Senior Project Manager

Summary

Join Underdog, the fastest-growing sports gaming company, as a Creative Project Manager. Drive the execution of creative projects across various formats, managing timelines and communication. Act as a central hub between creative and channel stakeholders, ensuring alignment. Own the creative intake process, assigning work and setting up projects for success. Maintain project visibility, track progress, identify blockers, and proactively flag resource gaps. Keep teams informed with consistent updates. Champion process excellence, streamlining workflows and ensuring efficient project movement. Support reporting and visibility by ensuring accurate data input. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of experience in creative project management or marketing production in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in creative project management or marketing production, ideally in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
• A master of managing creative timelines, balancing team bandwidth, and knowing when to flag risks or pivot priorities
• A deep understanding of the creative development process and the ability to translate high-level strategy into actionable steps
• Organized without being rigid, balancing structure with adaptability to support ever-changing needs
• Communicate clearly, effectively, and proactively - keeping everyone informed, aligned, and moving forward
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and thrive when solving problems before they escalate
• Experience with tools like Monday.com , Asana, or similar, and are fluent in building timelines, trackers, and resourcing plans
• Energized by collaboration, but not afraid to take ownership and run with things independently

Responsibilities

• Drive the execution of creative projects from intake through to final delivery, managing timelines, workflows, and communication across a variety of formats – including digital, video, social, and more
• Act as a central hub between creative and channel stakeholders to ensure alignment on timelines and expectations
• Own the creative intake process- review briefs for completeness, assign work based on team capacity, and ensure every project is set up for success from day one
• Maintain daily visibility into project health by tracking progress, identifying blockers, and proactively flagging resource gaps or shifting priorities
• Keep teams informed and connected by providing consistent updates to the Director of Creative Operations and cross-functional stakeholders
• Champion process excellence- help evolve workflows, streamline task handoffs, and ensure every project moves quickly without sacrificing quality or attention to detail
• Support reporting and visibility by ensuring accurate data input in project systems so leadership can understand project volume, delivery timelines, asset types, and team workload

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing creative production timelines across multiple channels including video, digital, and social
• Hands-on ownership of creative intake processes, including brief validation, task assignment, and traffic coordination
• Background in resourcing and effort tracking, with the ability to help prioritize workloads and surface capacity gaps in advance
• Familiarity with asset QA/QC processes, ISCI code handling for video, and final file classification, naming, and delivery workflows
• Experience working with and managing freelance or offshore creative resources, including onboarding, asset handoff, and delivery oversight

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• A $500 home office allowance
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents