Senior Manager, Production and Project Management

As the operational leader for creative production, the Senior Manager partners with stakeholders across the university to understand business needs, translate them into actionable project plans, and ensures the creative team is equipped to deliver exceptional work that supports organizational objectives. This position also serves as a steward of brand standards, ensuring consistency and quality across all creative deliverables.

About the role

The Senior Manager, Production & Project Management leads the day-to-day operations of the creative production team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality visual assets that are on brand, on time, and on budget. This role oversees project intake, prioritization, resource allocation, workflow management, and production execution across graphic design, photography, and videography. Success in this role is measured by the team's ability to consistently deliver high-quality creative work that meets brand standards, satisfies stakeholder expectations, and is completed on schedule and within budget.

The Senior Manager demonstrates exceptional leadership by optimizing resources, improving operational processes, balancing competing priorities, and creating an environment where creative professionals can produce their best work while supporting the strategic objectives of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day operations of the creative production team
• Oversee project intake, prioritization, resource allocation, workflow management, and production execution across graphic design, photography, and videography
• Ensure delivery of high-quality visual assets that are on brand, on time, and on budget
• Steward brand standards, ensuring consistency and quality across all creative deliverables
• Manage multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities and deadlines
• Lead, coach, and provide conflict resolution for multidisciplinary creative teams
• Implement and maintain brand standards across creative deliverables
• Optimize resources, improve operational processes, and balance competing priorities
• Support strategic objectives of the organization through creative production

Requirements

• Four years of experience in creative operations, production management, project management, or marketing operations
• Five years of experience leading multidisciplinary creative teams
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities and deadlines
• Experience with graphic design, photography, videography, and creative production workflows
• Experience implementing and maintaining brand standards across creative deliverables
• Experience with project management and creative workflow platforms
• Bachelor's Degree in marketing, communications, graphic design, visual communications, business, project management, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent
• Experience leading creative operations within a corporate marketing or in-house agency environment
• Familiarity with Agile or other project management methodologies
• Experience with digital asset management (DAM) systems and creative collaboration tools
• Exceptional organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills

Skills

• Strategic leadership
• Project and program management
• Creative operations
• Resource planning and capacity management
• Brand management
• Client relationship management
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Process improvement
• Budget management
• Decision making
• Communication and influence
• Problem solving
• Organizational agility
• Change management

Pay

Salary starts at $75,000 annually. A higher starting salary may be considered based on education, relevant experience, skills, internal equity, and available budget resources.

This is a full-time, fiscal year appointment with a 1.0 FTE. Funding for this position is contingent upon the continuation of work and/or funding.