Project Manager

Reposted 21 Days Ago
Naperville, IL, USA
In-Office
75K-90K Annually
Mid level
Digital Media • News + Entertainment • Professional Services • Design
Full-Stack Post-Production for Modern Entertainment
The Role
Manage end-to-end project lifecycle for creative, production, and post-production work: maintain timelines and BigTime records, track risks and action items, facilitate meetings, coordinate cross-functional and client communication, and recommend process improvements to ensure projects meet scope, deadlines, and deliverables.
Summary Generated by Built In

Position Overview

Creative Dynamic is seeking a highly organized, proactive Project Manager to oversee the project lifecycle for creative, production, and post-production work across the company. This role will be responsible for managing project scope, schedules, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, stakeholder communication, and follow-through across internal teams and client-facing work.

The ideal candidate understands project management fundamentals and can bring structure to a fast-moving creative environment without slowing down the work. This person should be comfortable maintaining project plans, tracking risks and open issues, facilitating meetings, documenting action items, managing cross-functional communication, and ensuring project information remains accurate in company systems.

Key Responsibilities

Project Tracking & Workflow Management

  • Manage project timelines, project plans, task lists, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables across active creative, production, and post-production projects.
  • Track project status, open issues, blockers, risks, dependencies, and next steps to ensure work continues moving forward.
  • Maintain clear visibility into priorities, deadlines, project scope, ownership, and cross-functional responsibilities.
  • Support resource planning and workflow coordination by helping track team capacity, project assignments, and upcoming deadlines.
  • Maintain accurate project information in BigTime as the working source of truth.

Meetings, Notes & Follow-Up

  • Facilitate and attend internal project meetings, capturing clear, actionable notes, decisions, risks, open issues, and next steps.
  • Translate meetings, client feedback, and internal conversations into documented action items, deadlines, owners, dependencies, and follow-ups.
  • Maintain accountability by following up with team members on assigned tasks, upcoming deadlines, and unresolved blockers.
  • Proactively escalate delays, risks, scope changes, unclear ownership, or resource constraints before they impact project timelines or deliverables.

Cross-Functional & Client Coordination 

  • Drive cross-functional alignment across creative, post-production, production, finance, leadership, and client-facing teams to ensure project scope, priorities, timelines, and deliverables remain clear and actionable.
  • Serve as the central coordination point for assigned projects, ensuring stakeholders have accurate information, decisions are documented, dependencies are visible, and follow-ups are tracked through completion.
  • Lead project status communication by preparing updates for internal stakeholders and communicating directly with clients regarding timelines, deliverables, approvals, outstanding needs, and project risks.
  • Manage client-facing follow-up with professionalism and clarity, ensuring external communication is accurate, timely, and aligned with internal leadership direction.
  • Help standardize cross-functional project communication, status reporting, documentation, and handoff processes as the company continues to grow.

Systems & Process Support

  • Maintain accurate project data, timelines, milestones, deliverables, resource assignments, and status updates in BigTime.
  • Help establish BigTime as the company’s working source of truth for project tracking, resource planning, time tracking, and workflow visibility.
  • Evaluate current project management workflows and identify gaps in process, communication, documentation, accountability, and system usage.
  • Recommend and support process improvements that strengthen project intake, planning, status reporting, handoffs, change management, and project closeout.
  • Partner with leadership and department leads to refine workflows as the company scales and project volume increases.

Required Qualifications

  • 3+ years of project management, operations, production coordination, post-production coordination, or creative operations experience.
  • Strong understanding of project management fundamentals, including scope, schedule, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, and stakeholder communication.
  • Experience maintaining project plans, tracking action items, managing timelines, and coordinating cross-functional teams.
  • Familiarity with project management methodologies, tools, and documentation practices.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in creative, media, production, post-production, agency, or entertainment environments.
  • Familiarity with post-production workflows, creative review processes, or production timelines.
  • Experience with BigTime, Smartsheet, Excel, or similar project/workflow systems.
  • Experience supporting cross-functional teams.
  • PMP, CAPM, Scrum, or other project management training/certification is a plus.

Success in This Role Looks Like

  • Project information is accurate, organized, and easy to find.
  • BigTime is consistently used as the working source of truth.
  • Meeting notes and action items are clear and timely.
  • Deadlines, blockers, and ownership are visible before they become problems.
  • Team members know what is expected of them and when.
  • Leadership has better visibility into project status and resource needs.
  • Creative teams feel supported, not micromanaged.

Skills Required

  • 3+ years of project management, operations, production coordination, post-production coordination, or creative operations experience.
  • Strong understanding of project management fundamentals (scope, schedule, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, stakeholder communication).
  • Experience maintaining project plans, tracking action items, managing timelines, and coordinating cross-functional teams.
  • Experience tracking project status, risks, blockers, dependencies, and next steps to maintain workflow momentum.
  • Familiarity with project management methodologies, tools, and documentation practices.
  • Experience in creative, media, production, post-production, agency, or entertainment environments.
  • Familiarity with post-production workflows, creative review processes, or production timelines.
  • Experience with BigTime, Smartsheet, Excel, or similar project/workflow systems.
  • PMP, CAPM, Scrum, or other project management training/certification.

Creative Dynamic LLC Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Creative Dynamic LLC and has not been reviewed or approved by Creative Dynamic LLC.

  • Healthcare Strength An expired job posting lists employer‑sponsored health insurance as part of the package. Presence of medical coverage indicates a baseline health benefit at this small studio.
  • Retirement Support A SIMPLE IRA is cited in the posting, and such plans typically include employer contributions by design. Offering a retirement vehicle signals foundational long‑term support for employees.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth PTO is explicitly mentioned alongside core benefits in the posting. Inclusion of paid time off establishes a basic time‑off structure.

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The Company
12 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Creative Dynamic is a Naperville-based post-production company creating documentary, unscripted, branded, and digital content. We support projects through editorial, finishing, delivery, and related post-production workflows, helping bring stories from raw footage to final cut. Our team works across multiple active edits, deliverables, deadlines, and client needs at the same time. We combine creative storytelling with structured post-production workflows, helping projects move from raw footage through editorial, finishing, and final delivery.

Why Work With Us

Creative Dynamic offers the opportunity to work inside a small, hands-on post-production team where individual contributions have a visible impact. Because we manage multiple active edits, deliverables, review cycles, and deadlines at once, team members are trusted to help shape the systems and workflows that keep projects moving.

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