Jr. Creative Project Manager, Sparklabs

The Role:

AppLovin’s in-house creative team, SparkLabs, is looking for a Jr. Creative Project Manager. You would be joining a team that is responsible for creating a variety of video, graphic, and playable ad creatives designed for AppLovin’s clients. This is a great opportunity for a creative individual with solid project management and organizational skills to grow professionally in a fast-paced, highly collaborative work environment. The perfect candidate will be hungry to learn, extremely attentive to detail, and an enthusiastic, hard-working team player with some knowledge of digital marketing, mobile marketing, and/or ad tech!

Job Responsibilities:

• Liaise between cross functional teams (specifically: creative vendors, designers, and business teams) to ensure projects are delivered on time and meet expectations.
• Understand all facets of the project and write clear detailed creative briefs.
• Project Management
  • Understand all facets of the project and write clear detailed creative briefs.
  • Liaise between cross functional teams (specifically: creative vendors, designers, and business teams) to ensure projects are delivered on time and meet expectations.
  • Build and maintain a healthy pipeline of creative projects to meet business’ needs.
  • Update and maintain team resource pages and documentation.
  • Review deliverables from vendors and provide detailed creative feedback.
• Manage and mitigate day to day problems, ensuring strong and effective communication in difficult and time sensitive situations.
• Understand when (and why) to escalate issues and coordinate with all stakeholders to ensure next steps are aligned and completed.
• Build and maintain a healthy pipeline of creative projects to meet business’ needs.
• Update and maintain team resource pages and documentation.
• Manage communication and approvals between creative and business teams.
• Communications & Relationship Management
  • Build strong working relationships with SparkLabs stakeholders.
  • Manage communication and approvals between creative and business teams.
  • Be highly responsive to internal and external questions pertinent to the project.
  • Manage and mitigate day to day problems, ensuring strong and effective communication in difficult and time sensitive situations.
  • Understand when (and why) to escalate issues and coordinate with all stakeholders to ensure next steps are aligned and completed.
• Be highly responsive to internal and external questions pertinent to the project.
• Build strong working relationships with SparkLabs stakeholders.
• Review deliverables from vendors and provide detailed creative feedback.

Your Profile:

• Understanding of art, design, technical fundamentals and creative asset management.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, remote work environment.
• Proficiency in Google Suite, Asana, Confluence, Zoom, and other management tools.
• Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects
• Results oriented and interested in working with data to produce high-engagement ads.
• 1-2 years experience working in a project management role (preferably in a fast-paced creative agency or marketing team, managing multiple creative projects simultaneously).
• Organized, detail oriented, and exceptional communicator.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of marketing and a love of all things tech and mobile.
• Great interpersonal skills and an ability to humanize the process of project management.
• Basic understanding of the programmatic advertising ecosystem.
• Fast learner, creative and critical thinker.
• An eagerness to make the events process run smoothly and support all team members.
• An ability to work in the U.S. but coordinate with teams in other time zones.
• Experience building and managing projects in Asana.