Creative Services Project Manager Job at Alexander Wang LLC in New York

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in creative subject or industry field, including at least 2-3 years project management experience within creative services, advertising agency side, or in house, within a project management or creative services team
• Superior organizational skills, spanning project management, resource allocation and traffic control
• Superior ability to manage multiple projects at one time
• Personable, working effectively with a variety of different people
• Strong negotiator
• Ability to find ways to increase productivity
• Ability to work across a variety of production processes and aware of technological developments
• Knowledgeable about history and trends in art and design
• Flexible and able to adapt quickly to the demands of challenging and unusual projects
• Experience establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them
• High-level of collaboration, communication and teamwork

Responsibilities

• Reporting into the Head of Creative services, the project manager will manage the production and delivery of any and all creative services departmental requests, timelines and deliverables
• The role will project manage the process of turning creative ideas into tangible outputs across a variety of media
• The role will be responsible for the allocation of creative services team resources across multiple, often complex, projects at any one time
• They will ensure that work is delivered on time, to the required level of quality, alongside the production team delivering within budget
• Scoping out and determining the feasibility of producing final creative work in a variety of media and timelines
• Sourcing tools, producing and updating cross departmental teams on needs for work to be executed
• Ensuring the correct licensing of artistic material across all formats and locations within agreed timings
• Maintaining quality standards across the production of all creative work
• Planning and managing timing schedules that fit the needs of the internal teams brief and requirements
• Reporting progress of all work and any anticipated deviation from planned timings
• Supporting Head of Creative services in allocating and managing deliverables
• Holding regular project management meetings, holding direct reports accountable for keeping deadlines, while influencing other stakeholders to support successful outcomes
• Improving the Creative Workflow process; efficient streamlining whilst maintaining the highest quality output
• Trafficking/ tracking jobs, from beginning to end, by resource, so productivity and profitability can be reviewed and developed
• Communicating and liaising between Creative Services and other departments
• Maintaining the Digital Assets, creating and maintaining the online photo library and naming conventions
• Managing all jobs for release to third parties
• Co-managing the post-production process, with a Producer
• Stay current with the latest industry, style, creative tools and trends

Benefits

• In compliance with the New York City salary transparency requirements, the potential salary for this position is from $110,000 to $120,000, which represents a range commensurate with experience, knowledge, and skills required