Job Details

3-4 Month Contract with Opportunity for Full-Time

Zeus Jones is looking for a Program Manager to join our team of Producers. This role is designed for someone who has solid experience leading complex work, is excited to own meaningful pieces of the work while continuing to learn and grow and wants to deepen their craft alongside senior producers, strategists, creatives and designers.

Program Managers at Zeus Jones help turn ambition into action. They navigate complexity, bring structure to ambiguity and keep teams aligned and moving forward. This is a hands-on role where you'll lead defined programs or workstreams, partner closely with senior teams and steadily grow into greater ownership over time.

This is a role for an operator who understands marketing, brand strategy and how creative work actually gets made. We're seeking someone who can help translate bold ideas into actionable plans to solve real client problems.

You would join Zeus Jones with the title of Program Manager, working within our production team alongside producers with complementary and overlapping skillsets across program management, creative production, project management, product development and brand innovation. On projects, you'll partner closely with Strategy, Creative, Design and external collaborators as needed.

The day-to-day job (as best as we can define it):

This role is both client-facing and team-facing. You'll serve as a day-to-day partner to clients while managing the work behind the scenes to build trust, create clarity and strengthen relationships in close partnership with your team.

• Lead day-to-day program management for defined projects or workstreams, translating strategy into clear plans, timelines and deliverables.
• Partner with senior team members and/or clients to shape approaches, clarify objectives and align on scope, priorities and success metrics.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams (internal and external), ensuring work stays on track, risks are surfaced early and decisions are well communicated.
• Support creative and strategic problem-solving by organizing information, synthesizing inputs and helping teams move from ambiguity to action.
• Manage schedules, budgets and resourcing with guidance, escalating thoughtfully when tradeoffs or risks arise.
• Collaborate with other Producers to define and deliver assets such as digital experiences, apps, sites, events, programs, products and tools.
• Be a strong advocate for both the work and the people doing it, helping teams stay motivated, focused and aligned.
• Learn and grow your leadership, client presence and judgment through real work, feedback and mentorship.

The mindset we're looking for:

• Collective ambition: motivated by the quality of the work and the people around you, not a job title.
• A confident but curious leader who can guide teams forward while continuing to learn.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, with support-and willing to ask questions, test ideas and iterate.
• Organized, thoughtful and proactive, with strong follow-through.
• Self-aware and reflective; open to feedback and interested in growing your responsibilities over time.
• Curious and culturally engaged, with an interest in how brands show up in the world.
• Nimble and adaptable in a fast-moving, evolving environment.

Essential experience:

• 4-7 years of experience in program management, project management, production or a related role in a creative, consulting or agency environment.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and managing multiple workstreams.
• Strong organizational, communication and time-management skills.
• Solid problem-solving ability, with experience breaking down complex challenges into actionable steps.
• Working knowledge of digital, branding, innovation and/or experience design.

Role details:

• Contract-to-hire: 3-4 month full-time contract with the intention of converting to full-time based on mutual fit and business needs.
• Location: This role is preferably based in Minneapolis-St. Paul with remote a consideration for the right candidate, with regular travel for company core weeks (quarterly) and client work (1-4 times per quarter). For Minneapolis-St. Paul employees, we're hybrid, with Tuesday-Thursday in the office.
• Salary range: The role has a salary range of $95,000-$120,000 depending on experience (with contractor rate between $65-85/hr).

Culture & Benefits: Zeus Jones offers a strong culture, ability to work on a wide range of tough-to-crack but fascinating business problems and opportunity to grow alongside a set of industry-leading colleagues. In addition, we provide medical and dental insurance, 401(k) with employer match, unlimited PTO, short- and long-term disability insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, work from home reimbursements and generous parental leave.

How We Work: Zeus Jones encodes our clients' brands into AI-powered systems (what we call Living Brands) that guide how every tool, agent and experience shows up in the world. This means we are looking for people who are: curious about and engaged in AI; systems thinkers as well as implementers and who can quickly translate high-level ideas into tangible prototypes.