Senior Marketing Project Manager - (6 month Project Hire)
Hybrid Santa Monica Temporary Senior Marketing (General)
Senior Marketing (General) role at Skydance. Santa Monica · temporary · $100,000–$145,000 base.
SalaryStated by Skydance
$100,000 – $145,000
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
Role brief
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What you'll do
- You’ll plan marketing campaigns, track milestones, and keep deliverables moving toward on-time completion
- You’ll maintain schedules, task records, project plans, and status updates across initiatives
- You’ll coordinate marketing, creative, community, PR, development, and product marketing teams
- You’ll surface risks and dependencies, then help stakeholders resolve blockers
- You’ll run cross-functional meetings, support launch planning, and improve team workflows
What you bring
- At least six years in project management, marketing operations, production, or related work within entertainment or digital media
- You can manage several projects and stakeholder groups at the same time while maintaining strong follow-through
- You communicate and collaborate effectively across teams, solve problems, and adjust when priorities shift
- You have used Jira, Asana, Monday.com, Airtable, or a comparable project management platform
- You bring strong organization and close attention to detail; game marketing or launch experience is preferred
Who this fits
You’ll suit this role if you can keep complex marketing work organized across creative, community, production, development, and other teams. The job is hybrid in Santa Monica and begins as a six-month project hire, with possible extension or conversion to a staff position. It fits someone comfortable coordinating multiple stakeholders in a fast-moving environment and supporting game launches.
From the employer
Skydance Games, a division of Paramount, a Skydance Corporation, is building the future of franchise-driven interactive entertainment. As part of a global storytelling company defined by iconic worlds and multigenerational fandom, we see gaming not as an extension of our brands, but as one of the most powerful ways their stories come to life and evolve alongside the audiences who love them.
Through creativity, collaboration, and trust, we empower our teams to push boundaries and turn bold ideas into experiences that resonate with fans around the world.
Do you want to craft games that challenge expectations and inspire players? Come build something extraordinary with us. For more information on how we process your personal information, please review the Privacy policy located at https://privacy.paramount.com/recruitment-privacy-notice. ---
We realize that skills and expertise can come from many different experiences and paths, and we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements as written in the job description.
Paramount, a Skydance Corporation is a diversified media company creating high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, interactive/games, and animation divisions. Recruitment Fraud Alert It has come to our attention that there may be fraudulent activity by individuals impersonating our Talent Acquisition team. Skydance will only contact you from an official “@skydance.com” email address. If you suspect that you are being contacted by an unauthorized person or believe that the correspondence you have received is suspicious, please do not click on any links or attachments in such emails and submit any questions or concerns to our information security team at https://skydance.com/report-suspected-fraud/.
Through creativity, collaboration, and trust, we empower our teams to push boundaries and turn bold ideas into experiences that resonate with fans around the world.
Do you want to craft games that challenge expectations and inspire players? Come build something extraordinary with us. For more information on how we process your personal information, please review the Privacy policy located at https://privacy.paramount.com/recruitment-privacy-notice. ---
Skydance Games is seeking a Senior Marketing Project Manager to help drive the planning and execution of marketing initiatives across our portfolio of games. In this role, you will partner closely with marketing, creative, community, production, and development teams to ensure campaigns and initiatives are delivered on schedule and aligned with business objectives.
The ideal candidate is a highly organized project manager with experience coordinating complex marketing programs, managing multiple stakeholders, and keeping teams aligned in a fast-paced environment.
*This will be a 6 month project hire with the potential for extension and/or conversion to staff hire.
Responsibilities
- Manage the planning and execution of marketing campaigns, ensuring key milestones and deliverables are completed on time.
- Build and maintain project plans, schedules, task tracking, and status reporting across multiple marketing initiatives.
- Partner with Product Marketing, Brand Marketing, Creative, Community, PR, and Development teams to coordinate campaign execution.
- Identify project risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks, and work with stakeholders to develop solutions.
- Facilitate cross-functional meetings, track action items, and ensure alignment across teams.
- Coordinate with external vendors, agencies, and partners as needed to support marketing initiatives.
- Support launch planning activities and marketing asset development for upcoming game releases.
- Help improve project management processes, workflows, and team communication practices.
- Provide regular updates to stakeholders on project status, priorities, and timelines.
Requirements
- 6+ years of project management, marketing operations, production, or related experience in entertainment, or digital media, ideally at a major film studio.
- Experience managing multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.
- Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail and follow-through.
- Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Experience using project management tools such as Jira, Asana, Monday.com, Airtable, or similar platforms.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt in a dynamic environment.
- Experience supporting game marketing campaigns, product launches, or live-service content initiatives.
- Familiarity with game development and publishing processes.
- Experience working with creative teams and marketing asset production workflows.
- Passion for video games and interactive entertainment.
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, communications, project management, or a related field.
Preferred Qualifications
We realize that skills and expertise can come from many different experiences and paths, and we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements as written in the job description.
Paramount, a Skydance Corporation is a diversified media company creating high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, interactive/games, and animation divisions. Recruitment Fraud Alert It has come to our attention that there may be fraudulent activity by individuals impersonating our Talent Acquisition team. Skydance will only contact you from an official “@skydance.com” email address. If you suspect that you are being contacted by an unauthorized person or believe that the correspondence you have received is suspicious, please do not click on any links or attachments in such emails and submit any questions or concerns to our information security team at https://skydance.com/report-suspected-fraud/.