Marketing & Media Project Manager

Yadkinville, NC

📍Winston‑Salem & Yadkinville, NC (On‑Site) 

🏢Marketing Department | Reports to VP of Marketing

Help Build Something Bigger with Zirrus

At Zirrus, marketing isn’t just about campaigns—it’s about connection. We’re looking for a Marketing & Media Project Manager who can turn strategy into execution and complexity into clarity.

In this role, you’ll be the operational backbone of our marketing team, helping ideas move from concept to market with precision, momentum, and purpose. You’ll collaborate with internal teams, external partners, and vendors to deliver meaningful marketing initiatives that fuel growth across the communities we serve.

If you thrive at the intersection of creativity, organization, and execution—and love seeing great work go live—this role is for you.

What You’ll Do

Cross‑Team Collaboration

  • Act as the primary connector between internal marketing leads, vendors, agencies, and business partners
  • Keep stakeholders aligned on priorities, timelines, and next steps
  • Manage vendor timelines, production requirements, and budgets to ensure smooth delivery

Operational Excellence

  • Champion marketing workflows and timelines across the organization
  • Hold teams accountable to deadlines and established processes
  • Ensure campaigns launch on time and with executional excellence
  • Continuously improving how work gets done across marketing

Campaign & Asset Management

  • Own end‑to‑end coordination and trafficking of marketing assets across channels
  • Manage proofing, revisions, approvals, and quality control for creative deliverables
  • Maintain a real‑time view of initiatives using the Marketing Planning Process (MPP)
  • Manage and coordinate direct mail production and deployment cadence for, while identifying opportunities to improve the overall DM process and customer conversion rates.
  • Identify and provide proposals for sponsorship, activations, and community events. Oversee logistics and execution of events post event analysis.
  • Support the management of marketing budgets while working with division heads to track engagement metrics to improve program execution.
  • Monitor competitive marketing activity, including promotions and messaging trends

Strategic Project Support

  • Partner on customer surveys, performance analysis, and competitive benchmarking
  • Translate insights and data into clear recommendations that inform strategy

Who You Are

  • A natural organizer who brings structure to creative environments
  • A confident communicator who keeps teams aligned and informed
  • Proactive, solution-oriented, and comfortable anticipating roadblocks
  • A marketer at heart who cares about relevance, trust, and impact
  • Curious, analytical, and strategic—balancing creativity with performance
  • Adaptable and energized by growth and change - natural agility and stamina to deliver results in a startup environment.

What You Bring

  • 5–7 years’ experience with proven success in direct‑to‑consumer, digital marketing, production, or creative operations.
  • Proven experience managing timelines, deliverables, and vendor relationships
  • Strong understanding of asset production across print, digital, and video
  • Hands‑on experience with project management tools (Monday.com preferred or similar)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Graphic design or image‑editing skills are desired

Why Zirrus??

  • Work on campaigns that impact real people and real communities
  • Join a tight‑knit marketing team where your work is visible and valued
  • Gain exposure to senior leadership and influence strategy
  • Grow quickly with a clear succession path and expanding scope
  • Be part of a modern tech company with 75 years of momentum behind it
  • Great Employee Benefits - No Medical Deductible or Copay / Up to 9% 401k Match / PTO Roll Over

If you’re ready to build something meaningful, make your mark, and grow alongside a team that’s just getting started, this is your shot.