Job Summary:

Suns Legacy Partners includes several companies and many different departments that support the Phoenix Suns, Phoenix Mercury and Footprint Center.

Would you like to win championships and create sustained success? Suns Legacy Partners is looking for individuals that are committed to pursuing excellence and be part of creating memorable experiences.

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Project Manager, Creative & Content to join our Centercourt Studios team, primarily responsible for managing and executing delivery of graphic design and video projects, supporting our advertising, brand development, and partner campaigns. You will play a critical role in creative campaign development from conception to execution, working closely with cross-functional teams, freelancers, and vendors, ensuring work aligns with the creative direction, is delivered on time, and is within scope, and on brief. Daily focuses include end-to-end project management, from leading standup meetings, project scoping, resource allocation, managing the project calendar, monitoring timelines and deliverables, communicating status updates, and delivering final projects and post-mortem summaries.

What Will You Do:

• Works closely with creative and video content production leadership to assign and monitor deliverables and hold the team accountable to the established budgets and timelines.
• Establishes and manages project scope; including ensuring project briefs are created and include specific goals.
• Develop project plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish work in support of business priorities.
• Works with Integrated Marketing team leadership to understand the vision, scope, and goals of each project.
• Establishes meeting structure; manages project kickoff and status update meetings.
• Collaborates with team members, cross-functional stakeholders, and partners to execute project objectives.
• Streamlines and manages communication to internal project team members, as well as project stakeholders and clients.
• Monitors project progress, identifies and escalates project roadblocks, proposes solutions to address project issues/delays, and solicits feedback; escalates to senior leaders, as needed.
• Delivers project updates and final project summaries to stakeholders.
• Work with in-house and vendor printers to ensure delivery of environmental graphics project requests.
• Manage creative project delivery for integrated marketing campaigns – aligning Creative, Motion & Content teams with dependent timelines.
• Provides ongoing status updates to share progress against established goals, gaps, and support needs to maintain progress against project plans.

What We Need From Our Project Manager, Creative & Content:

• Communicates in a clear and concise manner.
• Actively solicits stakeholder feedback and responds to concerns in a timely manner.
• Convey written and verbal messages that effectively inform and drive collaboration.
• Proactively take action, holding self, and others accountable.
• Be agile and prepared to quickly adapt when priorities unexpectedly shift.
• The ability to remove barriers and work in partnership across organizational boundaries to accomplish goals.
• Build trusted cross-functional relationships across the Integrated Marketing team, and wider organization.
• Anticipate and fully service the needs of stakeholders, including colleagues, partners, and consumers.
• The ability to develop expertise in project management platforms, helping the organization evolve with processes and workflows.  

Experience/ Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 4+ years project management and/or consulting expertise preferred, specifically in an agency or brand environment, supporting creative and content projects
• Knowledge of cross-functional creative processes and production processes.
• Extensive experience with project management tools like Asana, Monday.com, JIRA, Wrike, etc.
• Solid understanding of the creative development and video production processes, including timelines and delivery windows.
• Understanding of the creative and video formats – PSD, EPS, PDF, PNG, MOV, MP4, JPEGs
• Basic graphic/production skills
• Understanding of the Adobe creative suite including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, After Effects, Blender, Cinema 4D

What You Can Expect:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by a teammate to optimally perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Flexible schedule to include weekends, evenings, and some holidays to meet business needs.
• Ability to transit throughout the arena for long periods of time.
• Occasional travel from time to time for professional development
• This position works mainly indoors, removed from extreme weather; exposure to weather is <5%
• S-Sedentary Work – Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally.
• Position is predominately computer-based, requiring the use of a computer monitor.
• Must be able to carry on a conversation both on the phone and in-person.
• Ability to Read, Write & Speak in English
• Wide range of fulltime benefit options including
  • Medical, Dental and Vision coverages
  • Life and Disability options
  • Vacation, sick and holiday leave programs
  • In-arena work requirements with the potential of hybrid schedules based on each role and department.
• Perks:
  • Discounts at Fanatics Team Shop
  • Tickets available for Phoenix Suns, Phoenix Mercury and Rattlers games
• Visit our Culture page learn more about our culture and work environment