Overview

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Overview details describe a hybrid role based out of San Francisco, requiring onsite engagement an average of 3 days per week. Local to the Bay Area preferred or candidates willing to relocate.

Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee all aspects of project delivery to ensure planograms are accurately implemented and maintained, delivered on time for launches or deadlines, and exceed client expectations.
• Independently lead a large portfolio of concurrent retail merchandising projects, understanding the strategic nuances of each product and program.
• Develop detailed program plans, visualize roadmaps, and align resources against project requirements, considering complex dependencies and potential conflicts.
• Understand client strategies, drive scope prioritization, and respond with flexibility and momentum.
• Define, document, and optimize process innovations to drive efficiencies; adopt automation and tools to streamline workflows.
• Anticipate, identify, and communicate program risks and proactively offer solutions to mitigate challenges.
• Lead a geographically distributed project management team to manage high-volume creation, review, production, and delivery of data and creative assets, ensuring accuracy and meeting tight deadlines.
• Leverage advertising agency background and experience in high-volume creative production at scale; prefer a background in retail merchandising, in-store marketing, or field marketing; experience with store planograms, schematics, renderings, layouts, floorplans, and related deliverables; ability to implement product strategy for retail environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of project management experience in an advertising agency environment, managing high-volume delivery of creative assets within a defined product lifecycle.
• Experience coaching geographically distributed project management teams.
• Excellent attention to detail with ability to prioritize and manage multiple complex, concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills to manage, lead, and influence clients, stakeholders, and global teams.
• Experience using complex project and workflow management tools.
• Experience developing and managing creative project scopes and delivery timelines, including identifying and resolving issues, errors, and delays.
• Experience in the consumer electronics industry is a plus.
• Entrepreneurial, proactive mindset.
• Prior experience managing teams in the retail planning & merchandising space is strongly preferred, including familiarity with:
• retail customer experience implications for space planning decisions to maximize sales and enhance the shopping experience;
• business drivers for merchandising, store planning, and retail partnerships worldwide;
• large production teams using modeling and 2D/3D software to develop floor/space diagrams, table/fixture layouts, and product icons; and
• quality assurance expectations to ensure deliverables meet exacting specifications (consistency, visual indicators, spacing/sizing, product accuracy, and volume accuracy).

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation Range: $144,670-$188,025 annually. Compensation determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and position requirements; may be modified as needed.
• Medical, dental, vision, 401k, paid time off, and other standard benefits for regular roles; temporary roles may have eligibility for specific plans.
• Benefits offerings are available to eligible U.S. based employees, reviewed annually, and governed by plan documents.
• Additional benefits include paid family care, adoption/fertility support, pet adoption support, wellness reimbursements, tuition assistance, flexible working arrangements, and employee resource groups.

Company & Equal Opportunity

Level Studios is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, or other protected characteristics. For accommodation or assistance with the application process, contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Application deadline: October 6, 2025.