[Hiring] Creative Project Manager @Lyft

Role Description

As Creative Project Manager at Manifold, you oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of creative initiatives—from initial concept and design approval through print production and install.

• Own the master workback schedules (internal and client-facing) pulling key dates and deliverables from source materials like briefs, RFI packets, and contracts, and keeping them aligned across teams.
• Work closely with design counterparts to ensure their deadlines and deliverables are clear and achieved.
• Keep all deadlines accurate and current across internal and client workback documents as timelines shift.
• Maintain a centralized tracker and dashboard with deliverables, deadlines, documentation links, and status updates as the single source of truth for project health.
• Drive internal accountability through regular communications, including weekly status reports, and keep timelines current in status meetings.
• Keep the Creative Director and Creative Services Manager informed on overall project health.
• Coordinate and manage all design requests from Account and Production, prioritizing by timeline and urgency.
• Communicate regularly with Account and Production on deliverable status and progress.
• Partner with Producers and Creative to identify upcoming deliverables, proactively flagging risks or blockers to the Creative and Account Director.
• Partner with the Creative Services Manager and Creative Director on resourcing by monitoring team bandwidth and availability.
• Track project scope and hours against plan, flagging potential overages early to the Creative Service Manager.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of project management or creative operations experience in an agency, studio, or in-house creative team.
• A proactive ability to, “follow the crumbs” if answers don’t immediately seem clear.
• Demonstrated strength with detailed record keeping for multiple concurrent projects.
• Strong command of workback schedules and deadlines.
• Confidence coordinating creative work and communicating status clearly across Creative, Account, and Production.
• Sharp organizational judgment, you spot risks and blockers before they become problems.
• A collaborative, low-ego style and calm under shifting priorities.
• The ability to wear a lot of hats and support as each workstream needs.

Requirements

• (Preferred) Industry Experience: Prior work history within a top-tier creative agency or in-house marketing team.
• (Preferred) Hands-on experience managing fabrication and print production within creative projects.

Benefits

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled.
• Mental health benefits.
• Family building benefits.
• Child care and pet benefits.
• 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future.
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off.
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
• Subsidized commuter benefits.
• Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership.