What is Lions & Tigers?
Lions & Tigers offers professional staffing & workforce solutions to Fortune 500s & startups. We design custom teams with full-time & fractional support from highly-skilled communications, marketing, operations, and change specialists for ongoing engagements and deliverable-based projects. We create solutions to match an organization’s evolving needs.
By building and supporting blended workforces, we center mothers and BIPOC professionals in our model to keep people in the workforce, driving innovation and profitability. Our mission is to co-design a more human and valued work experience advancing impact, access & belonging.
Recent accolades for Lions & Tigers:
- Microsoft Diverse-Owned Supplier of the Year (2021)
- Microsoft Medium Supplier of the Year (2022)
- Puget Sound Business Journal's Washington Best Workplaces (2020, 2021, 2022)
NOTE: This application is always open and allows future consultants to apply at any time in order to join our talent pipeline. The job description below is intended as a sample of the most common responsibilities / skills for our Marketing Program Managers.
Role Overview
The successful Marketing Program Manager is a leader with deep project and program management toolkits. You don’t hesitate when jumping in to ongoing program operations but you can also develop project management fundamentals from scratch on new projects. You’re a skilled communicator who sets expectations for your team (and clients) clearly and effectively. You’re always ten steps ahead with risk management and can spot and address an issue before anyone even knew it was coming. Whether managing multiple smaller projects or just one complex project, under your watchful eye projects come to fruition on time, on budget and with satisfied stakeholders all around.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Manage client and internal projects and workstreams.
- Create project work plans and revise as needed to meet changing requirements.
- Ensure that client objectives are clearly understood and communicated; and that teams are setup to deliver on client expectations.
- Develop toolsets for individual client needs to ensure that communications, meeting cadences and workstream progress is easily shared and understood for large groups of stakeholders.
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks on all projects and ensure project stays within scope.
- Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques.
- Prepare compelling deliverables for clients, owning and delivering the finished product.
- Understand complex technical requirements and effectively influence stakeholders to ensure projects are fully resourced.
- Support strong relationships with clients, other stakeholders and colleagues by working in a collaborative, human-centered and service-oriented way.
- In support of client success, identify areas of opportunity for Lions + Tigers to provide iterative or incremental support.
Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications
- Five+ years of project management, program management, marketing/management consulting and/or industry practitioner experience.
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: digital marketing, marketing strategy, marketing technology, eBusiness and eCommerce, customer experience strategy and design, customer insights and analytics.
- Superior communication and client-facing skills; able to engage with multiple-stakeholder teams.
- The ability to collaborate effectively with others in high-pressure situations and to manage productively through conflict.
- Experience working with subject matter experts with deep content knowledge.
- Motivated, self-starting, comfortable with high rates of change — and with a natural desire to accept challenges and diverse assignments.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification (or similar) is preferred.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office is required, Microsoft Project is preferred.
- Able to work effectively remotely (and across time zones, when necessary).
Lions & Tigers employees enjoy a generous benefits package, more information about benefits can be found here: L&T Benefits Summary
Our Core Values:
- COMMUNITY We come together in collective action to nurture a community that lifts one another up and prioritizes economic access and representation. Together, and with intention, we achieve more than we ever will alone.
- IMPACT Entrepreneurs at our core, we care deeply and take ownership for how we show up in the world. Individually and in community, we operate in highest and best use, measuring success in outcomes not output.
- STEWARDSHIP We believe in service plus advocacy. It is with great responsibility that we leverage the resources of our clients’ investments in us and our own corporate dollars to leave all things better than we found them.
- COURAGE With determination and resilience, we lead. True to our word, emphatic in our actions. Our stride is long and heads are held high, as we push the boundaries of what is accepted in pursuit of what is possible.
Non-Discrimination Policy
Lions & Tigers is an equal opportunity company committed to building a diverse and engaged workforce. It is the policy of Lions & Tigers to provide equal opportunity to all candidates regardless of race, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, partner status, pregnancy/childbirth or any other category protected by federal, state, and/or local laws.
The Application
Your thoughtful and complete answers to the questions below are greatly appreciated! Our team thoroughly reviews all items before deciding which candidates to move forward.