Creative Project Manager

The Creative Project Manager partners closely with designers, marketers, producers, and cross-functional stakeholders to drive integrated creative projects from concept through execution. This role is responsible for bringing structure to a fast-paced, evolving environment-managing timelines, workflows, creative briefs, resources, approvals, and communications to ensure projects are delivered on time and at the highest quality.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, proactive, and thrives in ambiguity. They are comfortable shifting priorities, balancing multiple workstreams, and adapting quickly as business needs evolve. Equally important, they are curious about new technologies, embrace AI-powered tools and changing workflows, and continuously seek opportunities to improve creative operations.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management & Creative Operations

• Lead end-to-end project management for integrated marketing campaigns, product launches, digital initiatives, and creative productions.
• Develop detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and resource allocations while ensuring projects remain on schedule.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects across digital, social, CRM, e-commerce, retail, print, packaging, and video.
• Monitor project health, proactively identify risks and bottlenecks, and recommend solutions before issues impact delivery.
• Coordinate cross-functional approvals and ensure projects move efficiently through creative, legal, regulatory, and marketing review processes.
• Maintain project management systems (Wrike or similar), ensuring project data, timelines, milestones, and resources remain accurate and up to date.
• Cross-Functional Partnership
• Partner closely with Creative, Brand Marketing, Digital, E-commerce, Social, Product Development, Medical, and Global teams to successfully execute integrated campaigns.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between internal stakeholders, creative teams, external agencies, and production partners.
• Facilitate project kickoffs, status meetings, creative reviews, and stakeholder communications.
• Build strong relationships across teams while aligning priorities and managing competing business needs.

Creative Briefing & Workflow Management

• Lead the development and/or facilitation of creative briefs by partnering with marketing stakeholders to define objectives, deliverables, target audiences, timelines, and success metrics.
• Standardize briefing processes and templates to improve consistency and efficiency.
• Translate business needs into actionable creative projects while ensuring teams have the information needed for successful execution.
• Continuously evaluate and improve creative workflows, documentation, and operational processes.

Asset & Content Management

• Coordinate creative deliverables across campaigns, ensuring assets are delivered accurately and on time.
• Manage asset organization, metadata, file naming conventions, and uploads within digital asset management systems.
• Maintain creative documentation, templates, SOPs, and shared resources to support team collaboration.
• Conduct quality assurance reviews to ensure deliverables meet brand, technical, and regulatory standards.
• Reporting & Operational Excellence
• Track project status, team capacity, resource utilization, budgets, and key operational metrics.
• Support forecasting and budget tracking for creative production and operational initiatives.
• Prepare executive-ready reporting, presentations, meeting agendas, and project updates.
• Ensure consistency, accuracy, and attention to detail across all project documentation and communications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Project Management, or a related field.
• 5-7 years of experience managing creative, marketing, or integrated projects within an agency or fast-paced in-house creative organization.
• Experience supporting cross-functional creative teams in beauty, luxury, fashion, retail, consumer goods, or lifestyle brands preferred.
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously while balancing changing priorities.
• Experience working with creative teams, designers, copywriters, producers, and marketing stakeholders.
• Technical Skills
• Advanced experience with Wrike, Asana, Monday.com, Workfront, Smartsheet, or similar project management platforms.
• Strong Microsoft Office and Google Workspace skills, including Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems preferred.
• Familiarity with creative production workflows across digital, print, video, and social media.
• Comfortable learning and adopting AI-powered productivity and creative tools as workflows continue to evolve.

What We're Looking For

• The ideal candidate is a highly organized, adaptable project manager who enjoys bringing clarity to complexity and helping creative teams do their best work.
• Success in this role requires someone who:
• Thrives in environments with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and evolving business needs.
• Is proactive, resourceful, and consistently looks around corners to anticipate challenges before they arise.
• Has exceptional organizational skills and can manage multiple high-priority projects simultaneously.
• Is naturally curious and excited by emerging technologies, AI, and new ways of working.
• Adapts quickly as tools, workflows, software, and processes evolve.
• Brings structure without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Communicates confidently with stakeholders at all levels and builds trust across cross-functional teams.
• Maintains exceptional attention to detail while never losing sight of the bigger picture.
• Stays calm under pressure and remains flexible in a fast-moving, high-volume environment.
• Demonstrates a collaborative, positive attitude with a strong customer-service mindset and willingness to jump in wherever needed.

The target hiring compensation for this role is $55-60/hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

Additional benefits offered may include: medical health insurance and dental insurance, life insurance, and eligibility to participate in 401k plan with company match (if applicable).

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

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