Senior Creative Ops Project Manager

Underdog is a fast-growing sports company that creates engaging products for sports fans. The Senior Creative Ops Project Manager will be responsible for managing complex campaigns and video productions while integrating AI tools into workflows to enhance team productivity.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end project management for complex, integrated campaigns and video productions, tracking briefs, timelines, reviews, and final delivery across multiple stakeholders
• Simultaneously manage a high volume of smaller one-off creative requests (static, video, animation), keeping all projects moving without letting anything fall through the cracks
• Maintain Monday.com as the single source of truth for all active projects, timelines, and team capacity, own the daily hotsheet so priorities and deadlines are always clear
• Lead weekly creative status meetings with team leads to ensure alignment, surface blockers early, and drive accountability
• Build and maintain a live resourcing model that maps team bandwidth to project load, flag gaps, overages, and risks before they become problems
• Proactively identify and implement AI tools and workflow improvements that help the team work faster, smarter, and more consistently
• Use AI tools to draft copy, give structured feedback on creative writing, and help the team iterate faster on messaging

Requirements:

• A project management pro who thrives in fast-paced, high-output environments, equally comfortable managing a six-week video campaign and a same-week static asset
• You understand production workflows deeply, what it actually takes to run a video shoot, manage post-production, and hit a delivery date
• Highly organized but flexible, you know when to hold the line on process and when to adapt without losing momentum
• Genuinely excited about AI, you're already using it to work smarter and you want to help an entire team do the same
• Comfortable using AI to draft and refine copy, and able to give clear, constructive feedback on creative writing
• A strong communicator who keeps stakeholders aligned, surfaces issues early, and comes to the table with solutions, not just problems
• Detail-obsessed but not a bottleneck, you move fast, bring others with you, and make the work feel easier for the whole team
• Own end-to-end project management for complex, integrated campaigns and video productions, tracking briefs, timelines, reviews, and final delivery across multiple stakeholders
• Simultaneously manage a high volume of smaller one-off creative requests (static, video, animation), keeping all projects moving without letting anything fall through the cracks
• Maintain Monday.com as the single source of truth for all active projects, timelines, and team capacity, own the daily hotsheet so priorities and deadlines are always clear
• Lead weekly creative status meetings with team leads to ensure alignment, surface blockers early, and drive accountability
• Build and maintain a live resourcing model that maps team bandwidth to project load, flag gaps, overages, and risks before they become problems
• Proactively identify and implement AI tools and workflow improvements that help the team work faster, smarter, and more consistently
• Use AI tools to draft copy, give structured feedback on creative writing, and help the team iterate faster on messaging
• Experience in a sports, entertainment, or gaming environment
• Hands-on experience managing video productions, including pre-production planning, shoot logistics, and post-production timelines
• Familiarity with AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or similar, especially for copy drafting, creative feedback, or workflow automation
• Background in a creative or production agency where juggling multiple project types simultaneously is the norm
• Experience building or optimizing creative operations workflows from scratch