Project Manager, Influencer Marketing in Winnipeg

At Viral Nation, we specialize in building social-first ecosystems for brands to connect with the modern consumer journey. Our integrated solutions align strategy, talent, media, and technology with culturally relevant creativity to scale the world’s fastest-growing digital brands. Viral Nation offers a fluid, creative, and growth-oriented environment that will support your ambitions to apply your talents in an open, collaborative, and fast-paced culture.

The Project Manager is the operational backbone of integrated programs at Viral Nation. Embedded within the Client Services team, this role owns the "how" and "when" of program delivery - translating strategy into execution across every center of excellence. This is not an administrative support role. The PM is a hands-on execution partner who drives process, financial stewardship, and cross-functional coordination to keep programs on track, on budget, and moving forward.

Responsibilities:

• Project Management / Workstream Ownership: Maintain a master program tracker as the single source of truth across all assigned accounts - action items, resource links, work-back schedules, COE allocations, deliverables status, and project status, etc. Ensure consistency in project scope, establish key phases, define milestones, and set timelines — partnering with Client Services leadership to validate approach and calibrate expectations. Proactively flag scope drift and compressed timelines before they create downstream risk, escalating to leadership when the path forward requires senior judgment.
• Resource Management: In partnership with the VP of Client Services, schedule and assign appropriate resources for project completion. Forecast capacity, reallocate as needed, balance workload, flag capacity gaps before they become delivery problems, and build staffing recommendations when demand exceeds supply — ensuring tasks are completed on schedule.
• Operational Cadence & Communication: Schedule and lead internal meetings — standups, workflow meetings, internal reviews, and status syncs — including navigating calendar conflicts across teams. Ensure note-taking for all internal meetings (manual and via Gemini Notes/Transcript). Provide timely updates and documentation to internal teams — status, next steps, timeline shifts, and budget implications.
• Creative & Production Support: Collaborate with Producers to coordinate creative development logistics — schedule brainstorms, build production timelines, and integrate all creative and production milestones into the master WBS across pre-production, shoot, and post-production phases.
• Process Optimization & ROB Efficiency: Evaluate workflows across your assigned accounts and identify opportunities for practical improvement - escalating larger process changes to leadership for alignment. Support process standardization across accounts and project management ways of working.

Skills and Qualifications:

• 3+ years of project management experience in an agency, marketing, or integrated services environment.
• Experience managing integrated marketing campaigns for enterprise technology, AI, SaaS, or consumer technology clients within an agency environment is strongly preferred.
• Strong command of project management tools - Monday.com experience is a must.
• Excellent analytical skills - comfortable pulling data, running burn calculations, and translating numbers into actionable recommendations.
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to maintain clean documentation and infrastructure across multiple accounts.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills - able to drive accountability without direct authority and coordinate effectively across cross-functional teams.

This role has an annual salary range of $70,000 to $90,000. In addition to base salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits and total rewards package designed to support our team as they grow with us.

DEI Commitment: Viral Nation is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our agency. Viral Nation welcomes applications from people with visible and non-visible disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruiting and selection process.