Senior Creative Project Manager

Location: Los Angeles, California • Job Type: Contract • Compensation Range: $60 - 65 per hour

About the role

Our client, a leading retail organization, is seeking a Senior Creative Project Manager to manage end-to-end workflows for full-funnel creative campaigns, from platform and concept development through final execution. In this role, you'll partner closely with creative account management, creative teams, and integrated production to keep projects moving, align resources, and resolve challenges. You'll oversee a high volume of initiatives across multiple business segments, including complex, high-visibility campaigns requiring close collaboration with senior leadership. The ideal candidate combines strong creative project management experience with proactive communication, sound judgment, and the ability to bring structure to evolving priorities.

Responsibilities

• Project Intake & Resourcing: Partner with creative account management to clarify project needs, coordinate resource assignments, and open projects in Workfront.
• Timeline Development: Build detailed project schedules with input from account, creative, and production teams, aligning stakeholders on milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• End-to-End Project Ownership: Drive projects from intake through completion, serving as the central point of contact for status, next steps, and outstanding needs.
• Creative Team Support: Work closely with creative leads throughout development, ensuring teams have the information, assets, and support needed to deliver strong work.
• Workflow Management: Maintain accurate schedules, milestones, and project documentation in Workfront as work progresses.
• Status Meetings & Communication: Lead internal status meetings and share clear updates on weekly priorities, deadlines, timeline shifts, and changes in scope or deliverables.
• Risk Identification & Resolution: Anticipate scheduling conflicts, resource constraints, and other challenges. Recommend practical solutions and escalate issues when needed.
• Reviews & Approvals: Coordinate with account management and operations partners to route work through appropriate reviewers, including legal, trademark, and corporate communications.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Keep stakeholders aligned across multiple workstreams and communicate effectively with partners and leadership at all levels.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 4-5 years of project management experience within an advertising agency or in-house creative environment.
• Experience managing a high volume of creative projects, from branding and conceptual development through tactical execution.
• Ability to oversee complex campaigns and balance competing priorities across multiple business segments.
• Strong understanding of creative development and production workflows.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with Workfront or similar project management software preferred.

Skills

• Ownership & Accountability: Take responsibility for moving projects forward from intake to completion, keeping commitments and following through.
• Proactive Communication: Bring clarity and urgency to meetings, written updates, and day-to-day collaboration.
• Collaborative Leadership: Guide project teams and hold partners accountable while respecting creative decision-making responsibilities.
• Solutions-Oriented Thinking: Address challenges calmly, identify options, and help teams maintain momentum.
• Relationship Building: Establish trust with creative teams, cross-functional partners, and senior leadership.
• Negotiation & Judgment: Balance timelines, deliverables, resources, and feedback to create realistic paths to completion.
• Comfort with Ambiguity: Work independently, gather missing information, and bring structure to initiatives with evolving requirements and limited initial direction.

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings
• Short-term disability
• 401K plan (all benefits based on eligibility)

Pay

Compensation range: $60 - $65 per hour. Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.