BRAINS | Senior Project Lead
About Brains
Brains is an independent creative agency and proud B-Corp. We're a group of no-a**hole, roll-up-our-sleeves creatives, united by a mission to spark market and cultural impact and connect people around shared values and passions. We partner with mission-driven brands looking to rethink and rewrite industry norms.
Overview
As a Senior Project Lead at Brains, you will be a key driver of client and creative project success, managing initiatives from inception to completion. Acting as both a project leader and client partner, you will ensure clear expectations, timelines, and deliverables are established and met. You will serve as a crucial link between clients and internal teams—including strategy, design, social, and brand—helping to align business goals with creative execution.
With a background in digital marketing, design, social media, brand, or production, you bring a strategic mindset and a knack for creative problem-solving. This role requires you to balance leadership with hands-on project execution, contributing to ideation, strategy, and pitches while ensuring smooth project operations. You will oversee project budgets, timelines, and internal workflows while identifying new ways to enhance client relationships and agency efficiency.
As a Senior Project Lead, you will be part of and supported by our bi-coastal Projects Team, collaborating across disciplines to drive impactful work.
As a Senior Project Lead At Brains, You Will
• Manage day-to-day project tasks, maintaining up-to-date project management tools (Asana preferred).
• Lead the development and implementation of project plans, ensuring seamless execution.
• Oversee contract deliverables, tracking progress and identifying scope changes as needed.
• Ensure projects stay on budget, on schedule, and aligned with strategic objectives.
• Serve as a key point of contact for clients, fostering strong, strategic relationships.
• Lead client meetings, presentations, and status updates with clarity and confidence.
• Manage multiple client engagements, spanning both retainer-based and strategy-driven projects.
• Work collaboratively with account and strategy teams to deliver seamless client experiences.
• Actively contribute to creative development, including ideation, brand strategy, and content execution.
• Partner with internal teams to ensure that creative outputs align with client goals.
• Research and coordinate partners such as photographers, influencers, and vendors for activations and events.
• Support new business pitches and proposal development with strategic insights and innovative thinking.
• Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering professional growth and skill development.
• Provide constructive feedback to enhance creative and strategic output.
• Support cross-functional collaboration, ensuring alignment between creative, production, and strategic teams.
• Help cultivate a culture of innovation, problem-solving, and continuous learning.
• Develop workback plans and manage schedules to keep projects on track.
• Oversee production logistics for events and shoots in collaboration with creative leads.
• Stay ahead of industry and platform trends, bringing fresh perspectives to project planning.
• Ensure consistency in brand tone and execution across all client touchpoints.
Who You Are
• An Experienced Leader: You have 7+ years of project leadership experience across brand, digital, and campaign initiatives.
• A Strategic Partner: You connect creative execution with business objectives and client goals.
• A Detail-Oriented Planner: You know how to scope projects, build workflows, and manage budgets effectively.
• A Confident Communicator: You are a natural communicator, comfortable leading meetings, presenting ideas, and building strong client relationships.
• A Problem-Solver: You thrive in fast-paced environments and proactively develop solutions.
• A Team Player: You lead with collaboration, adaptability, and a passion for great work.
At Brains, we value creativity, collaboration, and strategic excellence. As a Senior Project Lead, you will be a key force in ensuring our projects run smoothly, delivering impactful results for our clients and agency growth.
Brains On Inclusion
We hire great people from a wide breadth of backgrounds, not only because it’s the right thing to do, but also because it makes our work, our company and our communities stronger. Brains is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, national origin or any other federal, state or local protected class.
The Pay Range For This Role Is
75,000 - 125,000 USD per year(Remote - United States)
Advertising Services
Information Technology
Contract