Creative Operations Project Manager

Lerma; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Paid company holidays and vacation

Paid sick leave

Comprehensive benefits package

401k and profit-sharing retirement

Job summary

Lerma is seeking a Creative Operations Project Manager in Dallas to lead multi-account campaigns from concept through delivery. This role combines creativity, operations, and production, partnering with creative, strategy, account, and production teams to ensure high-quality work is delivered efficiently.

You will build timelines and scopes, manage budgets and resources, and protect the integrity of the work while maintaining momentum under pressure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management, creative operations, or integrated production experience.
• Strong understanding of the creative development process across brand, social, digital, film, experiential, and integrated campaigns.
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills.
• Experience building timelines, managing scopes, budgets, and resource allocation.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day workflow across integrated creative projects, campaigns, shoots, and productions.
• Build and manage timelines, scopes, deliverables, approvals, and resourcing plans across multiple accounts.
• Partner with Creative Leadership to prioritize work and manage team capacity.
• Help create operational systems and processes that improve collaboration, communication, and creative output.
• Anticipate roadblocks and proactively solve problems.
• Ensure projects stay on track creatively, strategically, and financially.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment between creative, strategy, account, media, social, and production teams.
• Support freelance staffing, onboarding, and external creative/vendor coordination as needed.
• Bring calm, organization, and clarity to fast-moving environments.
• Foster a culture of ambition, accountability, collaboration, and creative excellence.

Skills

Project management

Creative operations

Cross-functional collaboration

Budgeting & resourcing

Communication skills

Tools

Asana

Monday.com

Workfront

Airtable

Job description

LERMA/ is looking for a Creative Operations Project Manager to help drive ambitious ideas from concept to execution. This role sits at the intersection of creativity, operations, and production — partnering closely with creative, strategy, account, and production teams to ensure great work happens efficiently, collaboratively, and at the highest level of craft.

This is not a traditional project management role. We’re looking for someone who understands the creative process, protects the integrity of the work, and knows how to bring structure without slowing momentum. Someone who can navigate complexity, manage multiple moving pieces, and help teams do their best work under pressure.

What You’ll Do

• Lead day-to-day workflow across integrated creative projects, campaigns, shoots, and productions.
• Build and manage timelines, scopes, deliverables, approvals, and resourcing plans across multiple accounts.
• Partner closely with Creative Leadership to prioritize work and manage team capacity.
• Help create operational systems and processes that improve collaboration, communication, and creative output.
• Anticipate roadblocks before they happen and proactively solve problems.
• Ensure projects stay on track creatively, strategically, and financially.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment between creative, strategy, account, media, social, and production teams.
• Support freelance staffing, onboarding, and external creative/vendor coordination when needed.
• Bring calm, organization, and clarity to fast-moving environments.
• Help foster a culture of ambition, accountability, collaboration, and creative excellence.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of project management, creative operations, or integrated production experience within an agency or creative environment.
• Strong understanding of the creative development process across brand, social, digital, film, experiential, and integrated campaigns.
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines without losing attention to detail.
• Experience building timelines, managing scopes, budgets, and resource allocation.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and adapting quickly as priorities evolve.
• Collaborative mindset with the confidence to push conversations forward and challenge when needed.
• Deep respect for creativity and the realities of making great work.
• Experience with project management platforms such as Asana, Monday, Workfront, Airtable, or similar tools.

Who You Are

• Calm under pressure.
• Highly organized without being rigid.
• Solutions-oriented.
• Collaborative and proactive.
• Obsessed with making the work better.
• Someone who understands that process should support creativity — not suffocate it.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Paid company holidays and vacation earned per year
• Paid sick leave
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life/ADD, and short-/long-term insurance
• 401k and annual profit-sharing retirement plans

Note: Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.