative team to keep a pulse on needs, workloads, and sentiment
- Effectively evaluate project briefs and help resource teams based on skills, interest, and bandwidth
- Provide workload and capacity reporting to inform resourcing, project load, and mitigate burnout
- Help foster a collaborative and positive team environment
- Lead and motivate project teams to achieve project goals and deliver outstanding creative work
- Serve as a primary point of contact for our internal stakeholders, for owned teams, GTM motions, and projects. Provide regular updates on project status and manage expectations
- Closely collaborate with internal stakeholders to document project scopes, deliverables, goals, risks, schedules, success measures, core stakeholders outside of Marketing, and needed resources
- Define, document, regularly audit, and consistently seek to improve existing processes within the Brand and Creative team and in collaboration with cross-functional teams across Marketing
- Implement, utilize, and stay up to date on project management tool product releases to increase efficiency and improve capacity planning, task management, resourcing, and asset delivery
- Co-own processes for tracking creative capacity, workload, prioritization, and project sizing
- Help identify, evaluate, and select vendors and creative contractors based on project requirements and creative team needs
- Support onboarding vendors with legal and finance and maintain strong relationships with preferred vendors
- Oversee contractor communications to effectively utilize contracted hours, and review invoices to ensure alignment with the requested work
- Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors
- Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested
Skills and Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in project management as part of a cross-functional team
- 2+ years working on or with a creative marketing team
- Project management experience across a range of marketing disciplines; particularly events, digital, paid media, and GTM campaigns
- Proven record of successfully managing complex efforts from start to finish
- Desire to collaborate with and mentor project managers; leadership and mentorship experience preferred
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
- Exceptional attention to detail and a focus on process improvement
- Ability to seek clarity in ambiguous situations, stay adaptable with changing priorities, smartly defend the creative process, and embrace and drive change within and across teams
- Expertise in project management software, particularly Asana
- Familiarity with B2B industry best practices, concepts, and procedure
Benefits + Compensation at PitchBook:
Physical Health
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Additional medical wellness incentives
- STD, LTD, AD&D, and life insurance
Emotional Health
- Paid sabbatical program after four years
- Paid family and paternity leave
- Annual educational stipend
- Ability to apply for tuition reimbursement
- CFA exam stipend
- Robust training programs on industry and soft skills
- Employee assistance program
- Generous allotment of vacation days, sick days, and volunteer days
Social Health
- Matching gifts program
- Employee resource groups
- Subsidized emergency childcare
- Dependent Care FSA
- Company-wide events
- Employee referral bonus program
- Quarterly team building events
Financial Health
- 401k match
- Shared ownership employee stock program
- Monthly transportation stipend
- Please be aware the above PitchBook benefit and perk offerings are subject to corresponding plan and policy documents and may change during the course of your employment.
Compensation
- Annual base salary: $86,000-$105,000
- Target annual bonus percentage: 10%
- Starting pay will be based on several factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. We also have a location-based compensation structure; there may be different ranges for candidates by location.
Working Conditions:
We believe our business and our culture are strongest when we work together in person. We also know that it’s helpful to have some flexibility to work remotely. Most roles work in the office 3+ days/week, and some are expected to work in the office 4-5 days/week. The current expectation for this role is that you are working in the office 3+ days/week and that you are in the office full-time during the training period, for which the length varies by role. During an initial phone screen, the team will discuss expectations for this specific position.
The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.
Life At PB:
We are consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work and our culture is at the heart of our success. It’s our fundamental belief that people do and create great things and that people are the cornerstone of prosperity. We believe that proactively seeking out different points of view, listening to others, learning, and reflecting on what we’ve heard creates a sense of belonging within PitchBook and strengthens the PitchBook community.
We are excited to get to know you and your background. Concerned that you might not meet every requirement? We encourage you to still apply as you might be the right candidate for the role or other roles at PitchBook.
