Serving as the liaison between the creative team and internal stakeholders, partnering closely with marketing, creative, and cross-functional team members to manage the project pipeline from planning to delivery.
Working collaboratively with creative leadership to build effective processes that help the team run smoothly and efficiently, delivering the best creative work possible.
Driving project prioritization, scoping, and resource allocation for a team of designers, design managers, copywriters, motion designers, and video editors.
Managing relationships with external resources and freelance talent, reviewing and negotiating vendor contracts and agreements as required.
Developing and managing complex project timelines, workloads, and project objectives, ensuring projects are being delivered on-time and on-brief.
Communicating status updates, coordinating stakeholder reviews, and fielding feedback from stakeholders.
Identifying and implementing project management technologies that improve workflow efficiency.
Providing transparency and predictability of initiatives to leadership and project teams.
Identifying and mitigating risks, proactively surfacing potential issues, and unblocking obstacles for teams.
Providing thought leadership on creative process improvements.
Requirements
5+ years of creative operations or project management experience in creative services, advertising, or marketing preferably within an in-house creative organization.
Demonstrated proficiency in owning the end-to-end project management pipeline for a small, efficient and highly collaborative creative organization with a global reach.
Ability and willingness to build new and effective processes, while continually optimizing them.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to influence stakeholders, push back when needed, resolve conflict and build consensus while dealing with ambiguity.
Strong listener who can synthesize information and creative feedback from stakeholders
Ability to drive difficult conversations regarding resources and timelines