Salary Range: 65000 to 85000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Responsibilities

• Lead resourcing of the integrated production team: assigning production artists, designers, producers, animators and editors to jobs and managing studio workflow
• Have an overall understanding of team workload and deadlines for all key projects and alert the team if a deadline looks to be compromised
• Work with account managers to adjust talent as needed based on shifting deadlines and communicate these changes accordingly 
• Lead weekly status meetings for integrated production teams
• Track and manage the freelance talent database and manage all documentation required
• Maintain and communicate creative department time-off schedules 
• Maintain and communicate creative department hours reports 
• Contribute to the creation of overall creative department process and best practices – co-building processes, documentation, and governance 
• Create and maintain project schedules for any departmental initiatives
• Create connections with the creative team and maintain good relations within the agency (listed last but not last in importance).

Qualifications

• Extremely organized, detail-oriented and capable of self-managing to prioritize projects appropriately in a fast-paced environment
• Thrives in a fluid environment — ability to pivot and problem-solve
• Excellent written and oral communication abilities
• Experience with Project Management platforms (like Jira, Smartsheet or Trello)
• Ability to match team members against projects
• Ability to take complex issues or situations and present them in a simple and easy-to-follow manner
• Superb follow-up with strong attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize, monitor and manage workloads
• Able to identify and solve problems and create opportunities independently and simultaneously 
• Maintain poise and calmness amid challenging circumstances

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in agency environment: resourcing, operations, and/or project management backgrounds are all welcome and encouraged to apply 
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications or a related field or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of the production process in multiple areas preferred (i.e., print, video, audio, photography, web development, out-of-home, trade shows, etc.); print production knowledge strongly preferred
• Proven ability to develop creative or production timelines