Creative Production Manager
Location: Hybrid onsite schedule in Culver City, CA
Schedule: 40 hours
Duration: 5 months
Pay: $82-$85 DOE

The Planet Group is looking for a Creative Production Manager to join our well-known Fortune 500 client on a 5-months contract, working a hybrid schedule out of Culver City, CA. 

Creative Production Manager | Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in creative production, project management, or marketing operations ideally within entertainment, media, or creative agencies.
• Expertise in creative development of marketing campaigns across video, social, digital, paid, and international formats, with a strong understanding of how creative and marketing decisions impact workflow and timelines.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end post-production process for creating trailers and short form pieces.  
• Proven success leading high-profile campaigns, managing large budgets and tight timelines in fast-paced, high-volume environments.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with experience aligning diverse stakeholders around a shared production and marketing vision.
• Demonstrated ability to manage asset lifecycles, from creative development through delivery, while driving clarity and accountability at scale.
• Exceptional organizational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to juggle multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Outstanding communication skills, able to clearly present production updates, operational solutions, and budget insights to senior leadership.
• Advanced proficiency with workflow tools such as Airtable, Excel (or similar platforms), with the ability to design systems that increase visibility and efficiency.

Creative Production Manager | Description:

• Lead end-to-end campaign operations, driving communication between Creative Advertising, Marketing, and cross-functional partners to build and maintain detailed timelines with clear asset requirements and delivery milestones.
• Define and manage campaign budgets, forecast needs, build contingency plans, and align costs with both creative priorities and strategic marketing goals.
• Track production across all marketing touchpoints including trailers, TV spots, social, paid media, digital, international, and broadcast; ensuring deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and to spec.
• Partner with the Creative and Finishing team to prioritize assets, manage post-production workflows, and ensure alignment with creative and marketing decisions.
• Proactively troubleshoot production and post-production issues, escalating where needed to keep campaigns moving forward.
• Manage vendor and agency relationships from onboarding through invoicing, ensuring seamless day-to-day project management and financial oversight.
• Provide visibility into campaign performance and spending, articulating variances, rationales, and allocation decisions to senior stakeholders.
• Act as a strategic partner to creative leads, supporting campaign strategy with operational excellence, scalable solutions, and production insights.
• Surface key decisions and blockers to senior leadership, ensuring clarity, alignment, and accountability across all teams.