Creative & Studio Project Manager – On-site

The Project Manager is responsible for planning, managing, and optimizing the production of creative assets across WeatherTech’s in‑house creative department and production studio. The role ensures that all deliverables are properly scoped, resourced, scheduled and executed to meet the needs of multiple internal and external partners.

This person serves as the operational backbone of a busy creative organization —balancing priorities, working with Creative and Studio managers to optimize team capacity, and ensuring projects move from request to delivery with clarity, predictability and efficiency.

This is an on-site position in our Bolingbrook, IL facility.

Responsibilities

• Review incoming requests for completeness, accuracy and alignment with business goals

• Create, maintain and optimize the production schedule for design, copy, photography, video and post‑production
• Build and manage timelines with clear milestones, handoff points and sequencing across creative, studio and cross‑functional teams

• Track progress against weekly and monthly production targets, ensuring the team stays on pace

• Develop and maintain dashboards or reports that track creative and production output across all teams
• Identify workflow bottlenecks, flag risks and implement solutions to keep deliverables moving efficiently

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in creative production management, agency operations or studio management
• PMP certification required
• Strong understanding of marketing workflows, creative briefs and campaign development
• Experience managing cross‑functional creative teams and high‑volume production environments
• Excellent organizational, communication and problem‑solving skills
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities and maintain calm under pressure
• Familiarity with project management tools such as Asana, Jira, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project and Gantt-chart based planning
• Understanding of photography, video production and post‑production processes
• Experience supporting new product launches a plus
• Must be authorized to work in the United States

Why you’ll love working at WeatherTech

WeatherTech Direct LLC is proud to offer employees a competitive salary and benefits package, opportunities for internal promotions and skill development, and clean and safe workspace. Employees are offered an array of perks including:

• Outstanding BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois medical plans; as well as dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, and company-paid life insurance
• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• Paid vacation, holidays, and personal time