Axial1 Performance Science is hiring: Program Manager-Media in Chicago

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Base pay range

$80,000.00/yr - $95,000.00/yr

Role Overview

The Project Manager will be a key operational partner within the agency media organization—supporting the integration of paid search, paid social, and performance analytics teams into a unified, AI-enabled media engine.

This role ensures strategic initiatives are executed on time, within scope, and with cross-functional clarity. The Project Manager will serve as the connective tissue across Paid Media, Product Marketing, Creative, and Analytics—driving disciplined execution, reporting, and continuous optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Planning & Execution: Develop and maintain project plans across campaign launches, testing pilots, optimization programs, and quarterly cycles.
• Manage project intake, prioritization, and workflow through Monday.com, ensuring visibility, accountability, and milestone tracking.
• Help translate strategic priorities into actionable deliverables and timelines.

Operational Coordination

• Partner with channel leads (SEM, Paid Social, Display, Affiliates) and external agencies to align resources, pacing, creative readiness, and testing roadmaps.
• Support weekly pacing and performance meetings; summarize key actions and ensure timely execution of follow-ups.
• Conduct post-launch retrospectives and document learnings in shared repositories for organizational knowledge.

Process & Governance

• Maintain standard operating procedures that enable scale, quality, and consistent campaign delivery.
• Partner with Analytics, Finance, and Product Marketing to ensure performance data, spend tracking, and ROI reporting are aligned and reliable.
• Serve as the operational liaison between client teams and agency, tracking deliverables and campaign milestones.
• Maintain the integrated media operations calendar (testing, creative refreshes, and optimizations) within Monday.com.

Reporting & Communication

• Support the preparation of executive-ready project and performance updates, highlighting trends, risks, and resource allocation.
• Manage stakeholder communication plans to ensure alignment and transparency across leadership and partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, or Business (PMP certification preferred).
• 3-5 years of experience in project or program management, preferably in a performance marketing or media agency environment.
• Strong familiarity with paid media operations (Search, Social, Display, and Affiliate) and associated performance metrics.
• Hands‑on experience with project management tools.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to simplify complex initiatives for executive audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast‑paced, data‑driven environment.

Company Description:

Axial1 is a full-service performance marketing firm that utilizes advanced analytics, powered by AI/ML, to activate all performance drivers and channels. From search and social to commerce and display and beyond – our proprietary data‑driven analytics enable clients to move from data to insight to performance more effectively and efficiently across the entire path to purchase.

Axial1 believes in a diverse environment that encourages original thinking about our business and empowers us to communicate with a global world of customers. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity of thought as they help us challenge and refine our solutions. Axial1, as a best‑in‑class marketing agency, welcomes big ideas, and believes they can come from anywhere.