How many projects do you typically manage concurrently?
The flow of projects and the workload for creative project managers varies depending on the industry and the company involved. Interviewers ask this question to identify candidates that they feel will be successful in managing the work required for their open position.
Remember to provide a sense of the scale of the concurrent projects you normally have in flight at a given time. For example, you might describe how long the projects you manage take to complete on average, or how many teams you usually work with at one time.
"I work for an advertising agency and the scope of our client engagements varies. Some campaigns only require a few deliverables, and others require a series of omnichannel marketing materials that require work from several teams over the course of several months. I usually work on one or two larger projects at a time while overseeing a flow of 5 or so smaller projects. I am comfortable juggling several things at once and working with more than one team at a time."
