Creative Project Manager
Our experiential agency client is looking to add a remote Creative Project Manager to their team ASAP:
Start = ASAP
Duration = 3-6 months, approx 30 hours per week
Fully remote, working EST hours
Creative Project Manager
- Primary responsibilities:
- Serves as the day to day, project based, point of contact between the Event Production team and the Creative team
- Act as day-to-day point of contact for delivery related issues
- Manages creative team’s schedules, including scheduling kickoffs, internal reviews and check-ins
- Develops and maintains creative project deliverables, including project plans and timelines
- Works with department leadership to manage the prioritization and throughput of projects
- Reviews and assigns incoming project requests and communicates with Events Producers, as needed, for additional information prior to Design kickoff
- Assesses project risk and scope creep, escalates challenges to Creative Studio Ops Mgr and provides solutions-oriented approach.
- Ensures projects are aligning to budget (escalating blockers)
- Ensures projects are aligning to timelines (escalating blockers)
- Ensures Design receives client feedback in a timely manner
- Owns and maintains Design status documents and Design specific meeting agendas
- Manages weekly status meetings with Creative team
- Acts as a communication link between the GDS Design team, GDS Event Production and Video teams by attending weekly XFN meetings to share project status updates and capture relevant notes / direction
- Acts as additional set of QC eyes, ensuring integrity and quality of creative work
- Contributes to internal process improvement initiatives, especially those involving tools and knowledge management solutions
- Reports into Creative Studio Ops Manager