Studio Traffic & Workflow Manager (Hybrid)

Freeman Company; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life, Accident and Disability

Retirement with Company Match

Paid Time Off

Job summary

The Freeman Company is seeking a Studio Manager to oversee workflow, traffic, and briefs for the EMEA creative team. You will own day-to-day flow from brief intake to final delivery, maintaining live status and coordinating handoffs between disciplines.

This role offers a hybrid London-based schedule, generally requiring in-office presence one day per week (Wednesdays), with travel up to 25% for shoots and events.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years in a studio, traffic or workflow management role within a creative, design or in-house creative team.
• Strong organisational skills, comfortable balancing multiple concurrent creative jobs and shifting priorities.
• Confident communicator, able to coordinate across designers, Creative Leads and account or production teams.
• Proficiency with workflow or project management tools (for example, Monday.com, Asana, or similar).
• A clear understanding of the creative process, and what
• good

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day flow of work through the creative team, from brief intake to final delivery
• Maintain live visibility of every creative job's status, priority and deadline
• Keep the queue of live briefs sequenced by priority and deadline, giving the Resource Manager full visibility to allocate people accordingly
• Flag capacity conflicts to the Resource Manager rather than resolving them directly — who works on what sits solely with the Resource Manager
• Flag workflow bottlenecks and deadline risks early, and eliminate where needed
• Own and maintain the creative team's workflow/traffic tool, keeping it current and accurate
• Ensure every job entering the creative team arrives with a complete, actionable brief
• Track that PO paperwork for creative freelancers is raised and approved ahead of their start date, chasing whoever owns it if it's at risk of holding up the work — freelancers won't raise these themselves, so this is a workflow gate, not a finance task
• Coordinate handoffs between creative disciplines (for example, concept to design, design to motion)
• Run regular traffic meetings with Creative Leads to review priorities, status and risks
• Build review and approval checkpoints into the workflow so work is checked before it moves downstream
• Maintain and refine SOPs for how work flows in, through and out of the creative team
• Identify and implement process improvements that increase creative throughput and quality
• Act as the day-to-day point of contact for the creative team on workflow questions
• Support new creative team members in onboarding to workflow tools and processes
• Coordinate creative team meetings, reviews and internal presentations

Skills

Studio/workflow management

Organsational skills

Effective communicator

Tool proficiency: Monday.com/Asana

Understanding of creative process

Experiential/brand agency experience

Adobe Creative Cloud / design workflow

Education

PMP certification

Tools

Monday.com

Asana

Adobe Creative Cloud

Figma

Job description

The Freeman Company is seeking a Studio Manager to oversee workflow, traffic, and briefs for the EMEA creative team. You will own day-to-day flow from brief intake to final delivery, maintaining live status and coordinating handoffs between disciplines.

This role offers a hybrid London-based schedule, generally requiring in-office presence one day per week (Wednesdays), with travel up to 25% for shoots and events.