Creative Project Manager

Role Summary 

The Project Manager will track progress and manage the delivery of all assets from third party productions. This includes maintaining the schedules, understand artwork and AV asset types for both print and AV materials following up on outstanding deliverables, and organizing assets for delivery. The role will coordinate with third-party vendors on work related to the editing and versioning of assets, ensuring the highest quality standards, distributing assets for Public Relations, Marketing, and International Localization needs. You will receive, understand, and decode briefs and needs for audiovisual productions. Go beyond requests. Inquire and dig deeper on the project's needs, ensure major milestones are met while navigating comfortably in email communication between strategic, creative, media, production, and implementation teams. 

You need to work closely with editors, graphic and sound designers to ensure that the final product is executed flawlessly, displaying a great ability to work under tight deadlines and adjust to last-minute changes with ease. 

Key responsibilities 

• Build account strategy to proactively identify and meet your customers’ needs with creative work, developing a collaborative creative partnership and deep familiarity with their businesses along the way. 

• Be able to understand artwork and AV asset types for both print and AV materials. 

• Be able to perform as advisory and solutions provider to client to help them develop solutions to issues or meet halfway. 

• Collaborate with professionals to ensure creative and production work meets both the needs of our customers and our exceptional bar for creative quality - including final review and sign-off. 

• Guide, discuss and clarify client needs into concise production briefs and processes, and present output and discuss feedback with customers. 

• Brief, staff and manage the team as a helpful value-adding partner. 

• Continuously learn, develop, and grow yourself and others. 

• Act as main point of contact for internal and external team members and stakeholders, including customers, from project kick-off through execution. 

•  Influence internal and external stakeholders to ensure dependencies are met, risks/issues are addressed, and project milestones are achieved. 

• Work with project team to optimize application of principles, methodologies and tools of project management and quality service delivery. 

• Results and efficiency focused with high level of details to ensure accurate delivery of projects. 

• Quality control (QC) to ensure client requests are matched. Specific focus to be placed on edit, colour and adaptations designs versions are correct and nothing has been accidentally left out. 

Key Skills/Experience 

• Demonstrate strong stakeholder management and customer services, to encourage high levels of customer satisfaction and repeat business. 

• Use of different project management tools such as Airtable and Monday. 

• Use of different edit tools such as Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Monotype & Annotation. 

• Knowledge / experience in tools for the control and organization of files such as Aspera Connect, Google Chrome, PAL & VANDAM. 

• Strong proven project management skills & experience. 

• Have a sound working knowledge of all the various roles, functions, capabilities, equipment, and applications across multiple post-production streams and disciplines. 

• Stay abreast of industry / creative developments in the production of content and ensure this knowledge is cascaded to teams. 

• The artwork part will help GPD and Asset ops scopes as those are three main still/print visual artwork day in and out.  

• AV will be crucial for PTC and part of PTC also is to churn out artwork stills other than the AV asset 

• Have great interpersonal and justification skills. 

• Be proactive, self-motivated and enjoy working as part of team. 

• Be organized and methodical in their approach to work. 

• Motivate and lead team with enthusiasm. 

• Delegate responsibility effectively and know when to manage ‘up’ as well as ‘across’ and ‘down’. 

• Have technical competence and understanding of Adobe suite functions will be advantageous.   

• Entrepreneur, Hands on, Dynamic, able to focus and prioritize tasks. 

• Team player, open to learn and try new things. 

Experience and Eduacation: 

• 4-6 years’ experience of managing integrated campaigns in a production agency, with good knowledge of managing production of video, adaptation design and related. 

• English Level: Advanced in Writing, Listening and Speaking is a must. The position will be working with non-Spanish speaking teams 90% of the time. 

• Bachelor’s Degree in media, design or similar. 

What do we offer? 

• Monthly Base Salary: $35,000.00 MX  

• Above Law Benefits since day one. 

• Remote work system – 100% Home Office