Advertising Creative Project Manager

Summary

Join M+R as a Creative Project Manager and contribute to impactful advertising campaigns for nonprofit clients. You will collaborate with designers, vendors, and clients, managing creative projects from conception to approval. Responsibilities include reviewing creative work, managing teams and deadlines using internal systems, developing efficient processes, maintaining the creative portfolio, and handling basic creative edits. The ideal candidate possesses 4-5 years of relevant experience, proficiency in Photoshop, and strong project management skills. M+R offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, flexible work arrangements, and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• 4-5 years of creative project management experience with a focus on digital production and digital design
• Basic Photoshop proficiency: you can make minor changes, such as text edits
• Experience working with others to implement processes, systems, and tools that increase accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency
• Able to manage up and across to secure what you need to get the job done
• Demonstrated commitment to anti-racism, equity, and inclusion
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively to gain trust and give respect to others through honesty, integrity, kindness, empathy, and authenticity
• Acute attention to detail and demonstrated ability to prioritize time to meet deadlines for multiple projects
• Proven track record to successfully pick up new skills, including learning new technologies
• Drive to seek what can be improved and offer ways to fix any potential roadblocks
• Comfort admitting what you don’t know and recognizing that feedback is part of the learning process
• Strong ability to relay your ideas clearly verbally and in writing
• Able to work within equitable and inclusive decision making models in moving decisions and initiatives forward

Responsibilities

• Work directly with digital designers, outside vendors, client teams, and clients to route advertising and other creative from conception through approval
• Do a thorough and detailed review of creative to ensure it incorporates all direction, feedback, and is within our clients' brand guidelines
• Use our internal task management systems to manage teams to meet all deadlines
• Develop and maintain internal processes to improve the creative process that are focused on efficiency and high quality work
• Maintain M+R’s creative portfolio and our internal database of creative examples/inspiration
• Handle basic creative edits and management tasks within advertising and other platforms, for example making simple copy edits in Photoshop
• Do your part to help us run smoothly, including carefully tracking all of your hours

Preferred Qualifications

• Agency experience, including direct client management
• Familiarity with creative best practices for direct response advertising
• Familiarity managing rich media/HTML5/video projects
• Familiarity with tools like Swayable, Bannersnack, and Smartly

Benefits

• Three weeks vacation, three personal days, and 15 paid sick days
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits with premiums fully paid for by M+R for individual employees
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Quarterly discretionary profit-sharing contributions
• Flexible work schedules and the option to work remotely anywhere within the United States and its territories with broadband internet
• Annual $1,000 professional development stipend
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical, dependent care, and transit