Senior Manager, Creative

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$100K/yr – $115K/yrSenior Level7+ years expOther

Posted 8 days ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end planning and delivery of high-priority creative initiatives, coordinating cross-functional teams and scalable production workflows to align with brand and campaign objectives.

  • Lead intake, timelines, approvals, and stakeholder updates.
  • Partner with Strategy, Design, and Operations to optimize processes.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead high-priority creative initiatives from intake through final delivery, managing project planning, timelines, approvals, stakeholder communication, and execution in partnership with the Creative Strategy, Design, and Creative Operations.
  • Drive scalable creative production across priority campaigns and daily work initiatives, ensuring efficient execution across channels and stakeholders.
  • Apply a brand-centric lens to ensure creative solutions align with campaign objectives and maintain consistency across all fan-facing touchpoints.
  • Partner with Creative Strategy and Marketing requestors to translate insights, positioning, campaign objectives, and business priorities into actionable briefs and execution timelines.
  • Work closely with marketing, content, social, and production teams to translate needs into effective design and creative solutions.
  • For key initiatives, serve as the central point of coordination for designers, freelancers, production partners, and cross-functional stakeholders throughout the creative process.
  • Partner closely with Creative Operations to improve and manage creative intake, prioritization, and project planning, and delivery workflows while championing best practices in Asana across the Creative team.
  • Identify opportunities to enhance creative workflows, adopt emerging tools, and implement scalable processes that improve team efficiency and creative output.
  • Leverage Adobe Creative Suite to support creative production through file preparation, technical reviews, and final production-ready deliverables as needed.
  • Support additional department initiatives and special projects, as assigned.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree required
  • 7+ years of experience required in creative project management, integrated marketing, creative operations, or an agency/in-house creative environment
  • Advanced proficiency with Asana and creative project management workflows.
  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) with the ability to modify working files and support production tasks and technical review.
  • Strong understanding of creative production workflows and channel specifications for creative work across social, digital, email, web, OOH, and print.
  • Exceptional communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and organizational skills, with proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, drive alignment, and maintain quality in fast-paced environments.
  • Experience identifying and implementing workflow improvements, creative technologies, and AI-enabled tools that enhance team efficiency.
  • Experience managing integrated creative work from intake through production and delivery.
  • Highly collaborative, proactive, and solutions-oriented, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and influence cross-functional teams.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team environment.

Preferred

  • Experience in professional sports, entertainment, media, or consumer brand experience preferred.
  • Experience working and managing process with internal creative teams, freelancers, and external production partners.
  • Knowledge of soccer or sports

Benefits

  • comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • a $500 wellness reimbursement
  • generous Holiday and PTO schedule to promote work-life balance
  • on-the-job training, feedback, and ongoing educational opportunities
  • four (4) day in-office schedule, with the flexibility to work remotely one (1) day each week
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