Creative Production Manager
Remote / Annual / Full time
The Best Friend's Mission is to do nothing short of making history by bringing about a time when there are No More Homeless Pets. Our goal is that every animal shelter in every community in the country be no kill by the end of 2025.
The fact is, we have a great culture, populated by fun, dedicated and brilliant people. But we're always looking for talented people who can help us make history, and that's where you come in. If you want to be a part of history and end the killing of shelter pets by 2025, apply today for one of our open job opportunities!

Location: Remote

Hiring Range: This position’s hiring range is anticipated to be $70,000 to $75,000 annually, depending on experience, plus great benefits!

Interviews will occur weekly until the position is filled.

Summary: The Creative Production Managercollaborates with an outstanding group of creatives, outside agencies and Best Friends departments to ensure creative assets are optimized and innovative across all channels.The Creative Production Manager will work collaborate with the Creative Director, Sr. Manager, Copywriting and Production, Designer Manager, and project requesters as needed, to establish creative strategiesfor high-performing campaigns that include written content, illustrations, photos, videos, and more.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Act as production manager for the creative team and system administrator for Workfront, the project management software used by the creative team. This includes having a complete understanding of all parts of the software, working with Creative Production Specialist to enable creative team members and requesters to use the software correctly and efficiently, troubleshooting any software issues.

  • Serve as administrator for Best Friends digital asset management creative hub, Widen DAM, and work with key stakeholders to maintain and organize the hub.

  • Meet with requesters throughout DXC to discuss and review their goals and wanted results for upcoming campaignsto help establishworkflow strategies, enabling the creative team to create the best content possible.

  • Manage the Creative Production Specialist

  • Work with theSr. Manager to conduct regular analysis of previous creative to inform future creative strategies.

  • Regularly meet with Best Friends channel leads to understand what is performing well, what needs improvement, where they see opportunity on their channels, and to bring new ideas from our team. Communicate those needs and opportunities in an actionable way to the Sr. Manager and creative team.

  • Work alongside the Creative Director to complete tasks as needed.

  • Lead the Creative Production Specialistto develop, implement, and maintain solutions to improve accessibility to creative materials throughout the organization.

Skills and Experience:

  • Minimum 5 years’ creative production management experience

  • Minimum 3 years of system administrator experience in an advanced project management tool like Workfront or Asana

  • Ability to work collaboratively while managing multiple projects, competing priorities, and deadlines

  • Flexible and able to adapt quickly to a multitude of challenging projects across different departments

  • Strong interpersonal skills, including written and verbal communication

  • Proven time-management and organizational skills.

  • Demonstrate attention to detail

  • Skilled with MS Office and ability to learn company technology (Workfront, Widen DAM, Fetch, Canva, etc.)

  • Bi-lingual in English/Spanish is a plus

Physical Requirements:

  • Must be able to sit, type, look, and work at a computer screen for extended periods of time with repetitive typing, arm and hand motion

  • Ability to travel to the Sanctuary and other Best Friends center locations several times a year

Thank you for your interest in pursuing a career at Best Friends Animal Society.  Best Friends Animal Society is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, or domestic partner status.

Applicants for employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by Best Friends Animal Society.

Culture Statement and Responsibility
We value attitude over aptitude, and we treat Kindness as a discipline because it is paramount in our culture along with our other Guiding Principles. Culture is how we talk to and treat ourselves and one another, it's how we generate and respond to change, it's how we plan and make decisions, it's how we do what we do.
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About Best Friends

Best Friends recently received a 2022 Top Workplaces USA award from Energage.

Visit the Best Friends Animal Society page on the Energage Top Workplaces award winners' site here to learn more. Not only do we take pride in cultivating a welcoming and supportive community and culture for our employees, but we also offer competitive benefits that make it easy to see why we were granted such an awesome award! We offer competitive pay including the opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on performance. We offer medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, short and long-term disability, dependent care reimbursement, pet sitting reimbursement when traveling for work, flexible spending account, and health savings account. We offer generous paid time off up to 9 hours per month for full time employees, nine paid holidays annually, auto insurance discount, and legal and identity theft coverage.  For added well-being support, we offer Pawternity Leave for employees to have time to care for their personal pets, mental health support, and an employee assistance program. We also offer a generous 401k savings plan. Do you want to love where you work and make history and end the killing of shelter pets by 2025? Look no further and apply today!

Thank you for your interest in pursuing a career at Best Friends Animal Society. Best Friends Animal Society is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, or domestic partner status. Applicants for employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by Best Friends Animal Society.

 

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