• Understanding of retail marketing planning to support store performance and growth in partnership with the RMOs and Store Leaders • Take personal ownership for timely / effective project delivery from idea to execution • Foster and strengthen OEM relationships at the local levels by aligning retail sales promotion in a timely manner to drive customer satisfaction and store loyalty • Collaborate with partners and other PMs to ideate and deliver on strategic business initiatives that align with customer loyalty goals • Proactively monitor project progress, identifying and addressing potential risks or issues • Develop project scope and deliverables, ensure resource availability and allocation, and facilitate project-related team meetings as needed to champion a customer-forward approach • Serve as the primary point of contact for project-related communications • Deliver progress reports and status updates to stakeholders to ensure effective communication is maintained • Promote the alignment and integration of key company initiatives and strategies, including leveraging internal solutions, serving as a resource for RMOs and partners

• Get into Notion and learn how the Brand Studio currently operates • Shadow the intake process and meet your immediate teammates and key stakeholders across the marketing org • Start building relationships so future scope and deadline conversations feel collaborative rather than transactional • Take ownership of request triage and ensure briefs are complete before they reach a Brand Studio team member • Shadow sprint planning for the first sprint of the month, then take over running point on it for the second sprint • Keep sprints on track by surfacing blockers early and making confident recommendations when tradeoffs are needed • Start identifying patterns in the types of work coming in and propose additions to the brand asset menu where repeatable work types have emerged • Begin using Claude Code (or similar) to build improvements to our internal capacity planning web app, • Continue refining and improving the internal capacity planning web app and sprint planning processes based on how the team actually uses it and how work actually gets done • Take on additional project management tasks as assigned, and stay responsible for holding team members accountable to deadlines, surfacing blockers, making necessary tradeoffs and helping the team to increase their output

Title: Freelance Senior Project Manager Location: Atlanta United States Job Description: At AKQA (part of WPP), we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products and services. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital services and applications that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients. Project Managers at AKQA are trusted delivery partners, bringing structure, clarity, and accountability to complex digital engagements. They build the conditions for great work to happen, aligning teams, managing competing priorities, and ensuring that every workstream moves forward with purpose and precision. We are seeking an experienced Freelance Senior Project Manager with a strong emphasis on digital product delivery to support a well-known, fast-growing Atlanta-based quick-serve restaurant brand where AKQA has helped spearhead many of their customer and operational innovations. This is a meaningful, high-visibility engagement where strong project leadership directly impacts the digital experiences of millions of people across thousands of locations. ROLE REQUIREMENTS - Lead day-to-day project management across a complex digital product engagement, ensuring clarity of priorities, timelines, deliverables, and accountability across all workstreams - Serve as the central point of coordination across a multi-agency team supporting the client, including internal AKQA disciplines (strategy, UX, design, technology) and other agency partners, ensuring alignment and clear communication across all workstreams - Manage project schedules, milestones, and dependencies with meticulous detail, proactively identifying risks and driving timely resolution - Oversee scope management and change control, partnering with discipline leads to assess impact and maintain alignment on approved work - Support resourcing coordination, ensuring the right people are engaged at the right time across the project lifecycle - Facilitate regular project ceremonies and working sessions, keeping teams aligned and focused on outcomes - Maintain clear and consistent project documentation including status reports, decision logs, and meeting notes that keep all stakeholders informed and accountable - Partner with the client to manage expectations, communicate progress, and navigate complexity with composure and clarity - Ensure delivery processes align with agile, waterfall, or hybrid methodologies as required by the engagement - Contribute to continuously improving delivery practices and ways of working within the project and broader team QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS - 5+ years of project management experience within a digital agency or product delivery environment, with a strong emphasis on digital products and services - Proven ability to manage complex, multi-workstream engagements with overlapping timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder groups - Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong instincts for anticipating issues before they escalate - Clear, confident communicator with both technical and non-technical audiences - Comfortable working independently and proactively in a fast-paced environment - Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and Slack as core tools for project management, documentation, and team collaboration - Collaborative and solutions-oriented, with a team-first approach and a commitment to quality delivery Location & Commitment - Remote; must work Eastern Time Zone working hours. - July 21, 2026 through November 25, 2026 - 40 hours/week - Expected compensation: $3,000 to $3,200/week

• Serve as the primary contact between the sponsor and the organization at the project level. • Ensure escalation pathways adhered to internally and externally (Rules of Engagement – communication pathways). • On projects where the scope requires, ensure clear delineation in responsibilities and communication pathways for secondary project leads (such as lead in a specific region, lead for a specific vendor(s) or subset of delivery). • Accountable for the overall delivery of the cross-functional project (time, cost, quality). • Ensure financial stewardship at a project level by demonstrating an intimate understanding of the contract, resource alignment to budget, management of Out of Scope activity, drive the Con Mod process/negotiations and team execution to timelines. • Establish, communicate and manage customer expectations to achieve optimal delivery during the project • Drive Risk Identification and Issue Resolution at project level (RBQM/RESOLVE). • Ensure project team compliance with organization policies, SOPs, ICH- GCP, regulatory and project specific requirements.