Freelance Senior Program Manager

On the day Fallon opened its doors without a single client, it did so under the headline, “A new advertising agency for companies that would rather outsmart the competition than outspend them.”

More than 40 years later, and this mantra is unwavering. We are a creatively-led agency who pinned our public reputation on our commitment to smarts.

Smart brands create something of value in the world: entertainment value, social value, and belief value. Smart brands are additive to peoples’ lives and to culture. They help build ideas in the world, and they leave something behind.

Overview

We are hiring a Freelance Senior Program Manager to work hybrid 3 days/week in our NY office at 375 Hudson Street. This role will manage fully integrated campaigns (TVCs, radio, print, social, digital, OOH) for one of our CPG clients.

This freelance contract will start ASAP and will be reviewed to extend every 30 days.

Responsibilities

Responsible for the scoping and management of multiple concurrent large scale-projects and client engagements totaling over $4-8MM annually

Partner with Client Service and Finance leads to actively manage business challenges, client relationships, developing annual scopes and contracts, estimates and staffing plans against scoped work, and maintaining profit margin

Maintain and enforce high standards of communications and documentation, including status, financial reports, timelines, scopes, change orders, burn reports and forecasting, best practices and asset management, etc.

4-6 years program management experience in a creative services organization working with cross-functional stakeholders including strategy, data and planning, creative, editorial, experience design, production, technology, operations and resourcing

Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills

Solutions-oriented mindset with a strong favoritism towards action

Expert at managing traditional, digital, social, broadcast, OOH, radio and print deliverables

Excellent presentation and communication skills

An ability to motivate, support and understand their teams

Comfortable in a fast paced, growing environment

Demonstrated understanding of project management methodologies, process and tools, including staffing, scoping, estimating, burn management

Experience adapting project management methodologies (Agile & Waterfall) to the needs of a given project/client

Experience partnering with integrated and production teams to drive production process in areas of broadcast/video, print and digital

Familiarity with Smartsheet and Microsoft Teams

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Compensation Range: USD $46.81 - USD $64.09/Hourly. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met.

For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 10/14/2026.