Freelance - Sr. Creative Project Manager

Tatcha•San Francisco, CA

1d•$65 - $70

About The Position

Tatcha is seeking a Freelance Senior Creative Project Manager to bring operational rigor and creative fluency to its Creative organization. The role owns Packaging projects from brief through artwork development, approvals, mechanical release, and final production handoff, while also managing other Creative initiatives across Brand, Digital, E-Commerce, and campaigns according to business priorities. The position partners with Creative Operations to build and improve Wrike workflows, templates, routing, approvals, and reporting. It reports to the Director, Creative Production & Operations. The successful candidate will bring sound operational judgment, understand how creative work moves through a complex organization, and create structure, clarity, and momentum without slowing work down. This is a freelance assignment: the selected candidate will be employed by Tatcha’s staffing agency partner and assigned to Tatcha. The expected hourly rate is $65.00–$70.00, determined by factors including experience, skills, education, geographic location, and budget.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in creative project management, creative operations, packaging project management, or a related discipline.
Strong experience managing Packaging projects from concept through artwork development, mechanical release, and production.
Proficiency in Wrike, with demonstrated experience building and optimizing workflows, templates, routing, approvals, timelines, and reporting.
Exceptional organizational and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams while maintaining attention to detail.
Ability to work independently, adapt quickly, and bring others along.
Strong cross-functional instincts and comfort working across brand, marketing, e-commerce, design, and copy teams globally.

Nice To Haves

Experience in beauty, skincare, cosmetics, fragrance, luxury, or consumer goods.

Responsibilities

Manage assigned Creative initiatives end to end, from intake and briefing through execution and final delivery.
Manage complex Creative projects across multiple workstreams, primarily focusing on Packaging.
Build and manage realistic timelines, milestones, dependencies, and critical delivery dates.
Ensure briefs, inputs, and requirements are complete and actionable before work begins.
Coordinate reviews, feedback, approvals, routing, and final handoffs across Creative and cross-functional partners.
Manage concurrent workstreams and proactively identify risks, delays, scope changes, or resource conflicts.
Challenge unrealistic timelines and drive clear decisions about priorities, ownership, sequencing, and deliverables.
Lead Packaging project operations, aligning cross-functional teams on timelines, ownership, routing, and key decisions.
Manage Packaging inputs and dependencies, including copy, translations, dielines, whites, mechanicals, proofs, and final production files.
Partner with Creative, Product Development, Engineering, Procurement, Regulatory, Legal, Production, and Brand Marketing.
Manage artwork routing and approvals, ensuring the appropriate stakeholders are involved at the right stages.
Surface missing inputs, conflicting information, and risks before they affect timing, quality, or cost.
Support final artwork release and production handoff.
Manage selected Creative projects across Brand, Digital, E-Commerce, campaigns, and other business priorities based on team needs and capacity.
Provide clear visibility to Creative and cross-functional teams about project status, risks, decisions, and upcoming milestones.
Partner with Creative Operations to build, test, and improve Wrike workflows for Packaging and broader Creative projects.
Help develop standardized templates, timelines, intake processes, routing, approvals, dashboards, and reporting.
Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, improve visibility, and reduce unnecessary review rounds or handoffs.