About the Role
Expedia Group's Integrated Marketing and Creative team is seeking a Senior B2B Creative Project Manager to manage creative workflow, operational excellence, project management, forecasting, and resource allocation. This role involves developing innovative global marketing strategies and ensuring the flawless execution of B2B creative projects.
Responsibilities
- Steward day-to-day project management of multiple brand design projects, serving as primary point of contact with creatives, business partners, stakeholders and leaders.
- Work with business partners and stakeholders to ensure accurate briefs are provided, digging in to understand the creative team’s ask within each brief.
- Build project workback schedules for each of your projects and share with the appropriate creative team, business partners and stakeholders.
- Anticipate and manage potential blockers across concept development, production, and delivery phases; flag to appropriate partners and proactively find solutions.
- Maintain detailed, clear, and proactive organization of your projects in project management software (Jira, Smartsheet, etc.), be the driving force to ensure creative is approved and delivered on time.
- Set up and lead project kick-off meetings, creative review meetings, and leadership review meetings; take and distribute detailed notes and action items in a timely manner.
- Operate with a sense of urgency and proactiveness to ensure work is completed according to deadlines.
- Maintain a high level of attention to detail, reviewing all work to ensure legal compliance and accuracy across all creative updates and revisions.
- Manage localization and relevant trackers to ensure creative is versioned properly.
- Partner with business leaders to develop annual and quarterly forecasting and resource planning, incorporating AI-owned, contracted, and FTE capacity into resourcing models.
- Manage project intake for your line of business, assessing resourcing and prioritization needs.
- Report regularly on team capacity and utilization to support proactive resourcing and prioritization calls with business leaders.
- Maintain a real-time view of team capacity and workload across creatives and freelancers, flagging over- or under-allocation to inform resourcing decisions.
- Architect creative workflow processes and agentic tools, partnering with Creative Tech to build repeatable AI-enabled workflows that drive efficiency for the PM function and Creative team.
- Triage and route project intake across human, hybrid, and AI-enabled production paths based on repeatability, timeline, and brand risk.
- Establish and maintain RACI for projects involving AI-assisted production, ensuring clear ownership across creative, Creative Tech, and business stakeholders.
- Define and enforce human-in-the-loop QA checkpoints for AI-generated or AI-assisted creative before it reaches stakeholder or legal review.
- Own naming conventions, asset taxonomy, and DAM hygiene to support AI-enabled versioning, reuse, and performance measurement.
- Support creative team enablement on new AI tools and workflows — documentation, training sessions, and troubleshooting first-line support.
Requirements
- A project management professional with 6+ years experience in creative project management within an agency or brand-side creative organization.
- Well versed managing creative delivery across all channels (brand guidelines, email, web, programmatic, CRM, OOH, print, etc.).
- Familiar with managing a large cross-functional team of stakeholders and driving alignment across all aspects of a creative project.
- An effective and concise communicator.
- Proven success in large-scale projects that include multiple teams.
- Adept at managing vendor partnerships with agencies and freelancers.
- Resilient and constructive when faced with change; able to shift approaches when needed in response to unexpected events and circumstances.
- Thrives on maintaining organization, finding efficiencies, and building, improving, and simplifying processes.
- Experienced in working with project management software/tools, specifically Jira and Smartsheet.
- Experienced in working with presentation software/tools, specifically Claude, PPT, and Figma.
- Comfortable operating in node-based or agentic AI workflows (e.g., Figma Weave, Comfy-style tools).
- Experience standing up or improving RACI, governance, or QA frameworks for cross-functional production.
Skills
- Project Management
- Creative Workflow Management
- Operational Excellence
- Forecasting
- Resource Allocation
- Communication
- Organization
- Leadership
- AI-Enabled Workflows
- Jira
- Smartsheet
- Claude
- PPT
- Figma
- RACI
- Governance Frameworks
- QA Frameworks
Location
- Austin
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 6+ years experience in creative project management
Salary/Compensations
- $110,500.00 - $155,000.00
- Potential to increase pay up to $177,000.00 based on performance
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Paid time off
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness reimbursement
- Travel reimbursement
- Travel discounts
- International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership
About the Company
- Expedia Group helps travelers explore the world with confidence and ease through its consumer brands (Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo), B2B travel business, and travel advertising offerings.
- The company is powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology.
Equal Opportunity
- Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
