Creative Project Manager - Emerging Brands

kendo; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave

Employee discounts

Retirement plan with employer match

Summer Fridays

Work from anywhere for two weeks

December wellness/shutdown week

Job summary

Kendo Holdings, Inc. is seeking a highly organized Project Manager to join the Creative team supporting Emerging Brands (Ole Henriksen & Lip Lab).

You’ll own GTM and digital timelines for the brands, serving as the primary contact for print and digital projects. Embedded in the creative team, you’ll foster collaboration between brand, marketing, and creative departments to ensure timely launches with all assets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required.
• 5+ years of progressive project management experience, with a strong preference for digital project management within a creative or marketing environment.
• Expert-level proficiency in project management software, including Asana and Adobe Creative Suite (specifically ProofHQ and Workfront).
• Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships and effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and diverse stakeholders.
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• PMP Certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders across brand, marketing, and creative teams to define project scopes, establish timelines, and manage project lifecycles within Asana.
• Efficiently manage project intake and conversion processes within Workfront.
• Drive projects forward, proactively identifying and mitigating risks to ensure deadlines are met.
• Lead and facilitate weekly creative status, review and project kickoff meetings.
• Accurately capture, distribute, and follow up on meeting notes, action items, and other critical inter-team communications.
• Successfully manage a diverse portfolio of concurrent digital projects across multiple brands.
• Continuously identify opportunities for process improvements and workflow optimization to enhance team efficiency and project delivery.

Skills

Project management

Digital project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

PMP Certification (preferred)

Tools

Asana

Workfront

ProofHQ

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

ABOUT KENDO

Kendo Holdings, Inc. is a San Francisco-based beauty brand developer and wholesaler owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, the world's largest luxury group. A play on the words "can do", Kendo has become the hub of creativity and next generation beauty product development for global Sephora channels and selective retailers outside of Sephora.

Through original development, collaborations and acquisitions the Kendo stable of brands will always be creative, inspiring and innovative. A dynamic engine of speed, expertise and market-savvy, the Kendo team continues to redefine the beauty industry through great product, great storytelling, great retail and direct-to-consumer partnerships. This shows up in everything we do and in what we stand for:

• "Can Do" Spirit: We work together to make our wildest dreams a reality: As entrepreneurs, we embrace optimism and find creative ways to reach our goals
• Advocacy, Diversity, and Inclusion: We recognize and celebrate the full spectrum of personal identities. We create safe spaces so everyone's voice is heard. We listen with humility and act with courage.
• Storytelling: We tell authentic stories like no, one else. It's our key to inspire trust and build relationships, rallying, our people, partners, and consumers around our brands.
• Resilience: We embrace challenges as opportunities. Change is ever- constant, and agility is our strength.
• Product Excellence: We put the consumers first: We constantly raise the bar to create products of the highest quality that everyone just has to have.

The salary range for this position is $120,110 - $133,455 per year. Offered salary is dependent upon experience and San Francisco location. This is a hybrid role based in our downtown San Francisco office - Tues through Thursday in-office, with Monday and Friday remote.

Kendo Total Rewards offerings also include an annual bonus anda comprehensive benefits package including: medical, dental and vision insurance, flex paid time off program, parental leave, employee discount/perks, a retirement plan with employer contributions, Summer Fridays, opportunity to work from anywhere for two weeks during the calendar year and December wellness/shutdown week for applicable positions.

The Kendo house of brands currently includes:Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, Fenty Eau de Parfum, Fenty Hair, Ole Henriksen, Lip Lab.

SUMMARY

We are seeking a highly organized and proactive Project Manager to join our creative team, supporting the Emerging Brands (Ole Henriksen & Lip Lab) divisions. This role is critical in ensuring the successful and timely execution of all creative projects. You’ll own GTM and digital timelines for the brands, serving as the creative team’s primary point of contact for print and digital projects. While embedded within the creative team due to the significant creative input required for most projects, this individual will be instrumental in fostering seamless collaboration between brand, marketing, and creative departments to ensure all initiatives launch on schedule with all necessary assets.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner with stakeholders across brand, marketing, and creative teams to define project scopes, establish timelines, and manage project lifecycles within Asana.
• Efficiently manage project intake and conversion processes within Workfront.
• Drive projects forward, proactively identifying and mitigating risks to ensure deadlines are met.
• Lead and facilitate weekly creative status, review and project kickoff meetings.
• Accurately capture, distribute, and follow up on meeting notes, action items, and other critical inter-team communications.
• Successfully manage a diverse portfolio of concurrent digital projects across multiple brands.
• Continuously identify opportunities for process improvements and workflow optimization to enhance team efficiency and project delivery.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of progressive project management experience, with a strong preference for digital project management within a creative or marketing environment.
• Expert-level proficiency in project management software, including Asana and Adobe Creative Suite (specifically ProofHQ and Workfront).
• Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships and effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and diverse stakeholders.
• Exceptional organizational skills with a keen eye for detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• PMP Certification is a plus.