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# Associate Director, Project Management at Inizio Evoke

- **Company:** Inizio Evoke
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA / San Diego, CA / San Francisco, CA / Tempe, AZ
- **Compensation:** $120k–$135k
- **Posted:** 2026-06-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://www.inizioevoke.com/vacancy/inizioevoke/7961653?gh_jid=7961653

## Job description

About Inizio Evoke:

In the journey of life, your career should make a difference.

At Inizio Evoke, we come together—to do the best work, in the best possible place. We're all in. Because it's everyone's role to make health more human™.

About The Role:

The Associate Director, Project Management oversees 1-2 brands, leading PM teams, managing complex projects, and steering both strategic planning and seamless execution.

This role calls for a leader with the vision, precision, and operational strength to elevate complex, integrated delivery.

This is a remote position reporting to the Director, Project Management.

Brand Leadership

- Lead complex, cross‑agency initiatives across launch and mature brands.
- Own brand‑level planning including long‑range timelines, integrated Gantts, and multi‑channel workstreams.
- Guide PM team priorities and ensure clarity, delegation, and alignment across projects.
- Serve as a trusted client partner for scopes, budgets, timelines, and operational planning.
- Oversee workflows and recommend process improvements.
- Educate clients on agency processes, risk mitigation, and cross‑functional collaboration.
- Lead internal hot sheet, status, and kickoff meetings.

Financial Management

- Lead annual scopes and change orders, including creation of ballpark and final estimates, with cross‑functional alignment.
- Manage brand financials including estimates, forecasting, burn tracking, and reconciliation.
- Anticipate and mitigate risk through proactive planning and scenario modeling.
- Prepare executive financial and risk summaries.

Resource & Operational Management

- Partner with department heads to assess needs, resolve challenges, and optimize workflows.
- Monitor resourcing across brands and escalate gaps as needed.
- Drive operational efficiency by refining processes internally and externally.

## Team Leadership & Development

- Mentor and grow PM talent across PM and Sr. PM levels.
- Serve as an escalation partner for PM and cross‑functional teams.
- Balance workloads and monitor utilization.
- Lead onboarding and training while contributing to department learning initiatives.
- Assess team capabilities and provide targeted coaching.
- Key communications reported up to Director.

Agency Impact

- Champion agency culture and PMO initiatives.
- Support new business through operational insights and planning.
- Integrate emerging technologies into workflows, including early AI‑enabled tools.

## What You’ll Bring

- A seasoned PM with 6+ years of experience and 1–2 years in healthcare/pharma advertising, ready to lead teams and deliver high‑impact, integrated brand work.
- Strong budgeting and portfolio management skills, with understanding of launch‑to‑mature brand needs.
- Experience across key project types: websites, email programs, speaker programs, social media, digital initiatives, and cross‑departmental strategy oversight.
- Ability to manage up, including guiding senior‑level strategy partners and aligning cross‑functional teams.
- Nice to have: familiarity with AI‑assisted workflows as the agency builds AI‑driven tools.
- Comfort with operational platforms such as Excel, Power BI, Smartsheet, Basecamp and Workfront/Ziflow.
- Bachelors degree required.

## What We Offer

Inizio Evoke provides an exciting, flexible work environment. Our comprehensive benefits include:

- Competitive compensation packages

- Outstanding company-paid medical and dental benefits

- 401(k) matching

- Tuition reimbursement

- Flexible time off (FTO)

Our Pledge:

At Inizio Evoke, our goal is to provide you with the best possible support in an environment where you will grow and thrive.

Our culture is inherently entrepreneurial. We aim to maintain an environment that is nurturing and inclusive—embracing the uniqueness of each individual.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. This range may differ based on your experience and skill set, geographic location, and cost of living considerations. We consider compensation more than just a base salary – that’s why we also offer an exceptional range of flexible benefits, personal support and tailored learning and development opportunities all designed to help you realize your full potential both in life and at work.

## Compensation

$120,000—$135,000 USD

Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.

## About Inizio Evoke

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Inizio Evoke is a global health marketing, communications, and transformation platform that helps life sciences organizations unlock growth through data-driven insight and human centricity.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of Inizio)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2006
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (the agency was built through multiple acquisitions under the Evoke group)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Healthcare marketing, pharmaceutical advertising, health communications, life sciences commercialization
- Target customers: B2B, primarily large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies (Enterprise/Big Pharma)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Make health more human™" — using technology, data, and "applied empathy" to better understand behavior and deliver messaging in a more human way

## Products & Services
Inizio Evoke operates across five key service areas:

- **Brand & Creative**: Full-service creative development for healthcare brands, connecting data and creativity to deliver seamless experiences.
- **Comms (Communications)**: Strategic communications and public relations for health and life sciences organizations.
- **Transformation**: Consulting and organizational change to help healthcare brands navigate market complexities and build more intuitive, empathetic businesses.
- **Access**: Patient support and market access solutions, including patient services programs and reimbursement support.
- **Media**: Full-service media capabilities across all audiences, including omnichannel engagement, field force strategy, and automation.
- **Cognitev™ (Commercial Intelligence Platform)**: A proprietary platform that translates behavioral data into activation, fueling omnichannel engagement and optimizing field force strategy. Built on over 40 million hours of proprietary behavioral data from physicians and patients.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (Private subsidiary of Inizio)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$347 million** (2025 North American revenue, per MM+M Agency 100 2026 report). LinkedIn estimates $60 million, but the industry trade publication figure is more authoritative.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company is **Inizio** (a market-leading commercialization partner for health and life sciences). Key clients include **Gilead Sciences** (Michelle Kelly, Director of Patient and Consumer Marketing, Oncology, is a cited client).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Revenue rose **4%** in 2025 to $347 million.
  - Headcount of **1,117** full-time employees in 2025 (per MM+M), though LinkedIn shows 891 (likely due to different counting methods or timing).
  - Active job postings: **51** (up 75.9% year-over-year).
  - Operates in 11 offices across 4 countries (US, UK, Ireland, UAE, Singapore).
  - Has acquired multiple agencies: Giant Creative Strategy ($72.2M, 2018), Navience Healthcare Solutions ($24M, 2018), AboveNationMedia ($1.8M, 2018), KYNE ($19.4M, 2019), Diffusion Group (2022).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Data Moat**: Cognitev™ platform is built on 40+ million hours of proprietary behavioral data from physicians and patients — a unique asset that competitors cannot easily replicate.
- **Digital-First DNA**: Founded during the digital revolution of the early 2000s, the agency was structurally digital from the beginning, avoiding the "bolt-on" digital capabilities that plagued legacy networks.
- **AI Integration**: Aggressively embracing AI not as a standalone capability but as a structural transformation of how work is made and managed, reducing administrative friction for creative teams.
- **Full-Service Platform**: Offers end-to-end services from brand strategy to media buying to patient access, making it a comprehensive partner for pharma clients.
- **Parent Backing**: As part of Inizio, has access to a broader ecosystem of life sciences commercialization services.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-First Transformation**: CEO Reid Connolly is betting heavily on AI to give clients a competitive advantage, focusing on process simplification rather than flashy announcements. The goal is preparing for an "agentic future" where AI systems support work creation and management.
- **Data-Driven Personalization**: Using Cognitev™ to personalize strategy and messaging in real-time based on behavioral signals.
- **Omnichannel Excellence**: Unifying content, channels, and journeys to optimize engagement across all touchpoints.
- **Growth Through Acquisition**: History of strategic acquisitions to expand capabilities (creative, media, patient access).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Employee rating of **3.9/5.0** on LinkedIn, with Work-Life Balance scoring highest at **4.3/5.0**.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Not explicitly stated, but the agency has 11 offices globally (including major US hubs: New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, San Diego, Cary, Tempe).
- **Notable Perks/Engineering Culture**:
  - Focus on "applied empathy" and making work "the best possible place."
  - Strong emphasis on reducing administrative burden for creative teams through AI, allowing more focus on high-concept strategy.
  - Rapidly growing: job postings up 75.9% year-over-year.
  - Tech stack includes modern tools: React, Power BI, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Google Sheets, martech platforms.
- **Talent Flows**: Major talent sources include Digitas Health, FCB Health, AbelsonTaylor, Klick, and CDM — indicating a competitive, agency-experienced workforce.
- **Career Development**: Open roles span from Associate Director to Senior Director levels, with opportunities in strategy, analytics, creative, project management, and media.

## Sources
1. [inizioevoke.com](https://www.inizioevoke.com/)
2. [inizioevoke.com/careers](https://www.inizioevoke.com/careers)
3. [inizio.com](https://inizio.com/our-businesses/evoke/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/inizioevoke](https://www.linkedin.com/company/inizioevoke)
5. [mmm-online.com (Agency 100 2026)](https://www.mmm-online.com/companydetail/inizio-evoke-agency-100-2026/)

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