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About the Role

The Creative Project Manager leads the execution of creative projects across multiple channels and stakeholders, partnering with Creative Account Leads on high-visibility initiatives and managing tactical projects independently. This role requires understanding business context, managing risk, and leading cross-functional execution across various channels, including paid media environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead project execution from kickoff through delivery.
• Develop and manage project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and approvals.
• Lead weekly status meetings, drive decisions, and ensure accountability.
• Proactively identify risks, troubleshoot issues, and adjust plans.
• Lead project close-out activities and retrospectives.
• Partner with Creative Account Leads on strategic initiatives, supporting planning and execution.
• Translate creative briefs into actionable execution plans.
• Provide clear visibility into project status, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Lead execution of tactical projects independently.
• Apply sound judgment and business understanding to guide decisions.
• Ensure work aligns with goals, messaging, and channel requirements.
• Coordinate execution across creative, content, digital, social, email, production, media, and external partners.
• Partner with paid media teams to manage creative delivery timelines, specifications, approvals, and handoffs.
• Create and maintain campaign and project working spaces for planning and alignment.
• Ensure deliverables across channels are aligned, sequenced appropriately, and ready for launch.
• Monitor project health across scope, timing, resourcing, and risk.
• Conduct regular project health checks and address issues proactively.
• Use retrospective insights to improve planning, execution, and team effectiveness.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in creative project management in an in-house or external creative agency.
• Proven experience managing creative work across multiple channels, including paid and organic social, email, digital, video, and print.
• Experience supporting creative execution within paid media campaigns, including working with media teams and managing creative handoffs.
• Strong organizational and communication skills with the ability to lead projects independently.
• Ability to balance structure with flexibility in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Comfort partnering with account, strategy, creative, and media teams.
• Proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with a strong sense of ownership.
• Experience in financial services, insurance, healthcare, or other regulated industries is a plus.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

Skills

• Creative Project Management
• Cross-channel coordination
• Cross-functional coordination
• Paid media campaign support
• Risk management
• Stakeholder management
• Communication skills
• Organizational skills
• Problem-solving

Location

• United States

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 8+ years

Salary/Compensations

• $103,450.00 - $169,960.00

Benefits

• Skill-building opportunities
• Leadership development opportunities
• Philanthropic opportunities
• Supportive and flexible work environment
• Contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources

About the Company

• At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals.
• Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.
• Guardian’s Purpose is to inspire well-being.
• Guardian Life is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.
• Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.
• Guardian may use artificial intelligence tools (“AI Tools") to automate the sorting and filtering of information provided by applicants as part of its preliminary screening.
• Guardian does not use AI Tools to substantially assist or replace human judgment or discretionary decision making in its hiring process.
• All hiring decisions will be made by Guardian colleagues.

Equal Opportunity

• Guardian is an equal opportunity employer.
• All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.