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.

The Details:

• Location: New York, NY (Lower Manhattan area)
• Duration: Approximately a 12-month consulting role with the possibility of extension (must be able to work on Blend’s W2 without sponsorship)
• 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!

What you’ll do:

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.
• Apply 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.

Education & 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.
• 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.

Technical & 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.

Communication & 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.

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. 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.

BLEND360 is an equal opportunity employer.