Project Manager

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to delivering impactful online experiences through cutting-edge digital content and optimization. As a partner with Aquent, we're seeking innovative talent to drive our mission forward, contributing to a vibrant digital landscape that engages and informs our audience.

Are you a master of orchestration, ready to lead a high-impact initiative that will redefine our digital presence? We're looking for a dynamic leader to spearhead a massive content overhaul, transforming our online narrative and significantly expanding our reach. In this pivotal role, you will manage a cross-functional team, driving the creation and optimization of high-volume digital content that directly impacts our audience engagement and overall digital footprint.

What You'll Do

• Project Orchestration & Workflow Management: Manage the end-to-end execution of a massive content overhaul, ensuring smooth handoffs across writers, quality assurance/fact-checkers, legal, and editors.
• Volume & Production Tracking: Drive accountability across multi-stream outputs, including:
  
  
  
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    Scaling long-form Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) article production from 15 per month to 15+ per week.

  • Overhauling hundreds of web pages, adding FAQs across numerous pages, updating program descriptions, and refreshing metadata.
  • Managing video editing production workflows for testimonial and explainer content.
  
  
  
  
• Resource & Capacity Planning: Track bandwidth, balance workloads, and oversee deliverables for a team of external and internal contractors (writers, editors, motion editors).
• Quality & Escalation Control: Standardize review processes, ensuring critical content updates (such as program/scholarship accuracy) are flagged for legal or stakeholder review when necessary.
• Status & Reporting: Maintain clear project status tracking, unblock team members, and keep leadership updated on timeline adherence and deliverable milestones.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 4+ years of project management experience within a marketing agency, in-house creative department, or digital media environment managing large-scale content projects.
• Demonstrated history of managing large-scale web operations, multi-writer content pipelines, or digital site refreshes (handling hundreds of pages/deliverables simultaneously).
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with high autonomy and multiple shifting priorities.
• Hands-on experience with project management platforms (e.g., Asana, Jira, Trello, ClickUp), Microsoft Teams/Office 365, and AI-assisted workflows or content generation tools.
• Exceptional organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Background in Higher Education, Healthcare, or complex, regulated industries with strict compliance/fact-checking needs.
• Familiarity with modern content strategies, including Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) content structures.

About Skill:

Skill connects the best professional, IT, engineering, financial and administrative talent with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to benefits such as health benefit contributions, retirement plans with match and flexible spending accounts.

Skill is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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