Creative Project Manager

<h3>Accountabilities</h3><li>Manage project intake, scoping, and kickoff in collaboration with account teams and creative leads, ensuring briefs, deliverables, objectives, and deadlines are clearly defined.</li><li>Develop and maintain comprehensive project schedules across print, digital, content, video, and animation workstreams, coordinating activities from initial concept through final delivery.</li><li>Establish and manage internal and client meeting schedules, coordinating with logistics teams and relevant internal contributors to maintain alignment and momentum.</li><li>Oversee the flow of creative content and assets between account management, designers, writers, video producers, digital teams, clients, and external partners, ensuring effective reviews, approvals, routing, and version control.</li><li>Maintain accurate project records within the designated project management platform, providing clear visibility into project status, priorities, timelines, resource capacity, and potential risks.</li><li>Coordinate cross-functional handoffs for estimation, production, fulfillment, and onsite execution to ensure continuity and accountability throughout the project lifecycle.</li><li>Manage project budgets by preparing estimates with team leads, tracking hours and material costs against scope, processing invoices, and identifying scope changes or budget risks early.</li><li>Plan and allocate resources in collaboration with creative discipline leads, balancing workloads and ensuring projects have the appropriate time, materials, and expertise.</li><li>Coordinate print production activities, including vendor schedules, proof reviews, and press checks, ensuring deliverables meet quality standards and deadlines.</li><li>Connect creative development with live event production by coordinating staging, scenic elements, audiovisual requirements, screen content, signage, and show flow.</li><li>Attend assigned events onsite to manage creative deliverables, coordinate last-minute changes to scripts and content, and ensure smooth execution of creative requirements.</li><li>Participate in brainstorming sessions and content development, helping shape program narratives, session concepts, and creative strategies while translating ideas into actionable plans.</li><li>Develop, document, and continuously improve workflows, templates, and project management systems to increase efficiency, consistency, and scalability.</li><li>Maintain open, proactive communication with stakeholders, raising concerns early, adapting to changing priorities, and fostering a positive, collaborative working environment.</li><h2>Requirements:</h2><li>At least two years of project management experience, ideally within a creative agency, production environment, or multidisciplinary creative team.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects across print, digital, video, and content development, maintaining control of timelines, deliverables, and dependencies.</li><li>Experience using Asana or a comparable project management platform, with the discipline to maintain accurate schedules, project statuses, and resource information.</li><li>Proven ability to build workflows from the ground up, document processes, introduce practical systems, and encourage consistent adoption across teams.</li><li>Understanding of how creative development connects with onsite production, including familiarity with staging, audiovisual equipment, scenic design, signage, and live event execution.</li><li>Experience contributing to content development, brainstorming, and creative ideation, with the ability to help shape concepts as well as manage their delivery.</li><li>Strong budget management skills, including cost estimation, time and material tracking, invoice processing, and monitoring project performance against agreed scope.</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships with clients, internal stakeholders, creative teams, and external vendors.</li><li>Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage shifting deadlines, competing demands, and unexpected changes without compromising quality.</li><li>Exceptional attention to detail, accuracy, and follow-through across project documentation, creative assets, budgets, and production requirements.</li><li>Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat.</li><li>A proactive, adaptable, and solutions-oriented mindset, with the ability to remain composed and professional under pressure.</li><li>A collaborative approach that values creative expertise, encourages open communication, and supports shared accountability.</li><li>
<strong>Preferred:</strong>Experience in the events industry, particularly corporate events, incentive programs, event production, or experiential marketing.</li><li>
<strong>Preferred:</strong>Working knowledge of print production specifications, processes, and press check terminology.</li><li>Willingness and ability to travel onsite for assigned events while working remotely for day-to-day project coordination.</li><h2>Benefits:</h2><li>
<strong>Competitive annual salary:</strong>$72,000–$92,000, depending on experience and qualifications.</li><li>
<strong>Remote work flexibility:</strong>Work remotely from within the United States, with onsite travel required for assigned events.</li><li>
<strong>Collaborative culture:</strong>Join a people-focused, multidisciplinary team that values creativity, inclusion, accountability, and positive working relationships.</li><li>
<strong>Creative variety:</strong>Work across print, digital, video, animation, content development, and live event experiences.</li><li>
<strong>End-to-end project ownership:</strong>Gain exposure to the complete creative delivery process, from initial concept and planning through production and onsite execution.</li><li>
<strong>Professional growth:</strong>Develop project management, budgeting, production coordination, and creative operations expertise.</li><li>
<strong>Process improvement opportunities:</strong>Help build and refine workflows, templates, and systems that support team efficiency and organizational growth.</li><li>
<strong>Meaningful impact:</strong>Contribute directly to the delivery of engaging experiences while helping creative teams turn ideas into successful outcomes.</li>