[Hiring] Program Manager @Ursus

Role Description

This team is a global in-house agency that drives the creative vision for our brands and how they are perceived in the world. We develop the vision for next-generation creative advertising, consumer brand content, and experiences for our apps and our hardware products.

Our vision is fearless creativity that shapes the future of connection. With some of the industry’s best talent on our team, we create beautiful work that has a purpose. And with an audience of almost five billion across some of the world’s biggest brands, we create brave ideas that demonstrate the full creative potential of our platforms, including industry-leading, envy-inducing creative experiences that push the boundaries of traditional advertising.

We believe in attracting and nurturing world-class talent with a focus on diversity, community, and career development. We have developed best-in-class collaboration models with agencies and our cross-company creative network to ensure a consistent and strong creative narrative for work that reaches an audience across the globe due to the scale of our products.

Program Managers are a team of strategic creative leaders who work closely with marketers and product teams to plan and manage creative projects. Program Managers forecast work, ensure it is strategically aligned with marketing goals, mitigate issues, and collaborate with cross-functional counterparts.

Responsibilities

• Help prioritize projects with Marketing and Product Leadership based on impact, company objectives, and resources.
• Influence and understand marketing creative plans, as it specifically relates to in-product experiences, for our family of brands.
• Proactively identify important problems for marketing and/or advertising creative plans.
• Take a broad perspective to problems and identify creative solutions.
• Effectively lobby and win support for in-product marketing experiences, creative innovation, and new initiatives.
• Plan resource needs, and coordinate resources across multiple projects.
• Create strong partnerships with Marketers and Product teams including Product Design and Product Management.
• Foster trusted relationships with creative and production partners.
• Understand cross-functional partnerships and form relationships with Insights/Analytics, Research, and Media leads.
• Manage creative projects to ensure successful delivery of various marketing efforts.
• Be the lead point of contact for agencies for in-product marketing work.
• Prioritize competing needs with good reasoning and creative solutions.
• Coordinate resources across multiple projects.
• Take a broad perspective to problems and identify strategic and creative solutions.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree or 10+ years experience working in a creative agency, production studio, and/or digital product marketing company.
• Experience working with Marketers and Product teams.
• Cross-functional collaboration experience with media, research/planning, and analytics disciplines.
• Experience managing marketing and/or product projects, including the creative development and alignment with strategy.
• Experience in working on or overseeing campaigns that include live action, digital, and animation.
• Experience in setting priorities, problem-solving, and multitasking.

Benefits

• Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate or annual salary only, unless otherwise stated.
• In addition to base compensation, full-time roles are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Commuter, and 401K benefits with company matching.

Fair Chance Policy

Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.