Fenton is the social change agency taking on the world’s toughest challenges in human rights, social and economic justice, environment, education, and public health. Primed with deep issue expertise and powered by the creativity and passion of 80 professionals working across the country, we create strategies for clients to help build a more just, equitable and sustainable world. A fast growing and award-winning agency, #1 PR Firm for Nonprofits — O’Dwyer’s, 2026 — we lead the industry in diverse representation as 61% of our entire staff and 69% of our leadership team are people of color. We are women-led as 74% of our staff are women.
With a culture steeped in social change and activism, we offer a collaborative work environment, excellent benefits and a strong sense of purpose and community across the agency. We are also a remote-forward agency, where employees have the flexibility to work from their homes or meet with teams in co-working spaces. The majority of our employees reside within 35 miles of the New York City, Washington DC, Los Angeles and the SF/Bay Area regions in order to facilitate in-person working opportunities and team building events and retreats.
We are a fully- integrated communications agency, with expertise in public relations, digital communications, advertising, creative services and a centralized project management department to ensure that processes are standardized to bring efficiency to the organization at scale.
We are currently seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of work on a variety of accounts whose missions are to promote progressive social change.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Serve as the lead project operational counsel on a select number of complex projects, building staff plans and budgets for proposals, developing audits and reset plans.
- Support the Account Lead and senior leadership team to define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business objectives
- Establish effective and appropriate project governance for a project: work across practices and with operations team to staff projects and set up the project infrastructure (e.g., Kantata, team calls, Slack, email alias)
- Help leads project hours needed from staff assigned to accounts via staff plans and charts, working with other senior staff to distribute billable hours among junior staff as necessary and with Operations to account for this time in Kantata
- Identify project targets against scopes and build detailed work plans in Kantata against targets, assign dates and deadlines to staff.
- Provide weekly, monthly and quarterly oversight of multiple large accounts including strategic counsel, quality control checks, and evaluation of account progress and client satisfaction in support of Account Leads
- Manage day-to-day deliverable traffic via PM tools, assigning, reassigning, and following up with staff as needed to ensure teams meet deadlines
- Conduct project reporting and track issues and risks for Account Lead, implementing corrective actions and decisions by Account Lead to improve project profitability, product quality, staffing/performance, capacity/labor, and client satisfaction.
- Support Account Lead’s project renewal and growth efforts by providing KPI reporting
- Work closely to train and oversee a dedicated Project Manager or other account staff in the PM role while providing account management counsel to the AVP/VP on the project.
If you thrive in team centered environments, have an entrepreneurial drive and love the chase of new business, then let us know!
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 7+ years of prior relevant experience in a marketing/advertising/communications agency
- Demonstrated experience managing large integrated accounts spanning all departments (account, digital, advertising, creative)
- Non-traditional educational paths are welcomed
- PMP Certified
- Detail-oriented, able to multitask and prioritize multiple projects.
- ed about social change and naturally curious and eager to take on new challenges.
- Strong organization and planning skills, collaboration, and flexibility in a team-centered environment
Fenton Offers
- Commitment to pay equity practices.
- Salary band for this position is $125,000 – $150,00
- Year-end discretionary bonus.
- New business commission incentive.
- Comprehensive healthcare plans with generous employer premium contribution.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
- 401K with employer match (50% up to 6% of your salary, eligible at 90 days of employment);
- Profit sharing plan (2% of total W2 earnings, entry date in the succeeding year after completing a year of employment).
- Flexible PTO for exempt staff and generous accrual policy for non-exempt staff.
- 12 paid company holidays.
- Discretionary company closing between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits via WageWorks.
- Mobile phone allowance $100/month.
- We have adopted a hybrid remote/in-office worksite model. We require all employees to live within a 35-mile radius of any one of our four strategic hubs (New York, D.C., LA or SF). You have the option to work remotely from your home and will travel to Company meetings/events as needed, or you can work from any one of our shared workspaces.
- Team retreats and events to connect with fun, talented co-workers.
- Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Fenton is an anti-racist and intersectional organization that prioritizes the needs of those who have been historically marginalized or oppressed. We do the work of creating positive social change as an act of repairing the harm done to those who have been and are currently disenfranchised across racial, gender, sexual orientation and preference, religious and other marginalized backgrounds. We are committed to doing work that is rooted in justice and equity and continuing to learn how to do this work better.
People of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities and women are strongly encouraged to apply. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are committed to building and nurturing a diverse and inclusive staff. We believe that our firm’s continued success is driven by hiring and retaining high caliber staff from all backgrounds, experiences, identities, and orientations. We are committed to supporting our staff in growing their careers. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please email Human Resources (lgomez@fenton.com) and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
