WeWork

Project Manager, Creative Operations

WeWork$85K — $114K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years as a project manager or producer in a fast-paced agency or in-house creative environment.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field.
  • Experience managing both print and digital creative projects end-to-end.
  • Strong time management, prioritization skills, and ability to handle a high volume of projects.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Proficiency in MS Excel, Google Sheets, and familiarity with project management tools like Asana or JIRA.
  • Creative approach to AI workflow automation.

Responsibilities

  • Review and assess creative briefs with marketing and creative team leads to filter requests and establish priorities.
  • Communicate with internal partners to provide status updates and manage expectations on ongoing projects.
  • Coordinate with teams to ensure timely delivery of multiple projects and manage schedules effectively.
  • Allocate resources by distributing assignments to in-house designers and copywriters based on availability and project priorities.
  • Secure and manage contracts and logistics for freelancers, facilitating their onboarding and invoice processing.
  • Create and implement process improvements for the marketing team to enhance collaboration and project outcomes.
  • Maintain and organize job files and oversee the internal Digital Asset Management system.

Benefits

  • 20 days of PTO and approximately 13 paid holidays, plus 80 hours of paid sick time annually.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave for eligible employees.
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits including competitive plans.
  • 401k retirement plan for financial security.
  • Life and AD&D insurance coverage.
Full Job Description
About the Opportunity

The Project Manager, Creative Operations will be a lead member of this small but influential group. You will play a role in establishing the processes and relationships shared by business and creative partners. Running day-to-day processes across the brand and creative team, you ensure all work flows efficiently from start to end. Your goal is to communicate expectations, keep everyone on task, projects on deadline, handling the logistics, and ultimately creating an environment for outstanding creativity to thrive.

Responsibilities:
  • Review + filter creative briefs: In collaboration with marketing + creative team leadership, assess quality and priority of new requests, partnering with internal clients to gather vital information. (Critical thinking and strategic prioritization skills required.)

  • Manage expectations/communication: Meet with internal partners to learn more about new projects, give status updates on existing projects, and communicate any issues and upcoming checkpoints in a timely manner.

  • Handle project schedules + deadlines:Coordinate with multiple teams in ensuring the delivery of numerous projects, facilitating project needs, requirements, and timelines.

  • Manage resource allocation:Distribute assignments to in-house designers and copywriters, depending on availability and priorities.

  • Handle all contractor logistics: For overflow work, secure/lead freelancers, ensuring they have the resources needed for their jobs. Facilitate smooth on-boarding and invoice processing for our external partners.

  • Implement process improvements: Proactively create processes and efficiencies for the rapidly growing marketing team, facilitating better cross-team teamwork and project outcomes.

  • Manage job files and outputs: Maintain job files and the overall organization of team deliverables.

  • Manage and upkeep our internal Digital Asset Management (DAM): Ensure files and final assets stay organized.

About You
  • Have 5+ years as a project manager or producer in a fast-moving agency and/or in-house creative environment. Interdepartmental and global project management experience is a plus. Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, or related field.

  • Experience with end-to-end handling both print and digital creative projects.

  • Strong time management and prioritization skills with experience balancing a high volume of projects at a time.

  • A demonstrated positive, solution-oriented approach to unifying and motivating project teams.

  • Clear and effective interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.

  • Proficiency in MS Excel and Google Sheets. Experience in PM tools such as Asana, Airtable, Basecamp, JIRA, or similar tools is a plus.

  • Proficient and creative with AI workflow automation.

You are:
  • Ready and willing to go an extra step for your work and your team while eager to be a part of the extraordinary work that drives business results.

  • Driven to continually improve processes across the department.

  • Motivated to work in a place where no two days are the same. Highly organized with strong attention to detail.

  • Passionate about the WeWork mission and collaborating with and delivering for partners.

Compensation & Benefits

Base Pay: $85,000 to $114,000 annually

Incentive Compensation: WeWork employees are eligible to participate in an incentive plan specific to their role. Your recruiter will detail what incentive plan is applicable to this specific role. WeWork incentive plans are subject to the terms of the applicable incentive compensation plan, which will be made available to you after commencing employment. WeWork reserves the right to amend its incentive plans, and nothing in this job requisition or any other document creates a right to a specific incentive plan payment.

Benefits: Full-time employees are eligible for comprehensive benefits (subject to the terms of applicable plans/policies/agreements, which will be made available to you after commencing employment), including: 20 days of PTO, approximately 13 paid holidays, and 80 hours of paid sick time per full calendar year; 16 weeks paid parental leave; competitive healthcare benefits; 401k plan; and life and AD&D insurance.

About WeWork

WeWork is a real estate company that provides shared workspaces for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and small businesses. The company was founded in 2010 and has since expanded to over 800 locations in more than 100 countries. WeWork's spaces offer amenities such as high-speed internet, printing and scanning services, and conference rooms. The company has faced controversy over its business model and financial practices, including its failed IPO in 2019. In 2020, WeWork announced plans to go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
Learn more about WeWork
Size
15,000 employees
Market Cap
$830.6 million
Industry
Founded
2017
NASDAQ

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at WeWork

More Media Jobs

Find similar Project Manager, Creative Operations jobs: