Job Description
DESCRIPTION
At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us.
ABOUT THIS ROLE
We are looking for a Associate Director, Creative Project Management to own and drive the development and execution of creative assets and marketing campaigns into the marketplace end to end. Together, we will build and extend our brand, attract and convert new customers and engage our existing community of listeners in authentic and compelling ways.
ABOUT YOU
You are a highly skilled and experienced Project Management professional with a keen eye for detail and an innate drive for order and efficiency. Your expertise lies in deftly guiding creative development processes from ideation to completion, masterfully juggling multiple workstreams while building momentum and facilitating collaboration across teams. With your exceptional ability to connect the dots across diverse yet interconnected areas, you adeptly navigate and knock down barriers that may arise throughout a project's lifecycle. Your data-driven approach, grounded in operational realities, allows you to confidently present recommendations backed by insights, metrics, and proven experience. You thrive in driving projects forward as a champion, diplomat, and facilitator, ensuring seamless execution and successful outcomes through effective data analysis and decision-making.
As the Associate Director, Creative Project Management, you will...
- Manage the end-to-end creative development and production lifecycle for 360-degree creative development focused on marketing assets and campaigns for JP, including performance marketing assets, promotional and content creative assets, owned surface creative management, and celebrity narration asset production
- Work collaboratively with creative and marketing teams to project manage and drive small to large-scale creative projects across acquisition, brand/content marketing and revenue/CX categories, ensuring completion on time and budget
- Work with agency and production partners and manage timelines, production scope and delivery of creative
- Develop comprehensive project schedules and complex multi-month project schedules identifying all major review and delivery milestones, dependencies, and creating sub-schedules for each individual deliverable ensuring project team and stakeholder alignment
- Use expert knowledge of creative development and production processes for all types of creative deliverables such as key art, cover art, live action, animation, trailers, audio spots, etc.
- Use and continually develop leadership skills to help distill and translate complex information into clear takeaways and actions for the creative team
- Lead communications around project priorities to the creative team
- Understand and identify key inter-dependencies and critical path tasks, as well as anticipate potential issues.
- Proactively keep team members on deadlines in an effective but positive way
- Work very closely with external creative agencies and vendors for kick off, briefing, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and have a deep understanding of how their workflow and timeline fits into our larger internal creative schedule; provide comprehensive information and source materials for creative team asset production
- Lead regular stand-ups with Creative team to update on status, set priorities, talk through deliverables and sub-schedules, and help to un-block blockers
- Route all creative for review through key stakeholders, both internal and external
- Manage all budgets and administrative tasks for campaigns: expense tracking, SOWs, POs, invoices, budget wrap reports
- Manage all aspects of compliance across each campaign: talent and photo restrictions, tagline clearances, music licensing, photo licensing, font licensing, talent releases, and routing all creative or working with Marketing partners through Legal at various touchpoints throughout the campaign
- Proactively identify opportunities for improvement and move quickly to implement these new workflows or systems
ABOUT AUDIBLE
Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible, supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience with organizational and time management abilities to prioritize tasks, handle multiple responsibilities simultaneously, and consistently meet deadlines in a demanding, fast-paced work environment
- Business fluency in both English and Japanese, written and spoken
- Experience managing creative development
- Experience with project management principles and processes
- 10+ years of Marketing experience preferably with a Global company
- 5+ years project management experience preferably at a creative agency, entertainment company or network
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