Project Manager, Creative Operations
Ursa Major is looking for a mid-level Project Manager to support our marketing & creative teams. This person will help bring key marketing initiatives to life by tracking project timelines, and facilitating and optimizing an efficient workflow.
- This role will work closely with our creative teams and marketing channel leaders. To thrive in this role, you should have a thorough understanding of internal creative functions (design, copy, photo, and video) and marketing channels (social, email, website). You should be comfortable owning your workstream independently, with a high level of self-discipline and initiative, while still collaborating closely with a supportive and highly engaged team. You can untangle timelines in your sleep, turn ideas into action items, and manage people & resources to get any project across the finish line.
- *This role is considered remote. We are headquartered in VT, with team members all over. Reports to Editorial Director.
- What Youâll Do:
- Manage and track creative projects from ideation to execution, including marketing emails, website needs, campaigns, brand initiatives, product launches, photo/video production timelines (pre- through post-production), and miscellaneous creative requests.
- Support the Brand Marketing team in monitoring and tracking against our master marketing calendar.
- Translate all major marketing and PR initiatives into clear timelines and action items for creative teams, and ensure projects are tracking against deadlines.
- Vet incoming creative briefs to ensure they are clear, complete, and actionableâtranslating marketing goals into the right deliverables and resourcing across copy, design, and production.
- Track rounds of feedback and facilitate a smooth creative approval process.
- Audit and organize all creative assets, ensuring easy access and long-term usability.
- Standardize and improve the creative briefing process to optimize cross-functional efficiency and clarity.
- Communicate a clear picture of project statuses to all stakeholders on a regular basis.
- Serve as the operational and logistical lead for vendor partnershipsâincluding event vendorsâensuring timely asset delivery, aligned expectations, and efficient execution for launches, activations, and campaigns.
- What You Bring:
- 3-5 years of experience in a creative project management/operations role.
- Youâve developed seamless systems for creative teams at other DTC companies.
- Youâre an expert in project management software (we use Airtable and Wrike).
- You have an in-depth working knowledge of Copy, Design, and Photo/Video functions.
- Youâre a true organizational wizard who takes initiative at every levelâyou can put together a high-level calendar, and also track the nitty-gritty execution of each asset.
- Youâre a super confident communicatorâyouâre not afraid to speak up, take charge, and hold team members accountable to timelines.
- What We Bring:
- Co-workers and leadership who care about your success and wellbeing.
- Small company feel with big growth ambitions.
- Competitive compensation, plus equity.
- Health, vision and dental benefits and paid parental leave.
- Employee 401k with company match.
- Fully remote culture.
- Generous vacation time plus 2 âEpic Daysâ yearly (a chance to spontaneously take off and enjoy epic weather!).
- Paid sabbatical after 5 years.
- Paid volunteer time, and organized team volunteer events in VT.
- Free Ursa Major productsâof course!
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