MarTech Project Manager

Our client is a leading global financial services organization seeking a MarTech Project Manager to support its Marketing Data Platform organization. This individual will serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders, technology teams, and external vendors to coordinate the delivery of customer data and marketing platform capabilities. This role will play an important part in a large-scale marketing data platform migration and modernization initiative, helping drive project governance, cross-functional planning, stakeholder communication, and execution. The ideal candidate combines strong enterprise project management experience with an understanding of marketing technology, cloud-based data platforms, and customer data within a complex, regulated environment.

About Blend360

• Approximately a 12-month consulting role with the possibility of extension (must be able to work on Blend’s W2 without sponsorship)
• Diversity has played a critical role in our history, our growth, and continues to have a profound impact on our success.
• With a mission to fuel bold visions, Blend tackles significant challenges by seamlessly aligning human expertise with artificial intelligence.
• The company is dedicated to unlocking value and fostering innovation for its clients by harnessing world-class people and data-driven strategy.
• We believe that the power of people and AI can have a meaningful impact on your world, creating more fulfilling work and projects for our people and clients.

Responsibilities

• Project Management & Delivery Coordinate the planning and execution of marketing technology, customer data, and platform modernization initiatives.
• Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders, technology teams, and external vendors to facilitate alignment and keep project deliverables moving forward.
• Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, timelines, dependencies, and delivery tracking to support successful execution.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities and stakeholder engagement to ensure teams have the information, resources, and direction needed to meet project objectives.
• Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery approaches based on project needs, balancing iterative development with structured milestones, business requirements, and regulatory review processes.
• Track progress across workstreams, identify delivery risks and blockers, and coordinate resolution or escalation as appropriate.
• Project Governance & Stakeholder Communication Establish and maintain project governance practices, including meeting coordination, status reporting, decision documentation, and stakeholder communications.
• Prepare and maintain project dashboards, milestone trackers, and risk, issue, and dependency (RAID) logs.
• Facilitate governance meetings, steering committee discussions, sprint reviews, and project retrospectives.
• Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, decisions, and delivery impacts to stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Translate technical or operational challenges into clear business implications and actionable updates for non-technical audiences.
• Ensure stakeholders remain aligned on priorities, responsibilities, decisions, and next steps throughout the project lifecycle.
• Marketing Data Platform & Modernization Support Support initiatives involving customer data, marketing platform capabilities, data activation, and platform modernization.
• Gather, organize, and validate business, technical, and operational inputs to support planning and delivery.
• Work with teams responsible for cloud-based data platforms, such as Snowflake and Databricks, to coordinate activities, dependencies, and implementation milestones.
• Maintain a working understanding of first-, second-, and third-party data and how these datasets support marketing and customer engagement capabilities.
• Coordinate across business and technical teams to help ensure platform enhancements and migration activities align with business needs and operational requirements.
• Support delivery within a large, regulated environment where customer data governance, compliance, and stakeholder alignment are important considerations.
• Knowledge Management & Documentation Establish and maintain project knowledge resources, including Confluence spaces, documentation repositories, implementation guides, and reporting libraries.
• Ensure project documentation is accurate, organized, current, and accessible to relevant stakeholders.
• Document key decisions, processes, dependencies, implementation considerations, and action items.
• Develop consistent reporting and documentation practices that improve transparency, knowledge sharing, and continuity across project workstreams.
• Help ensure critical project knowledge is retained and available throughout the migration and modernization lifecycle.

Requirements

Location: New York, NY (Lower Manhattan area)

• & Experience 7+ years of experience in project management, program delivery, marketing technology, data platform initiatives, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional projects within large enterprise organizations.
• Experience coordinating business and technology stakeholders, vendors, and multiple delivery workstreams.
• & Project Management Skills Practical knowledge of cloud-based data platforms, such as Snowflake and Databricks, sufficient to understand project dependencies, coordinate delivery, and communicate effectively with technical teams.
• Familiarity with first-, second-, and third-party datasets and their use within customer data or marketing environments.
• Experience applying Agile methodologies, including Scrum or Kanban, as well as Waterfall or stage-gate delivery approaches.
• Ability to manage hybrid project environments involving iterative development, fixed deadlines, multiple approvals, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Experience building and maintaining project plans, dashboards, milestone trackers, status reports, and RAID logs.
• Familiarity with Confluence or similar knowledge management and documentation tools.
• Strong understanding of project governance, risk management, issue escalation, and delivery tracking.
• & Leadership Skills Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical topics in business-friendly language.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to coordinate across business, technology, operations, and vendor teams.
• Confidence facilitating meetings, governance forums, steering committee discussions, and project reviews.
• Ability to translate technical and creative blockers into business impact for senior leadership.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive in identifying risks, resolving blockers, and maintaining project momentum.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, managing competing priorities, and driving accountability in a complex, matrixed organization.

Preferred

• Experience supporting data platform modernization, migration, customer data, or marketing technology initiatives.
• Experience working in financial services or another highly regulated environment is strongly preferred.

Pay

• The starting pay rate for this role is $75-80 per hour.
• Actual compensation within the range will be dependent on several factors including but not limited to relevant experience, skills, certifications, training, and location.
• It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range and determining factors for compensation are considered for each individual circumstance.

Benefits

• We do offer benefits to our full-time consultants, including
• Health, Vision, Dental, 401K plan, Life Insurance, Pretax Commuter Benefits, and an incredibly supportive team cheering you on!
• BLEND360 also offers a competitive benefits program to meet the health and financial well-being of our team and their families.
• You can look forward to a range of benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401K, PTO, commuter benefits, spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, and EAPs.
• A diverse workforce is a strong workforce To deliver growth at BLEND360 and for our clients, we believe as a Talent Solutions Company, we have a responsibility and unique opportunity to positively impact the workforce.

• We are determined to have equality in the workplace, within our team and as an extension of our clients’ team. BLEND360 is an equal opportunity employer.
• Blend is a premier AI services provider, committed to co-creating meaningful impact for its clients through the power of data science, AI, technology, and people.