Project Manager - Talent

  • Full-time

Company Description

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 creative 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. We’re driven to push boundaries and think beyond today to deliver strategies, and we’re just getting started. Our ability to stay at the forefront of the industry has fueled our success and will guide us in paving the path forward.

2021 was a transformational year for Viral Nation, having grown by 200% and we have even bigger ambitions for 2022 and beyond.  While we continuously exceed our goals, we need your help – our success is only as great as our people.  Strong performance leads to high expectations and we need to keep raising the bar!

Our Values:

We Constantly Evolve: Embracing change is both an opportunity and a necessity!

Courage: Challenging the norm drives us forward!

Diversity: We strive for excellence and recognize that our differences make us stronger. We respect and seek out the inclusion of differences, realizing we can learn from each other!

Resilience: Adversity is a springboard for growth!

Job Description

Who are you:

Viral Nation’s Talent Agency is looking for a seasoned Project Manager - Talent who loves all things related to the world of social media including trends, talent, and content. You will work closely with the Talent Team, Content Studio, and PR on client communications, planning, content advisory, and social research. We’re looking for that special candidate who understands and has a passion for social media, creators, and trends; someone who can bring multiple perspectives together, and communicate clearly and effectively with our talent.

Responsibilities: 

  • Deep familiarity with the creation of long and short-form content as well as photography, and daily/weekly/ad hoc production cadences
  • Must be a strong communicator both verbally and in writing
  • Must be able to juggle and manage multiple projects in various stages of completion simultaneously
  • Set meetings with clients across different verticals to develop personalized content calendars that can be produced and implemented independently, or with the help of the Studio Manager
  • Must be able to handle high-stakes accounts and be confident in proposing the next steps from a strategic, technical perspective.
  • Write trend reports for TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and YouTube rounding up what’s going on in the world of social media
  • Lead and handle communications and workflows, ensuring effective exchange of information and social media asset deliverables between Production, Post, and Strategy
  • Plan, handle, and communicate efficient internal and external workflows, and work on its improvements.
  • Navigate simultaneous demands, prioritize resources appropriately, and mitigate associated challenges.
  • Lead all aspects of projects to eliminate time-sensitive bottlenecks and produce high-quality creative expediently.
  • Run day-to-day social media operations, escalations and troubleshooting of production challenges.
  • Independently own budgets and relationships whenever necessary.
  • Coordinate with PR Team to ensure to maximize content production around PR opportunities
  • Act as an internal “manager” between PR and Talent for scheduling and on-the-ground service

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years of experience as a producer or similar role (talent booker, Sr PR, Production, Casting, etc)
  • 3+ years of project management experience 
  • agency experience is an asset 
  • Must be able to handle fast pace environment and multitask with different departments and projects
  • influencer / talent experience 

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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.