Design Project Manager
The Design Project Manager plays a pivotal role within the Design Team, overseeing projects from initial request through final delivery. Acting as the primary liaison between clients and designers, the Design Project Manager ensures seamless communication, manages project timelines and upholds creative standards. This role also involves optimizing internal workflows, maintaining project management systems and fostering collaboration to deliver high-quality, on-time results that reflect the team's creative excellence.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Turn creative project requests into actionable plans think schedules, timelines and deliverables, making sure everything runs like clockwork
- Work closely with talented teams, communicating clearly, solving problems on the fly and taking ownership of project management, from brief through to final delivery
- Own and maintain the project management system (Wrike). Provide regular reports on project status and timelines. Identify potential risks and gather information as needed to move projects forward
- Monitor and improve workload management. Schedule projects based on team capacity
- Facilitate clear and consistent communication between creative team and stakeholders
- Foster a collaborative and positive work environment
- Lead weekly status meetings to provide visibility and help move projects successfully throughout the process
- Serve as the day-to-day communication point between design team and internal departments and key stakeholders
- Ensure all tasks and projects are correctly set up in the project management tool, tagged and organized for proper tracking and coordination across departments
- Develop and maintain training documents and resources for the project management tool and processes. Provide in-person training and onboarding support
- Develop reports, dashboards, request forms and other assets in the project management system as needed for all departments and projects (including, but not limited to Design)
- Manage relationship and contract with project management tool vendor
- Available as needed during home Seahawks games or special events
Qualifications
The ideal candidate should be a strong communicator and proactive problem solver someone who works well with others and thrives at being the catalyst that ensures our processes meet strict timelines while also enabling creative excellenceHighly organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines and maintain attention to detail in fast-paced environmentsExperience working with Project Management software familiarity with Wrike is a plusExperience working with Adobe and similar professional creative software tools as related to project management tasksStrong verbal and written communication skills, with proven ability to build effective working relationshipsExperience working in a creative environment with a strong understanding of creative processes and deliverablesA self-starter, relationship-driven, dynamic team playerStrong attention to detail, innovative thinker and solution-oriented attitudeWillingness to learn new concepts, processes and receive feedbackEducation And / or Experience
Bachelor's degree from a college or university, or similar experience6+ years of experience in project management specifically working with design teams or creative servicesCompensation And Benefits
The salary range for this position is : $90,000 $110,000. The salary range applies to the current posting. The posted salary range may vary based on key factors including, but not limited to, education, job-related knowledge, experience and skill set.We offer excellent benefits, please view here :https : / / www.seahawks.com / about / employment / benefits