Associate Project Manager, Brand Guidelines & Governance

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$69K/yr – $75K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end governance and publication workflow for brand guidelines across multi-phase creative projects, aligning internal teams and IOC partners to tight review cycles and asset updates.

  • Publication and governance: drive calendars, milestones, and tracking across multiple guideline sets.
  • Quality and versions: QC design files, maintain style guardrails, archive old assets and publish addendums.
  • Cross-functional alignment: manage intake sessions, feedback, and sign-offs to hit publication deadlines.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Create and manage publication calendar, workback schedules, project phases, and milestones delivery dates
  • Balance management of multiple sets of guidelines simultaneously
  • Oversee intake sessions, check-ins, and feedback cycles; distribute notes, next steps, and action items to ensure alignment across project teams
  • Utilize project management systems to track statuses, document progress, and flag blockers and risks
  • QC files for accuracy prior to routing for reviews and approval
  • Drive review cycles by routing guideline documents and drafts to internal stakeholders and IOC partners, ensuring review timelines are honored, interpreting and consolidating notes, and facilitating in-person feedback sessions when further discussion is needed
  • Coordinate updates and addendums to guidelines as new assets become available for publication
  • Own file management ensuring outdated versions are properly archived

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
  • Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience in creative project or traffic management, either within an in-house creative team or agency setting; brand governance focus is a plus
  • Knowledgeable in developing brand governance frameworks, guidelines, and style guides
  • Familiar with project management methodologies and tools such as Smartsheet or similar platforms
  • Skilled in stakeholder management across cross-functional and external partners — setting timelines, identifying dependencies, and driving work forward to meet deadlines
  • Proven ability to organize and manage multiple multi-phase projects simultaneously, balancing varying levels of complexity and priority
  • Experience in or passion for branding in global sporting events is highly desirable
  • Ability to work on-site in Los Angeles, CA
  • Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
  • Expectations: Ability to foster trusting relationships with teammates, cross-functional partners, and external stakeholders
  • Expectations: Comfortable navigating ambiguity and adapting priorities as project needs evolve
  • Expectations: Self-directed and proactive in surfacing blockers, communicating progress, and keeping stakeholders aligned
  • Expectations: Excellent verbal and written communication across all levels of organizational leadership and external audiences
  • Expectations: Naturally organized with a systematic approach to structuring workflows and managing project documentation
  • Expectations: Strong design literacy, able to understand and interpret brand guidelines when performing QC and governance reviews
  • Expectations: Keen attention to detail, capable of reviewing and proofreading design files for accuracy and consistency and flagging necessary revisions
  • Expectations: Passion for design, culture and the power of storytelling at a global scale

Preferred

  • Experience in or passion for branding in global sporting events is highly desirable

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