[Hiring] Creative Production Manager @Aquent

Role Description

We are seeking a highly organized and proactive individual to take the helm of creative production for a wide array of marketing initiatives. In this pivotal role, you will be the driving force behind bringing compelling campaigns to life, ensuring that every creative asset not only meets strategic objectives but also resonates deeply with the target audience. Your impact will be immediate and far-reaching, as you orchestrate the creation and delivery of high-quality content that fuels paid media campaigns and extends across various marketing channels.

This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your production prowess to elevate brand presence and maximize content investment, directly contributing to the success and growth of the company's marketing efforts.

What You'll Do

• Manage the end-to-end production of creative assets, working closely with internal teams and external partners.
• Partner with creative and marketing teams, along with external agencies, to understand campaign priorities, creative deliverables, launch timelines, and ongoing asset requirements.
• Translate agency requirements into a comprehensive, forward-looking production calendar.
• Oversee creative production across various advertising platforms, including paid social, programmatic, digital display, and video.
• Coordinate the development of assets by internal design teams, managing specifications, versioning, adaptations, reviews, approvals, and final delivery.
• Proactively anticipate ongoing creative refreshes, testing needs, and campaign updates.
• Manage photography, video, and other original content production, including planning, scheduling, budgeting, vendor relations, and post-production.
• Collaborate with creative leadership to identify content needs aligned with upcoming campaigns and paid media deliverables.
• Strategically plan content production to maximize asset utility across various channels.
• Oversee asset organization, delivery, and repurposing to optimize creative investments.
• Own and maintain integrated production schedules, tracking multiple campaigns, deliverables, and internal resources.
• Serve as the central production liaison between creative teams, marketing, external agencies, and other partners.
• Manage production workflows, approval processes, deadlines, and project status.
• Identify and implement opportunities to enhance production efficiency and establish scalable workflows.

What Success Looks Like

Your success in this role will be defined by the seamless launch of paid media campaigns featuring high-quality, on-brand creative. You will ensure that creative production is proactively planned around agency timelines and deliverable needs, empowering internal designers to focus on creative development while production is expertly managed.

Your efforts will result in content investments yielding versatile assets that can be leveraged across multiple marketing channels, and production workflows that are consistently efficient, organized, and scalable.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in creative production, digital advertising production, or integrated campaign production.
• Strong understanding of paid media creative formats, specifications, versioning, and delivery requirements.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with paid media agencies and managing creative production across multiple digital platforms.
• Proven experience coordinating internal design teams, photography and video production, and external production partners.
• Ability to develop comprehensive production schedules, anticipate content needs, and manage multiple competing deadlines.
• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite and Trello, as well as project management tools such as Asana, Workfront, or Monday.com.
• Exceptional organizational skills, strong communication abilities, meticulous attention to detail, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Other Requirements

• This is a full-time contract role.