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About the Role
Major League Soccer (MLS) is seeking a Senior Manager, Creative to lead creative initiatives across campaigns, match promotion, events, and digital experiences. This role connects Creative Strategy, Design, and Creative Operations, driving project execution, collaboration, and scaling creative output through efficient processes and tools.
Responsibilities
- Lead high-priority creative initiatives from intake through final delivery, managing project planning, timelines, approvals, stakeholder communication, and execution.
- Drive scalable creative production across priority campaigns and daily work initiatives, ensuring efficient execution across channels and stakeholders.
- Apply a brand-centric lens to ensure creative solutions align with campaign objectives and maintain consistency across all fan-facing touchpoints.
- Partner with Creative Strategy and Marketing requestors to translate insights, positioning, campaign objectives, and business priorities into actionable briefs and execution timelines.
- Work closely with marketing, content, social, and production teams to translate needs into effective design and creative solutions.
- Serve as the central point of coordination for designers, freelancers, production partners, and cross-functional stakeholders throughout the creative process for key initiatives.
- Partner closely with Creative Operations to improve and manage creative intake, prioritization, and project planning, and delivery workflows while championing best practices in Asana across the Creative team.
- Identify opportunities to enhance creative workflows, adopt emerging tools, and implement scalable processes that improve team efficiency and creative output.
- Leverage Adobe Creative Suite to support creative production through file preparation, technical reviews, and final production-ready deliverables as needed.
- Support additional department initiatives and special projects, as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- 7+ years of experience required in creative project management, integrated marketing, creative operations, or an agency/in-house creative environment
- Advanced proficiency with Asana and creative project management workflows.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) with the ability to modify working files and support production tasks and technical review.
- Strong understanding of creative production workflows and channel specifications for creative work across social, digital, email, web, OOH, and print.
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and organizational skills, with proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, drive alignment, and maintain quality in fast-paced environments.
- Experience identifying and implementing workflow improvements, creative technologies, and AI-enabled tools that enhance team efficiency.
- Experience managing integrated creative work from intake through production and delivery.
- Highly collaborative, proactive, and solutions-oriented, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and influence cross-functional teams.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team environment.
- High-level of commitment to quality work products and organizational ethics, integrity and
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate, both verbally and in writing
- Demonstrated decision making and problem-solving skills.
- High attention to detail with the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines with minimal supervision
- Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Skills
- Asana
- Creative project management workflows
- Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
- Creative production workflows
- Social media
- Digital
- Web
- OOH
- Communication
- Facilitation
- Stakeholder management
- Organizational skills
- Workflow improvements
- Creative technologies
- AI-enabled tools
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Outlook
- Professional sports
- Entertainment
- Media
- Consumer brand experience
- Managing process with internal creative teams
- Managing process with freelancers
- Managing process with external production partners
- Soccer knowledge
- Sports knowledge
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Four (4) day in-office schedule
- One (1) day remote
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- 7+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000 - $115,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- $500 wellness reimbursement
- Generous Holiday and PTO schedule
- On-the-job training
- Feedback
- Ongoing educational opportunities
About the Company
- Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional soccer league in the United States and Canada.
Equal Opportunity
- Major League Soccer is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
- Major League Soccer is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities throughout the application and hiring process, as well as during employment. Applicants who require an accommodation may contact Human Resources to request assistance.