Creative Project Manager, Manifold

Manifold, part of Lyft, produces creative experiences and events for its clients. The Creative Project Manager oversees creative initiatives from concept and design approval through production and installation, coordinating schedules, deliverables, status reporting, and resourcing.

Responsibilities:

• Own the master workback schedules (internal and client-facing) pulling key dates and deliverables from source materials like briefs, RFI packets, and contracts, and keeping them aligned across teams
• Work closely with design counterparts to ensure their deadlines and deliverables are clear and achieved
• Keep all deadlines accurate and current across internal and client workback documents as timelines shift
• Maintain a centralized tracker and dashboard with deliverables, deadlines, documentation links, and status updates as the single source of truth for project health
• Drive internal accountability through regular communications, including weekly status reports, and keep timelines current in status meetings
• Keep the Creative Director and Creative Services Manager informed on overall project health
• Coordinate and manage all design requests from Account and Production, prioritizing by timeline and urgency
• Communicate regularly with Account and Production on deliverable status and progress
• Partner with Producers and Creative to identify upcoming deliverables, proactively flagging risks or blockers to the Creative and Account Director
• Partner with the Creative Services Manager and Creative Director on resourcing by monitoring team bandwidth and availability
• Track project scope and hours against plan, flagging potential overages early to the Creative Service Manager

Requirements:

• 3+ years of project management or creative operations experience in an agency, studio, or in-house creative team
• A proactive ability to, “follow the crumbs” if answers don't immediately seem clear
• Demonstrated strength with detailed record keeping for multiple concurrent projects
• Strong command of workback schedules and deadlines
• Confidence coordinating creative work and communicating status clearly across Creative, Account, and Production
• Sharp organizational judgment,  you spot risks and blockers before they become problems
• A collaborative, low-ego style and calm under shifting priorities
• The ability to wear a lot of hats and support as each workstream needs
• Prior work history within a top-tier creative agency or in-house marketing team
• Hands-on experience managing fabrication and print production within creative projects