Coordinator, Project Management - Creative Services

Join the hundreds of talented and innovative team members who are making an impact every day at California Times, incorporating Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune, two of the most iconic media brands in the nation. Whether you love to tell compelling stories or want to drive our award-winning powerhouse in new directions, the Los Angeles Times team is the place to be.
Summary
This role will support the Creative Services team and ensure that marketing, brand, and product assets and campaigns are delivered at the highest possible level within clearly constructed and communicated time frames. This individual will be comfortable in a dynamic environment frequently in flux between internal and external executions across the entire portfolio of the California News Group, events, POS, internal marketing, subscriber retention/acquisition, co-op branding, and many more formats. This individual is process driven and exacting and knows how to get the best from Creative Teams. This individual is a self-starter who works well with others and is able to work in a fast-paced environment.

Main Job Responsibilities:

• Communicate with stakeholders to take clear concise notes and relay them back to the internal creative team.
• Ensuring that all creative work is executed on time and without error.
• Ensures projects stay on schedule, communicating deadlines to team members and stakeholders. Understands processes and ensures the resources to meet deadlines.
• Communicates directly with individual team members to reiterate scheduled deliverables, relay revision requests, record the job’s progress, and address obstacles as they arise.
• Manages project communications internally and between all departments.
• Manages small-to-large-scale projects with various disciplines and stakeholders.
• Tracks issues and works with the Sr. Project Manager to manage the impact of the project.
• Create, update and maintain daily internal and external client project schedules.

Job Requirements

• Must be a team player with a results-oriented focus.
• Must be detail-oriented, resourceful and can follow directions.
• Must have a basic understanding of the graphic design process and familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite, Print, Digital, and out-of-home experience.
• Must have outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Critical thinker who can make smart decisions.
• Self-starter who excels in multitasking, prioritization, and working effectively under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Must have strong organizational and analytical skills with the ability to contribute on multiple projects at once.
• Must be able to prioritize and jump from task to task while coordinating with those around you.
• 2-4 years of experience working in project/campaign management or creative services role in media, digital, or post-production related fields.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Experience in Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
• Project Management Certification.

The L.A. Times is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes expressions of interest from people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Explore our company history, achievement, values, mission and more on our career site.
The pay scale for this position is $51,600-$59,500. This is the pay scale range the Company reasonably expects to pay for this position at the time of this posting. Compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position. Please visit our career site to view the benefits available to our employees.
The Company is a mandatory vaccination employer for COVID-19 and its variants. The Company requires that its employees be fully vaccinated as of their start date. If you require a medical or religious accommodation, we will engage in the interactive process with you. Proof of vaccination will be required prior to start. If we make you an offer and you are not yet vaccinated, we will accommodate a delay in start date.

Thank you for your interest in joining our team at the Los Angeles Times! We look forward to reviewing your application.