Marketing Project Manager

About Us

At Zevia, we’re creating a world of better-for-you flavor—better for people and the planet. Our team is made up of courageous challengers and tenacious builders who are passionate about our mission. We’re solutions-oriented, always improving, and we operate with a healthy thirst for risk. We believe in staying true to our convictions while continuously learning and evolving.

At our core, we are people-centric. We care deeply, lead with empathy, and operate as one team—no egos, just a shared purpose. We strive to reflect the diversity of our consumer base within our organization and foster a culture of empathy and humility.

Together, we aim to impact global health, provide affordable better-for-you products, and protect the planet by reducing plastic.

We’re fighting the good fight to change the beverage industry for the better — and we’re just getting started.

Summary 

The Project Manager plays a critical role in ensuring Zevia’s marketing initiatives are executed with clarity, focus, and efficiency. This role is a central point of coordination across Creative, Brand, Product Marketing, E-comm, Sales, Ops, and external partners. 

Reporting to the Director of Design, the Project Manager owns project intake, prioritization, timelines, and trafficking across cross-functional stakeholders. This includes supporting cross-functional innovation and packaging development projects, which often run in parallel, as well as broader marketing efforts including internal production planning for brand campaigns and launches, ensuring projects move smoothly from kickoff through asset delivery.  

This is a highly collaborative, systems-minded role focused on improving visibility, as well as driving alignment and shared understanding across teams. The Project Manager translates business priorities into actionable plans, manages timelines, gathers the right inputs upfront, and clearly communicates project progress to keep work on track. 

The Ideal Candidate

You are an experienced project manager who can manage complex, cross-functional projects, understands creative work deeply, and balances structure with flexibility. You’re comfortable working across disciplines and seniority levels, and you communicate with confidence and clarity. 

You build trusted relationships, bring focus to complexity, and ask the right questions early to keep work moving forward. You excel at refining systems, solving problems, and managing complex marketing initiatives with multiple stakeholders and evolving demands. You take pride in helping teams deliver strong work and maintain momentum by removing unnecessary friction with creativity, diplomacy, and thoughtful leadership. 

What You’ll Do 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Own cross-functional coordination for marketing initiatives, ensuring clear project ownership, aligned scope, and consistent communication across launch, ecomm, and commercialization efforts. 
• Lead day-to-day project management, keeping work on brief, on schedule, and aligned to business priorities. 
• Own brief intake and project setup through a centralized system, gathering and validating all required inputs, specs, materials, and approvals prior to kickoff. 
• Own a shared project management tool as the central source of truth, managing licenses and seats while implementing workflows, blueprints, optimizations, and training to drive consistent adoption and visibility. 
• Build, maintain, and support integrated project plans across creative, brand, and product marketing workstreams, proactively identifying risks, conflicts, or shifting priorities. 
• Participate in cross-functional meetings, proactively surfacing challenges, clarifying dependencies, and driving resolution before issues impact timelines. 
• Align design resources across teams by assessing capacity, sequencing work appropriately, and recommending external partners or additional support when needed. 
• Support launch and commercialization efforts by coordinating needs across all stakeholders, ensuring cross-functional action items are tracked, aligned, and completed on time. 
• Support design-related legal and finance processes by coordinating paperwork, tracking approvals, and ensuring required documentation is submitted accurately and on time in partnership with Legal, Finance, and Operations. 
• Own launch documentation and reporting so all stakeholders are working from a shared, up-to-date, and accurate source of truth. 
• Manage final asset organization, versioning, approvals, and trafficking to internal teams, sales partners and external agencies. 

What We're Looking For

• 5-7 years of experience in project management, creative operations, marketing operations, or a related field. 
• Strong understanding of creative and internal production processes across marketing initiatives, with a sharp eye for detail, documentation, and efficiency. 
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams, complex timelines, and competing priorities. 
• Demonstrated experience building and managing integrated project plans across multiple workstreams. 
• Hands-on experience with project management tools, with Wrike strongly preferred. 
• Background in agency, marketing, communications, or related environments. 
• Exposure to CPG, natural products, or adjacent categories preferred. 
• Familiarity with print and digital production processes, ecommerce workflows, and asset management. 
• Highly organized, resourceful, and confident, with the leadership presence to influence stakeholders and drive alignment. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable navigating senior stakeholders and complex projects. 

Supervisory Responsibility

This position does not have direct supervisory responsibility but will serve as a coach and mentor within the department, supporting best practices in project management and cross-functional collaboration. 

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.  The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. 

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

Full-Time Exempt

Travel

This position may require ad hoc travel, per business need.

Work Authorization/Security Clearance

Must be eligible to work in the U.S.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

What We Offer

• A collaborative environment, where everyone contributes and delivers
• A place where you can grow, develop and learn
• Competitive compensation that includes a base salary, discretionary bonus and stock options. See below for range.
• A comprehensive benefits package which includes:
  • An array of medical plans
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Group Life Insurance
  • Short-term disability + Long-term disability
  • Flexible Spending Accounts: Medical, Dependent and Limited Use
  • Health Savings Account
  • Accident Insurance
  • Critical Illness Insurance
  • Hospital Indemnity Insurance
  • Legal Insurance
  • Travel Assistance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Pet Insurance
  • 401k Plan (Traditional and Roth)
  • Vacation, Personal/Sick Days, and Holidays
  • Professional development contributions
  • And of course, all the Zevia you can drink!

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified job candidates and employees. To that end, Zevia maintains a workplace free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of an individual’s race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists), color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical condition), gender (including gender identity, gender expression, change of sex, and transgender status), sexual orientation, sexual and reproductive health decisions, height, weight, age, any physical or mental disability (including gender dysphoria or similar gender-related conditions), medical condition, national origin, ancestry, marital status (including registered domestic partnership, civil union, or any other partnership status), familial status, caregiver status, military or veteran status (including unfavorable discharge from military status), genetic information, genetic testing, predisposing genetic characteristics, caregiver status, order of protection status, work authorization status, citizenship status, immigration status, conviction record or history, arrest record, pre-employment marijuana testing, credit history, salary history, Civil Air Patrol status, status as a victim of domestic violence, assault, or stalking, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state, or federal law (each, a “Protected Characteristic”).

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