{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"193d8a2a73e03dde6cb536b8","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/193d8a2a73e03dde6cb536b8","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/193d8a2a73e03dde6cb536b8","title":"Creative Project Manager","description":"POSITION DESCRIPTION\n\nTitle & Reporting Relationships\n\nPosition Title:\n\nCreative Project Manager\n\nReports to:\n\nCMO\n\nDepartment:\n\nMarketing\n\nOversees:\n\nNo Direct Reports\n\nInteractions:\n\nCreative/ ecomm/ marketing\n\nMain Purpose and Major Challenges of the Role\n\nOuterknown, Firewire Surfboards, and Slater Designs is seeking a highly organized, proactive, and collaborative Creative Project Manager to help drive operational excellence across our marketing and brand organization. This role sits at the intersection of creative development, go-to-market execution, and systems/process management—ensuring that campaigns, assets, and cross-functional deliverables move efficiently and effectively from concept to launch.\n\nYou will be the connective tissue across Marketing, Creative, Ecommerce, Wholesale, Product, and International teams—building scalable processes, managing timelines, owning our digital asset ecosystem, and ensuring flawless delivery of go-to-market tools and assets to internal teams and external partners.\n\nThis is an ideal role for someone who loves building order from complexity, thrives in fast-paced environments, and has a passion for operational rigor paired with high emotional intelligence and the ability to mange multiple priorities.\n\nACCOUNTABILITY:\n\nProject & Process Management\n\nOwn and manage the end-to-end marketing and creative workflow—from intake and prioritization through launch and post-mortem.\nBuild and maintain clear project timelines, calendars, and cross-functional workflows across seasonal and campaign initiatives.\nLead weekly project status meetings and ensure accountability across teams and deadlines.\nIdentify process gaps and proactively create scalable systems, SOPs, and operating rhythms to improve efficiency and visibility.\nSupport resource planning and help prioritize work across multiple teams and initiatives.\nStreamline asset management workflows to improve cross-functional accessibility, ensuring teams can locate, share and utilize creative resources within the DAM.\n\nACCOUNTABILITY:\n\nGo-to-Market Operations\n\nSupport development and execution of Outerknown & Firewire go-to-market process across seasonal launches, campaigns, and product stories.\nManage the creation of GTM calendars in XLS and Asana.\nEnsure all teams submit briefs in a timely manner and with enough detail.\nEnsure timely delivery of all go-to-market materials to key stakeholders including Wholesale, International, Retail, and Ecommerce teams.\nManage distribution of launch assets, product storytelling tools, campaign toolkits, and sales enablement materials to regional and channel partners.\nMaintain launch calendars and milestone checkpoints to ensure cross-functional alignment.\nLead the monthly go-to-market meeting with a 30-60-90 view approach.\nBuild a post mortem review for all data and qualitative feedback for future learnings.\n\nACCOUNTABILITY:\n\nCreative Development Support\n\nPartner closely with the Creative team to manage timelines, reviews, approvals, and production milestones.\nSupport briefing, routing, and approvals for photo/video, campaign creative, retail assets, and digital deliverables.\nHelp ensure creative work is delivered on time, on brand, and aligned to business priorities.\nLeverage Asana, our project management tool, to the fullest. Ensuring it’s organized in a way that’s easy to use for briefing, reviews and file delivery for all parties.\nOwn framework and compliance of required approvals before launch.\nServe as the central point interdepartmentally to speed up briefing and asset delivery.\n\nACCOUNTABILITY:\n\nCross-Functional Collaboration\n\nAct as a key liaison between Marketing, Creative, Product, Ecommerce, Wholesale, International, and external partners.\nContribute to the development and execution of brand activations\nSupport the CMO in marketing department meetings\nImprove communication flow and ensure stakeholders have visibility into timelines, dependencies, and deliverables.\nBring operational discipline while maintaining flexibility in a fast-moving environment.\nTrade Marketing Support. Working with 3rd party vendors on costing and production of materials, budget and on-time asset delivery.\nMaintain strong communication on requested assets for retail and wholesale partners.\n\nESSENTIAL SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS\n\n5+ years of experience in project management, marketing operations, creative operations, or go-to-market management, preferably in fashion, retail, or consumer brands.\nStrong experience managing cross-functional marketing and creative workflows.\nHands-on experience with Digital Asset Management systems (Bynder preferred).\nStrong knowledge of project management tools such as Asana, Monday.com, Airtable, or similar. (Asana preferred)\nExceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills.\nComfortable working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.\nPassion for brand storytelling, product, and operational excellence.\nExperience supporting apparel or lifestyle brands preferred.\nFamiliarity with ecommerce workflows and digital content publishing.\nExperience building new processes and systems from the ground up.\nUnderstanding of wholesale and international marketing support needs","company":"Outerknown","rawCompany":"outerknown","city":"Carlsbad","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-07-27T23:48:45.574Z","occupations":[{"code":"11-2021.00","title":"Marketing Managers","slug":"marketing-managers"},{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"},{"code":"13-1161.00","title":"Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists","slug":"market-research-analysts-and-marketing-specialists"}],"industries":[{"code":"541890","title":"Other Services Related to Advertising","slug":"other-services-related-to-advertising"},{"code":"541810","title":"Advertising Agencies","slug":"advertising-agencies"},{"code":"541613","title":"Marketing Consulting Services","slug":"marketing-consulting-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Creative Project Manager","description":"POSITION DESCRIPTION\n\nTitle & Reporting Relationships\n\nPosition Title:\n\nCreative Project Manager\n\nReports to:\n\nCMO\n\nDepartment:\n\nMarketing\n\nOversees:\n\nNo Direct Reports\n\nInteractions:\n\nCreative/ ecomm/ marketing\n\nMain Purpose and Major Challenges of the Role\n\nOuterknown, Firewire Surfboards, and Slater Designs is seeking a highly organized, proactive, and collaborative Creative Project Manager to help drive operational excellence across our marketing and brand organization. This role sits at the intersection of creative development, go-to-market execution, and systems/process management—ensuring that campaigns, assets, and cross-functional deliverables move efficiently and effectively from concept to launch.\n\nYou will be the connective tissue across Marketing, Creative, Ecommerce, Wholesale, Product, and International teams—building scalable processes, managing timelines, owning our digital asset ecosystem, and ensuring flawless delivery of go-to-market tools and assets to internal teams and external partners.\n\nThis is an ideal role for someone who loves building order from complexity, thrives in fast-paced environments, and has a passion for operational rigor paired with high emotional intelligence and the ability to mange multiple priorities.\n\nACCOUNTABILITY:\n\nProject & Process Management\n\nOwn and manage the end-to-end marketing and creative workflow—from intake and prioritization through launch and post-mortem.\nBuild and maintain clear project timelines, calendars, and cross-functional workflows across seasonal and campaign initiatives.\nLead weekly project status meetings and ensure accountability across teams and deadlines.\nIdentify process gaps and proactively create scalable systems, SOPs, and operating rhythms to improve efficiency and visibility.\nSupport resource planning and help prioritize work across multiple teams and initiatives.\nStreamline asset management workflows to improve cross-functional accessibility, ensuring teams can locate, share and utilize creative resources within the DAM.\n\nACCOUNTABILITY:\n\nGo-to-Market Operations\n\nSupport development and execution of Outerknown & Firewire go-to-market process across seasonal launches, campaigns, and product stories.\nManage the creation of GTM calendars in XLS and Asana.\nEnsure all teams submit briefs in a timely manner and with enough detail.\nEnsure timely delivery of all go-to-market materials to key stakeholders including Wholesale, International, Retail, and Ecommerce teams.\nManage distribution of launch assets, product storytelling tools, campaign toolkits, and sales enablement materials to regional and channel partners.\nMaintain launch calendars and milestone checkpoints to ensure cross-functional alignment.\nLead the monthly go-to-market meeting with a 30-60-90 view approach.\nBuild a post mortem review for all data and qualitative feedback for future learnings.\n\nACCOUNTABILITY:\n\nCreative Development Support\n\nPartner closely with the Creative team to manage timelines, reviews, approvals, and production milestones.\nSupport briefing, routing, and approvals for photo/video, campaign creative, retail assets, and digital deliverables.\nHelp ensure creative work is delivered on time, on brand, and aligned to business priorities.\nLeverage Asana, our project management tool, to the fullest. Ensuring it’s organized in a way that’s easy to use for briefing, reviews and file delivery for all parties.\nOwn framework and compliance of required approvals before launch.\nServe as the central point interdepartmentally to speed up briefing and asset delivery.\n\nACCOUNTABILITY:\n\nCross-Functional Collaboration\n\nAct as a key liaison between Marketing, Creative, Product, Ecommerce, Wholesale, International, and external partners.\nContribute to the development and execution of brand activations\nSupport the CMO in marketing department meetings\nImprove communication flow and ensure stakeholders have visibility into timelines, dependencies, and deliverables.\nBring operational discipline while maintaining flexibility in a fast-moving environment.\nTrade Marketing Support. Working with 3rd party vendors on costing and production of materials, budget and on-time asset delivery.\nMaintain strong communication on requested assets for retail and wholesale partners.\n\nESSENTIAL SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS\n\n5+ years of experience in project management, marketing operations, creative operations, or go-to-market management, preferably in fashion, retail, or consumer brands.\nStrong experience managing cross-functional marketing and creative workflows.\nHands-on experience with Digital Asset Management systems (Bynder preferred).\nStrong knowledge of project management tools such as Asana, Monday.com, Airtable, or similar. (Asana preferred)\nExceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills.\nComfortable working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.\nPassion for brand storytelling, product, and operational excellence.\nExperience supporting apparel or lifestyle brands preferred.\nFamiliarity with ecommerce workflows and digital content publishing.\nExperience building new processes and systems from the ground up.\nUnderstanding of wholesale and international marketing support needs","datePosted":"2026-07-27T23:48:45.574Z","dateModified":"2026-07-27T23:48:45.574Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Outerknown","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Carlsbad","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"193d8a2a73e03dde6cb536b8"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/193d8a2a73e03dde6cb536b8"}}