Creative Production Manager

Aquent; Newport Beach (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent in Newport Beach, CA seeks an experienced Creative Production Lead to orchestrate the end-to-end creation of assets for multi-channel campaigns. You will partner with marketing, design, and external agencies to translate requirements into a production calendar and ensure on-time delivery of high-quality content.

You will manage photography and video production, budgeting, and vendor relations, while collaborating on content strategy for paid media and CRM across platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in creative or integrated production.
• Experience with paid media formats and delivery specs.
• Experience coordinating internal design, photography, and video.
• Ability to build comprehensive production schedules.
• Familiarity with project management tools.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with creative and marketing teams, along with external agencies, to understand campaign priorities, deliverables, timelines, and requirements.
• Translate agency requirements into a production calendar with resources and deadlines.
• Oversee production across paid social, programmatic, display, and video.
• Coordinate asset development by internal teams, managing specs, versions, approvals, and delivery.
• Anticipate refreshes, testing needs, and campaign updates to stay ahead of demand.
• Manage photography, video, and original content production including planning and budgeting.
• Collaborate with leadership to identify content needs for upcoming campaigns and paid media.
• Strategically plan content production for asset utility across paid media, CRM, web, print, and social.

Skills

Creative production

Digital advertising

Campaign production

Project management

Organizational skills

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Trello

Asana

Workfront

Monday.com

Job description

Skill is partnering with an innovative and dynamic company that is passionate about delivering exceptional experiences and products. This organization is a leader in its field, known for its commitment to quality and a vibrant, engaging brand presence. Join a team where your expertise will directly contribute to shaping the visual and experiential identity of beloved brands, impacting how customers connect and engage with offerings across multiple platforms.

About the Opportunity

We are seeking a highly organized and proactive individual to take the helm of creative production for a wide array of marketing initiatives. In this pivotal role, you will be the driving force behind bringing compelling campaigns to life, ensuring that every creative asset not only meets strategic objectives but also resonates deeply with the target audience. Your impact will be immediate and far-reaching, as you orchestrate the creation and delivery of high-quality content that fuels paid media campaigns and extends across various marketing channels. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your production prowess to elevate brand presence and maximize content investment, directly contributing to the success and growth of the company’s marketing efforts.

What You'll Do

• Partner with creative and marketing teams, along with external agencies, to deeply understand campaign priorities, creative deliverables, launch timelines, and ongoing asset requirements.
• Translate agency requirements into a comprehensive, forward-looking production calendar, meticulously planning backward to identify creative needs, necessary resources, and critical deadlines.
• Oversee creative production across a spectrum of advertising platforms, including paid social, programmatic, digital display, and video.
• Coordinate the development of assets by internal design teams, managing specifications, versioning, adaptations, reviews, approvals, and final delivery.
• Proactively anticipate ongoing creative refreshes, testing needs, and campaign updates to ensure production consistently stays ahead of demand.
• Manage photography, video, and other original content production, encompassing planning, scheduling, budgeting, vendor relations, and post-production.
• Collaborate with creative leadership to identify content needs aligned with upcoming campaigns and paid media deliverables.
• Strategically plan content production to maximize asset utility across paid media, CRM, web, print, and organic social channels.
• Oversee asset organization, delivery, and repurposing to optimize creative investments and ensure efficient use of resources.
• Own and maintain integrated production schedules, meticulously tracking multiple campaigns, deliverables, and internal resources.
• Serve as the central production liaison between creative teams, marketing, external agencies, and other partners.
• Manage production workflows, approval processes, deadlines, and project status, proactively resolving challenges and adapting to shifting priorities.
• Identify and implement opportunities to enhance production efficiency and establish scalable workflows that support future growth.

What Success Looks Like

Your success in this role will be defined by the seamless launch of paid media campaigns featuring high-quality, on-brand creative. You will ensure that creative production is proactively planned around agency timelines and deliverable needs, empowering internal designers to focus on creative development while production is expertly managed. Your efforts will result in content investments yielding versatile assets that can be leveraged across multiple marketing channels, and production workflows that are consistently efficient, organized, and scalable.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in creative production, digital advertising production, or integrated campaign production.
• Strong understanding of paid media creative formats, specifications, versioning, and delivery requirements.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with paid media agencies and managing creative production across multiple digital platforms.
• Proven experience coordinating internal design teams, photography and video production, and external production partners.
• Ability to develop comprehensive production schedules, anticipate content needs, and effectively manage multiple competing deadlines.
• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite and Trello, as well as project management tools such as Asana, Workfront, or Monday.com.
• Exceptional organizational skills, strong communication abilities, meticulous attention to detail, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.