About the role

As a Marketing Project Manager at Stryve, you’ll play a critical role in leading the day-to-day delivery of complex and highly custom marketing projects across branding, websites, and digital strategy initiatives.

This is a client‑facing role that sits at the centre of communication between clients, leadership, and delivery teams. You’ll regularly work directly with clients to manage expectations, solve problems, and keep work moving forward.

You’ll be responsible for creating structure in fast‑moving environments, protecting delivery teams from unnecessary chaos and scope creep, and keeping clients informed and supported throughout the engagement.

As the first person in this role , you’ll also play a key part in shaping our project‑management practices, building systems that scale, and helping us level up how we plan, track, and deliver work.

Location & Work Arrangement

This position is remote‑first and open to Canadian residents who can work in the Eastern Time zone. You’ll need to travel to our Kitchener office or nearby client sites a few times a year; being within a commutable distance is essential.

Responsibilities

- Building and maintaining project plans, timelines, milestones, and workback schedules
- Scheduling and facilitating client and/or internal team meetings, including agendas, notes, and follow‑ups
- Managing project timelines, priorities, deliverables, risks, and dependencies
- Managing project scope and proactively preventing scope creep
- Navigating difficult client conversations, misalignment, or delivery challenges with professionalism and confidence
- Protecting delivery teams from unmanaged requests and keeping work focused and achievable
- Managing project onboarding and off‑boarding processes
- Maintaining Jira projects, sprint planning, workflows, and task management
- Tracking budgets, hours, utilization,



and project delivery health
- Developing and improving operational systems and delivery processes
- Analyzing project post‑mortems and identifying opportunities to improve how we work

Requirements

Our new Marketing Project Manager will bring 4+ years of experience managing complex client‑facing projects, ideally in an agency, professional services, consulting, or fast‑paced service‑based environment.

- Proven experience managing multiple concurrent projects involving timelines, budgets, scope, stakeholders, and cross‑functional teams
- Strong client‑facing communication and account management capabilities; confident leading meetings, video calls, presentations, and navigating tricky client conversations
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with a high degree of professionalism and organization
- Comfort working with remote teams using digital project‑management and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Tempo, SharePoint, Zoho, Miro, Microsoft Suite)
- Ability to coordinate across multidisciplinary teams (design, marketing, account, vendors)

Bonus points if you have

- PMP certification
- Experience with agile project‑management principles
- Experience in a marketing or digital agency, or professional services environment
- Experience managing website, branding, or digital marketing projects
- Familiarity with Statements of Work (SOWs), retainers, and client contracts
- One word in your cover letter formatted to orange
- A love of process improvement and operational efficiency





What we offer

- Market-competitive salary of $75,000 to $80,000, depending on experience
- Your choice of Mac or PC, whichever you work best on
- $500 home office credit in your first year, $250/year thereafter
- Unlimited wellness days
- A health‑spending account that covers 100% of medications, dental, vision, etc., with no waiting period
- A separate health‑spending account dedicated to mental health providers and EAP program
- A wellness and fitness benefit of $600 for any non‑medical items that improve your health
- An annual education benefit of $1,000 to use to further your skills and knowledge
- Fifty dollars per month towards your cell‑phone bill or $600 a year for a new device
- 2 paid days per year to volunteer with a donation budget that we will donate to a charity of your choice
- Winter holiday shut down during the last week of December
- 6 weeks of parental leave top‑up to 100% of your salary and 6 months of additional childcare benefits upon return to work
- Annual bonus (based on company performance)
- Additional sabbatical vacation time based on tenure
- Core hours of 8:30 AM–4:30 PM with an hour lunch
- An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self. We recognize the impact of diverse voices and backgrounds on the growth of our people, work, and company. Psychological safety is the core of our culture, and no one will be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

Stryve embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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📌 Marketing Project Manager (Kitchener)
🏢 Stryvemarketing
📍 Kitchener