Director, Communications - Marketing Production

Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid)

$155K/yr – $247K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive end-to-end production and project management for Cedars-Sinai's Creative Studio in healthcare; own budgets, vendor ecosystem, and cross-functional delivery.

  • Own end-to-end production and project management across campaigns, digital, and content.
  • Must-have: Strong program management experience in complex healthcare or regulated environments.
  • Standout: Budget ownership, vendor management, and cross-functional leadership.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • The Director of Communications will lead the Marketing Production function for the ambitious and nimble Creative Studio. Oversee end-to-end production and project management across a diversity of projects including multi-channel campaigns, digital experiences, design systems, brand identity, content, and patient-facing communications.
  • Manage and mentor a team of producers with specialized skill sets (campaign, digital, content, experiential, design), cultivating a culture of craft, inclusivity, and continuous improvement.
  • Own and refine the studio’s project operating model—from intake and briefing through ideation, production, QA, delivery, and measurement—to ensure speed, quality, and efficiency in a complex healthcare environment.
  • Partner closely with Creative, Strategy, Marketing, and cross-functional leaders to align production plans with brand strategy, performance goals, compliance requirements, and the needs of the communities we serve.
  • Build, implement, and continuously optimize standardized processes, toolkits, and governance across project intake, scoping, resourcing, approvals, versioning, and delivery across creative projects.
  • Lead resource management across internal and external talent: forecast demand, plan resources, manage capacity and utilization, and make data-informed tradeoffs to meet timelines and quality standards.
  • Own the Creative Studio budget and financial operations: annual planning, project-level budgeting, cost controls, vendor negotiations, reconciliations, and reporting on budget health and ROI.
  • Establish a best-in-class vendor ecosystem—production companies, post houses, developers, UX research partners, photographers/filmmakers, and specialty shops—managing SOWs, SLAs, performance, and preferred partner rosters.
  • Drive operational visibility and accountability: establish dashboards for pipeline, timelines, risks, costs, and resource utilization; communicate status and tradeoffs to leadership with clarity and data.
  • Coach and develop producers at all levels through clear role definitions, constructive feedback, and growth plans; hire and onboard new talent to elevate capabilities across the team.
  • Pilot new tools and methodologies (e.g., agile/hybrid workflows, asset management, automation, gen-AI assistive tools where appropriate) that improve speed-to-market, quality, and cost efficiency.
  • Act as a connective leader and problem-solver—removing roadblocks, resolving conflicts, and enabling bold, breakthrough creative work that delivers measurable impact for our health system and the communities we serve.

Benefits

  • health care
  • paid time off
  • 403(B)
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Cedars-Sinai

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Since its beginning in 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the healthcare needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, continually setting new standards for quality and innovation in patient care, research, teaching and community service.Today, Cedars-Sinai is widely known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients.Cedars-Sinai receives consistent recognition for our excellence. Our awards include; being named one of America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, receiving the National Research Corporation’s Consumer Choice Award 19 years in a row for providing the highest-quality medical care in Los Angeles, achieving the longest-running Magnet designation for nursing excellence in California, and being recognized as The Advisory Board Company’s 2017 Workplace of the Year, an award Cedars-Sinai has won three years in a row. This annual award recognizes hospitals and health systems nationwide that have outstanding levels of employee engagement.Cedars-Sinai is a leader in the clinical care and research of heart disease, cancer and brain disorders, among other areas. Pioneering research achievements include using cardiac stem cells to repair damaged hearts, developing minimally invasive surgical techniques and discovering new types of drugs to target cancer more precisely.Cedars-Sinai also impacts the future of healthcare through education programs that encompass everything from highly competitive medical residency and fellowship programs to a biomedical science and translational medicine PhD program, advanced training for nurses and educational opportunities for allied health professionals. Most notably, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a longstanding commitment to strengthening the Los Angeles community through wide-ranging programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.

Founded in 1902
Los Angeles, California, USA
16K employees (200 in marketing)
77% recommend to a friend
82% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
462.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$15.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
16.5%
Direct
52.1%
Referral
29%
Social
1.1%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~16.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
140 (1% of company)

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