Senior Creative Traffic Manager

Mountain View, CA (Hybrid)

$106K/yr – $223K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own the planning and governance of a unified creative portfolio, delivering real time visibility into active and upcoming initiatives, schedules, and resource allocation while guiding risk mitigation and process improvements.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain a unified portfolio view of active and upcoming creative initiatives.
  • Create visibility into project status, priorities, resource allocation, key milestones, dependencies, and delivery risks.
  • Maintain the master schedule and operational cadence for the creative organization.
  • Ensure creative work progresses consistently through established workflow stages and governance checkpoints.
  • Develop dashboards, reporting, and planning mechanisms that provide leadership with real-time visibility into organizational health.
  • Create and maintain the master portfolio schedule and planning cadence for the creative organization.
  • Drive consistent workflow processes, project governance, and status reporting.
  • Surface delivery risks, bottlenecks, and resource constraints to leadership with clear mitigation recommendations.
  • Develop dashboards and reporting that provide visibility into team capacity, utilization, throughput, and delivery health.
  • Monitor utilization and proactively identify opportunities to improve efficiency and throughput.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 3+ years integrated marketing (e.g., digital, relationship, social media, campaign), event management, marketing strategy, business planning, marketing operations, or related work experience OR equivalent experience.
  • Additional or preferred qualifications: - Master's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 2+ years integrated marketing (e.g., digital, relationship, social media, campaign), event management, marketing strategy, business planning, marketing operations, or related experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 5+ years integrated marketing (e.g., digital, relationship, social media, campaign), event management, marketing strategy, business planning, marketing operations, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
  • - Experience managing multiple concurrent projects, stakeholders, and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • - Experience with resource planning, capacity management, workload balancing, and scheduling.
  • - Experience supporting in-house creative teams, marketing organizations, agencies, or design studios.
  • - Knowledge of integrated marketing campaign development and creative production workflows.
  • - Experience with resource management and project management platforms
  • - Experience developing operational reporting and portfolio dashboards.
  • - Ability to influence stakeholders across multiple teams without direct authority.

Preferred

  • - Master's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 2+ years integrated marketing (e.g., digital, relationship, social media, campaign), event management, marketing strategy, business planning, marketing operations, or related experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 5+ years integrated marketing (e.g., digital, relationship, social media, campaign), event management, marketing strategy, business planning, marketing operations, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
  • - Experience managing multiple concurrent projects, stakeholders, and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • - Experience with resource planning, capacity management, workload balancing, and scheduling.
  • - Experience supporting in-house creative teams, marketing organizations, agencies, or design studios.
  • - Knowledge of integrated marketing campaign development and creative production workflows.
  • - Experience with resource management and project management platforms
  • - Experience developing operational reporting and portfolio dashboards.
  • - Ability to influence stakeholders across multiple teams without direct authority.
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Founded in 1975
Redmond, Washington, US
237K employees (11,715 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$106K/yr – $223K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$1M
Last Raise
$1M
Post IPO Equity, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2022
    Post IPO Equity
  • Jan 2020
    Post IPO Equity
  • Sep 1981
    Series Unknown • $1M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.3B
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$5.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.6%
Direct
56.9%
Referral
7.3%
Social
0.4%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~225.8K

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Senior Creative Traffic Manager

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