Creative Analyst

elementalimpact; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Elemental Impact is seeking a Creative Analyst to join our Communications team. This role lies at the intersection of project management and visual storytelling, balancing structure with a creative mindset.

You will help bring Elemental's brand to life across our digital channels, visual communications, and events while keeping a fast-moving portfolio of creative projects organized and on track. Reporting to the Managing Director, Brand and Creative and working closely with Elemental's

Qualifications

• Professional experience in creative project management, production, digital media or marketing.
• Ability to manage timelines, deliverables, details, and stakeholders.
• Track record of producing accurate, polished work.
• Experience creating or producing visual communications.
• Comfort working across websites and digital asset platforms.
• Strong alignment with Elemental's mission and values.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Managing Director, Brand and Creative to build and maintain clear project briefs, leveraging AI and other tools to make creative workflows more efficient.
• Support project management across communications and creative projects, including developing timelines, tracking deliverables, and keeping projects moving toward completion.
• Coordinate logistics and schedules for photo and video shoots.
• Develop clear briefing materials for creative vendors, including photographers, videographers, designers, and other production partners.
• Maintain Elemental's photo asset management system in Canto, ensuring assets are organized, searchable, and accessible to the team.

Skills

Creative production experience

Project management

Detail orientation

Visual fluency

Digital savvy

Brand development

Job description

About Elemental Impact

Elemental Impact is a nonprofit investor with 17 years of experience advancing innovative technologies with deep environmental and local impact. Elemental is supported by 40 funders and its portfolio includes 160 companies that have catalyzed $11.8B in additional funding and created more than 18,100 jobs. Elemental works to address market failures for first-of-a-kind and early commercial projects by providing catalytic capital and specialized expertise-from policy engagement to workforce development.

About the Role

Elemental is seeking a Creative Analyst to join our Communications team. This role sits at the intersection of project management and visual storytelling. We're looking for someone who pairs exceptional attention to detail with a creative mindset. You enjoy bringing structure to creative work, are comfortable moving between project management and hands‑on execution, and are eager to explore how new tools-including AI‑can make creative teams more effective. You will also help bring Elemental's brand to life across our digital channels, visual communications, and events while keeping a fast‑moving portfolio of creative projects organized and on track.

This position will report to the Managing Director, Brand and Creative and work closely with Elemental's Communications team.

Key Responsibilities Include

Creative Project Management

• Collaborate with the Managing Director, Brand and Creative to build and maintain clear project briefs, leveraging AI and other tools to make creative workflows more efficient.
• Support project management across communications and creative projects, including developing timelines, tracking deliverables, and keeping projects moving toward completion.
• Coordinate logistics and schedules for photo and video shoots.
• Develop clear briefing materials for creative vendors, including photographers, videographers, designers, and other production partners.
• Maintain Elemental's photo asset management system in Canto, ensuring assets are organized, searchable, and accessible to the team.
• Build and maintain a centralized video asset management system.
• Help improve the systems, tools, and processes the team uses to manage creative projects and assets.
• Maintain and update Elemental's website, including publishing blog posts, updating page copy and images using our content management system, and liaising with Elemental's technical website team as needed.

Visual Communications

• Independently create polished visuals leveraging Elemental's existing brand system and creative templates, including presentation decks, social graphics, simple videos, and other digital assets.
• Partner with Elemental's Senior Designer and Communications team to translate ideas and information into clear, compelling visual content.

Owned events

• Support Elemental's Events Director in developing and maintaining event project briefs, production timelines, and planning materials.
• Curate, organize, and maintain audience and invitation lists for Elemental events.
• Track event registration and guest logistics, including RSVPs, waitlists, rooming lists, and other attendee information.
• Support event production and coordination leading up to Elemental's owned events.

About you

You are equal parts organizer and creative thinker. You like making complex projects feel manageable and take pride in the details that make creative work excellent. You can keep a project tracker organized one moment and jump into a presentation or social graphic the next.
You're naturally curious about visual storytelling and emerging creative tools. You don't need to be a specialist designer, photographer, or videographer, but you have a strong visual eye and a desire to learn about what makes creative work clear, engaging, and on-brand.
You thrive in collaborative, fast‑moving environments and are comfortable juggling multiple projects, deadlines, and stakeholders without losing sight of the details.

Qualifications

Foundational skills & experience:

• Mission alignment - energized by Elemental's mission and values and want to apply your creative and operational skills to the work
• Creative production experience - professional experience in creative project management, production, digital media or marketing, brand development, or a related field
• Project management - ability to manage timelines, deliverables, details, and stakeholders across multiple concurrent projects
• Detail orientation - a track record of producing accurate, polished work and keeping complex information organized
• Visual fluency - experience creating or producing visual communications, with a strong eye for design and storytelling
• Digital savvy - comfort working across websites, digital asset management systems, presentation and design tools, and other digital platforms

What Will Set You Apart

• Creative curiosity - generate ideas, explore possibilities, and look for ways to make the work better rather than simply executing what alre