Wunderkind

Creative Operations Manager, Designer

Wunderkind

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $80,000 - $95,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Switching

About the role

  • 12-month maternity cover contract combining project management and hands-on design.
  • Manage the intake, prioritization, and delivery of creative requests using Asana.
  • Review briefs to ensure clarity, completeness, and strategic alignment.
  • Create timelines, assign tasks, and monitor progress to keep projects on track.
  • Communicate with stakeholders to manage expectations and provide regular updates.
  • Balance resources and workloads across the design team.
  • Design and adapt assets across digital, content, events, and internal channels.
  • Use Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) for day-to-day creative production.
  • Ensure outputs are high-quality, on-brand, and aligned with business objectives.
  • Support designers by producing work directly when capacity is stretched.
  • Maintain consistency across all creative touchpoints.

Requirements

  • Proven project management experience, ideally within a marketing or creative team.
  • Strong technical skills in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills; you bring teams together and move work forward with confidence.
  • Strong working knowledge of creative workflows (design, copy, photo, print production, etc.).
  • Comfort managing up, anticipating needs, and keeping stakeholders on track.
  • Proficiency in project management tools (Asana strongly preferred).
  • Ability to review and critique creative briefs and outputs with confidence
  • A proactive, collaborative mindset—you’re comfortable switching between managing and designing.