Creative Project Manager

Overview

Our well known experiential agency client is looking for a Creative Project Manager to support some upcoming big tech conferences.

40hrs/week

Fully remote

Start date: ASAP (estimated start the week of 1/26)

End date: mid March with possible extension

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 Design team, 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

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