Project Manager

wwecorp; Stamford (CT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

WWE is seeking a Project Manager to oversee the flow of creative work from intake through final delivery in a fast-paced environment supporting the AAA brand. You will coordinate creative requests, licensing submissions, merchandise initiatives, and talent-related projects across internal teams and external partners.

The role requires collaboration with designers, brand leads, licensing, and production partners to ensure timely delivery, alignment with brand direction, and budget adherence.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain strong working relationships across AAA and related business functions, including Creative, Licensing, Consumer Products, Merchandise, Talent, Marketing, Communications, Digital, Production, and other stakeholders.
• Manage projects through all phases of the creative, approval, licensing, and production process to ensure timelines, budget requirements, and job specifications are met.
• Coordinate project intake, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and approvals across multiple concurrent assignments, ensuring clear communication and accountability at every stage.
• Partner closely with designers and creative leads to define project scope, deliverable requirements, production approaches, and workflow needs.
• Maintain clear project documentation, status updates, schedules, and action items so stakeholders have visibility into priorities, next steps, risks, and dependencies.
• Keep current with AAA programming, talent, events, brand priorities, merchandise needs, and business objectives to support informed planning and effective project coordination.
• Manage the intake and coordination of creative requests supporting the AAA brand across marketing, digital, social, events, merchandise, talent, licensing, and other business needs.
• Help translate stakeholder requests into clear creative briefs, project plans, timelines, and deliverable lists.
• Coordinate the development and review of AAA brand assets, including campaign creative, promotional materials, merchandise graphics, talent-related creative, logos, and other visual applications.
• Partner with creative leads to ensure work is aligned with approved brand direction, usage requirements, project scope, and stakeholder expectations.
• Track feedback and approvals, consolidate comments, and help drive timely decisions across internal teams and external partners.
• Identify potential creative, operational, or approval issues early and help develop practical solutions that protect quality and delivery timelines.
• Coordinate the preparation, organization, and routing of creative materials required for licensing submissions and approvals.
• Maintain submission trackers, deadlines, asset requirements, status updates, and approval records for active licensing projects.
• Partner with Licensing, Creative, Merchandise, Legal, and other stakeholders to confirm that submissions are complete, accurate, properly formatted, and delivered on time.
• Help manage revisions, comments, and follow-up requests throughout the licensing review process.
• Maintain organized records of approved assets, supporting materials, and final submission files.
• Support project management for AAA merchandise in

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional coordination

Communication

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Job description

Who We Are:

WWE® is the global leader in sports entertainment. The company creates and delivers original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. WWE is committed to family-friendly entertainment on its television programming, Premium Live Events, digital media, and publishing platforms. WWE's TV-PG programming can be seen in more than 1 billion households worldwide in more than 20 languages through world-class distribution partners including Netflix, ESPN, NBCUniversal, USA Network and The CW. WWE is part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO). Additional information on WWE can be found at wwe.com and corporate.wwe.com.

TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO owns iconic properties including UFC, the world's premier mixed martial arts organization; WWE, the global leader in sports entertainment; and PBR, the world's premier bull riding organization. Together, these properties reach 1 billion households across 210 countries and territories and organize more than 500 live events year-round, attracting more than three million fans. TKO also services and partners with major sports rights holders through IMG, an industry-leading global sports marketing agency; and On Location, a global leader in premium experiential hospitality.

Position Summary

The Project Manager is responsible for managing the flow of creative work from intake through final delivery across a high-volume, fast-paced environment supporting the AAA brand. This role coordinates creative requests, licensing submission support, merchandise initiatives, talent-related projects, logo development, and related brand deliverables across internal teams and external partners.

This position serves as a key operational partner to Creative, helping projects move efficiently from concept through completion while ensuring alignment on priorities, timelines, approvals, budgets, and deliverable requirements. The Project Manager works closely with designers, creative leads, licensing, merchandise, talent, marketing, production partners, and other stakeholders to keep work organized, on track, and executed to a high standard.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management & Cross-Functional Coordination

• Establish and maintain strong working relationships across AAA and related business functions, including Creative, Licensing, Consumer Products, Merchandise, Talent, Marketing, Communications, Digital, Production, and other stakeholders.
• Manage projects through all phases of the creative, approval, licensing, and production process to ensure timelines, budget requirements, and job specifications are met.
• Coordinate project intake, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and approvals across multiple concurrent assignments, ensuring clear communication and accountability at every stage.
• Partner closely with designers and creative leads to define project scope, deliverable requirements, production approaches, and workflow needs.
• Maintain clear project documentation, status updates, schedules, and action items so stakeholders have visibility into priorities, next steps, risks, and dependencies.
• Keep current with AAA programming, talent, events, brand priorities, merchandise needs, and business objectives to support informed planning and effective project coordination.

AAA Creative & Brand Support

• Manage the intake and coordination of creative requests supporting the AAA brand across marketing, digital, social, events, merchandise, talent, licensing, and other business needs.
• Help translate stakeholder requests into clear creative briefs, project plans, timelines, and deliverable lists.
• Coordinate the development and review of AAA brand assets, including campaign creative, promotional materials, merchandise graphics, talent-related creative, logos, and other visual applications.
• Partner with creative leads to ensure work is aligned with approved brand direction, usage requirements, project scope, and stakeholder expectations.
• Track feedback and approvals, consolidate comments, and help drive timely decisions across internal teams and external partners.
• Identify potential creative, operational, or approval issues early and help develop practical solutions that protect quality and delivery timelines.

Licensing Submission Support

• Coordinate the preparation, organization, and routing of creative materials required for licensing submissions and approvals.
• Maintain submission trackers, deadlines, asset requirements, status updates, and approval records for active licensing projects.
• Partner with Licensing, Creative, Merchandise, Legal, and other stakeholders to confirm that submissions are complete, accurate, properly formatted, and delivered on time.
• Help manage revisions, comments, and follow-up requests throughout the licensing review process.
• Maintain organized records of approved assets, supporting materials, and final submission files.

Merchandise, Talent & Logo Development

Support project management for AAA merchandise in