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Project Manager

Damage: The Esports Agency is a full-service gaming & esports marketing & creative agency that assists brands with navigating our space. Based in Los Angeles, we are a group of gamers and agency leaders that are redefining brand marketing in gaming and esports. Companies hire us to help them build their brand within the ever-growing community of gamers and esports enthusiasts.

We are seeking a dedicated Project Manager to join our growing team in Los Angeles to work with an existing relationship with one of our top-tier clients. If you’re a meticulous task manager, a natural-born leader, obsessive about creating incredible work, and adept at forming and strengthening bonds with personalities of all stripes and sorts, we want to hear from you.

• Work in a collaborative manner with all Damage account teams to ensure seamless project delivery against the client’s objectives and agreed upon budget and timeline
• Responsible for ensuring that projects are correctly scoped and meet expected financial targets
• Provide leadership and guidance on deliverables to ensure best practices with project management
• Develop full knowledge of all factors (internal and external/market) affecting the Client's marketing goals and plans
• Participate in the development and agreement of measurement/success criteria
• Accountable as Damage’s hub for internal resourcing, workflow and communications
• Be an exceptional and proactive communicator w/ deep organizational skill
• Lead development of an ongoing communication strategy and publishing calendar/timeline based on identifying marketing objectives
• Responsible for keeping extensive and organized notes and records for clear, timely, and regular external and internal reporting on project statuses
• Knowledge of all client brand guidelines (legal, privacy, content, etc.) and ensure that all guidelines are adhered to
• Engage in contingency planning and recommend solutions
• Alert team if a project strays out of the originally set parameters
• Negotiate/communicate with creative, account management and production team members every step of the way on assigned projects
• Accountable to handle multiple project assignments within tight deadlines and see a project through from start to finish with minimal guidance
• Strong experience tracking and reporting on progress against schedules and budgets
• Ability to produce projects on time and on budget

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college/university
• 4+ years of project management experience at a marketing-related agency
• Strong creative talent and problem-solving skills
• Must balance high-priority, long-term projects with short-term, immediate deadlines
• The ability to anticipate needs
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and with a team in a fast paced, rapidly-changing entrepreneurial environment
• Confidence and skill handling clients in person and on the phone
• Excellent proficiency with MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Google Docs
• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Experience in PC gaming