Creative Project Manager (Licensed Consumer Products), Fixed Term

Moonbug Entertainment•Los Angeles, CA

7h•$80,000 - $90,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Creative Project Manager drives the planning, coordination, tracking, and delivery of creative and product development initiatives across Moonbug Entertainment’s Consumer Products & Experiences division. The role partners with Creative and Product Development leadership to move projects from kickoff through development, approvals, final asset delivery, and launch. It serves as the central point for project workflow and visibility, helping teams understand priorities, timelines, dependencies, deliverables, approvals, and next steps while leaving creative direction, product strategy, and final decisions with the relevant leads. This is a six-month fixed-term role based on-site five days per week in Los Angeles. The position manages timelines, reviews, feedback, approvals, budgets, assets, and cross-functional coordination involving internal teams, agencies, licensees, vendors, and international partners. It also establishes scalable project processes and tracks milestones to improve visibility, accountability, and delivery.

Requirements

3–5+ years of experience in project management, creative operations, licensing, product development, or consumer products; ideally in entertainment, toys, kids/preschool, fashion, lifestyle, or another licensed-products environment.
General understanding of licensing production timelines, seasonal development calendars, packaging, style guides, product submissions, legal review, and asset management.
Comfort with approval and asset-sharing tools such as Flowhaven, Box, Monday.com, Airtable, or comparable workflow or digital asset management systems.
Knowledge of Mac OS X, Microsoft and Google suites, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, and Adobe programs including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
Ability to work under pressure and prioritize workload.
Ability to work across the needs of a global team.
Ability to manage creative budgets.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain timelines for seasonal style guides, packaging programs, product development, retail initiatives, and other creative projects; translate milestones into schedules, track dependencies, identify risks, and flag potential delays.
Manage the end-to-end operational flow of creative projects, schedule internal and external reviews, and ensure feedback is consolidated, actionable, and delivered to the appropriate creative or product development owner.
Develop and manage seasonal style-guide calendars covering creative development, agency deliverables, internal and legal reviews, revisions, finalization, and launch; track individual asset types and their status.
Work with external agencies and the internal legal team to develop and track proposals, including contract needs, through completion.
Track external agency invoices and creative budget spending, ensure asset needs remain within budget, and identify potential financial risks.
Track artwork development, structural needs, copy, legal requirements, stakeholder reviews, and final production assets.
Maintain records of approvals, outstanding comments, revisions, and decision owners; consolidate feedback from Brand, Creative, Product Development, Legal, Commercial, Retail, and external partners.
Manage organization, naming, version control, uploading, and release of approved assets in platforms such as Flowhaven and Box.
Manage creative timelines and deliverables involving licensees, agencies, vendors, and international partners.
Communicate asset availability, deadlines, approval status, and project requirements, escalating creative or product decisions to the appropriate team lead.
Serve as the operational liaison across Creative/Product Development, Commercial, Brand, Legal, Retail, and external partners; prepare status updates, meeting agendas, recaps, action items, and leadership-level reporting.
Work with Creative and Product Development leadership to understand workload, competing priorities, and resource needs; sequence projects based on business priorities and deadlines and identify capacity issues.
Establish scalable processes, templates, trackers, naming conventions, approval workflows, and project documentation; conduct retrospectives and recommend improvements.
Track and enforce Product Development process milestones and hold cross-functional team members accountable for deliverables and timing.