Teams at TED Conferences

Manages concurrent creative projects and workflows for TED’s Brand Creative team. Responsibilities include prioritizing schedules, coordinating stakeholders and vendors, writing creative briefs, managing budgets and timelines, facilitating meetings, addressing risks, tracking changes, and leading project debriefs. The role requires strong knowledge of creative processes spanning design, branding, photography, motion graphics, and illustration, along with excellent communication, negotiation, organization, and problem-solving skills.

Supports media relations, journalist pitching, press materials, storytelling, newsletter and web content, social media, editorial calendars, and communications planning for a philanthropic social-impact initiative. Partners with grantees and internal teams to identify compelling narratives, strengthen brand visibility, communicate impact, and maintain a consistent voice across audiences and channels.

Conduct industry research, build prospect lists, manage inbound leads, and perform initial outreach to identify partnership opportunities. Support Partnership Managers with proposals, pitch decks, RFP responses, media plans, and creative concepts. Coordinate pricing, specifications, inventory, CRM updates, campaign handoffs, ad operations communication, creative QA, troubleshooting, reporting, recaps, and renewal strategies.