Creative Resource Manager

LAUNDRY; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Healthcare coverage

Paid time off

Company holidays

Job summary

LAUNDRY is seeking a Creative Resource Manager to support our production department with freelance staffing, capacity planning, and scheduling across our creative studio. You’ll work closely with the Head of Production, Producers, Executive Creative Directors, and others to ensure the right team is in place at the right time.

This cross-functional role requires exceptional organization, proactive mindset, and comfort juggling multiple moving pieces as priorities shift.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in resource management, creative operations, project coordination, or related fields.
• Strong understanding of creative production workflows including pre-production, shoot execution, and post-production.
• Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail.
• Naturally proactive with the ability to spot potential problems.
• Strong people skills and ability to build trust with creatives, project leads, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Resource planning across all production-related active and upcoming creative projects.
• Maintain an up-to-date view of team availability, workload, and project schedules.
• Identify capacity gaps, scheduling conflicts, and potential bottlenecks before they become issues.
• Track utilization and help leadership understand over- or under-capacity.
• Coordinate freelance staffing and ensure staffing aligns with project scopes and timelines.

Job description

We're looking for a Creative Resource Manager to support our production department with freelance staffing, capacity planning, and scheduling across our creative studio.

You’ll work closely with the Head of Production, Producers, Executive Creative Directors, and others to make sure every project has the right team in place at the right time. You’ll maintain a clear view across active and upcoming work, understand where the team has capacity, identify conflicts before they become problems, and help us make smart freelance staffing decisions as priorities shift.

This is a highly cross-functional role for someone who is exceptionally organized, proactive, and comfortable managing many moving pieces at once.

What You’ll Do

Resource & Capacity Management

• Resource planning across all production-related active and upcoming creative projects.
• Maintain a clear, up-to-date view of team availability, workload, and project schedules, and upcoming capacity
• Identify capacity gaps, scheduling conflicts, and potential bottlenecks before they become issues.
• Track utilization and help leadership understand where the team is over- or under-capacity.
• Anticipate future resource needs based on the studio’s pipeline and upcoming work.

Project Freelance Staffing & Scheduling

• Match projects with the right internal team members based on skills, experience, availability, and project needs.
• Partner with Creative Producers and creative leads to understand staffing needs and build the right project teams.
• Support freelance staffing for new business opportunities and incoming projects before work kicks off.
• Manage staffing changes as project scopes, timelines, and priorities shift
• Coordinate internal production staffing across shoots and maintain visibility into the studio-wide shoot calendar.

Resource Planning Systems

• Keep resource plans and staffing information accurate and up to date.
• Build and maintain simple systems, trackers, and dashboards for resource planning.
• Improve the processes we use to make staffing decisions faster and more transparent.
• Help leadership understand the resource impact of upcoming work before commitments are made

What We’re Looking For

• 3–5 years of experience in resource management, creative operations, project coordination, creative production, or a related field
• Strong understanding of creative production workflows, including pre‑production, shoot execution, and post‑production
• Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail
• Naturally proactive — you see potential problems before someone has to point them out.
• Strong people skills and the ability to build trust with creatives, project leads, and leadership
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities and constantly changing timelines.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Able to make thoughtful decisions with incomplete information.
• Resourceful, persistent, and comfortable working without a rigid playbook
• Comfortable with spreadsheets and quick to learn new tools

Why Join Us

• Play a central role in how a fast‑growing creative studio operates
• Work across a wide range of production projects for ambitious technology companies
• Help build the freelance staffing and resource systems the company will use as it scales.
• Collaborate closely with Creative Producers, creative leadership, and company leadership.
• Remote-friendly
• Healthcare coverage, PTO, and company holidays, among other benefits.