Production Project Manager (Freelance)
Paramount
- New York City, NY Burbank, CA
- $40.00 per hour
- Contract
- Full-time
- Direct and oversee internal digital display design creative production and agency teams ensuring deadlines are met and projects are delivered on time and within budget
- Work closely with Creative Design team leadership in resource planning and management
- Understand and interpret creative briefs and manage production of requested assets via Asana, Airtable, and Jira software
- Partner cross-functionally with managers and directors of campaign project management, program marketing, production
- Lead creative project workflow by planning, tracking, managing and driving all steps in the creative life cycle, including dependencies
- Set up, facilitate, and host status meetings, track action items and share notes
- Work closely with Creative Directors and creative team to define creative concepting process and structure of reviews specific to project needs, and to prioritize and align team on daily and weekly basis, keeping an eye on pipeline of projects
- Facilitate the scheduling and agenda for creative reviews
- Lead and facilitate all stakeholder communication regarding timelines, status updates, and potential risks to the project, and partner with internal teams to identify issues early and suggest workable solutions
- 1-3 years of experience working on the production and delivery of digital display design and/or digital out-of-home
- Familiar with Jira, Google Suite, Microsoft office, Asana, Airtable, and/or other productivity tools
- Strong technical acumen related to digital display design creative deliverables, with fundamental knowledge of key technologies and tools
- Understanding of production and creative operations processes and timelines
- Eagerness to lead complex projects with tight deadlines and multiple dependencies
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with multiple partners at all levels of a corporate organization
- Experience managing project scope and resources
- Superb verbal and written communication skills to relay information simply and clearly to cross functional departments
- Calm, positive, balanced, level-headed, friendly, and collaborative in nature
- Adaptable to change and ability to learn quickly, multitask, deal with and enforce hard deadlines, and manage competing priorities
- Ability to organize information quickly and independently to drive process improvements, bridge gaps in missing requirements, and identify and resolve issues in projects as they arise.