Senior Project Manager, Creative Studio

UNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION 1•Atlanta, GA

43d

About The Position

U.S. Soccer is seeking a highly organized, collaborative, and creatively minded Senior Project Manager to join our Creative Studio. This role is a critical operational partner, helping establish the systems, processes, and workflows that enable the team to do its best creative work. The role will manage projects from intake through delivery, connecting creative teams with Brand Marketing, Content, Social, Partnerships, Events, Communications, and other stakeholders to ensure priorities, timelines, resources, and expectations remain clear. The ideal candidate is an experienced creative project manager and producer who understands how creative work gets made. They can translate a brief into a clear plan, build realistic timelines and workstreams, identify dependencies and risks, coordinate internal and external resources, manage approvals, and keep complex projects moving in a fast-paced environment. While the role leans heavily into creative operations and project management, a strong understanding of creative production is essential. This person should be comfortable jumping into production details when needed: from managing vendors and production partners to supporting photo/video shoots, creating production schedules, coordinating logistics, and ensuring final deliverables meet the creative and brand standard. This is a hands-on role for someone who brings structure and keeps creative work flowing.

Requirements

5–7+ years of experience in creative project management, creative operations, production, or a related discipline.
Demonstrated experience managing complex, integrated creative work across brand, digital, social, video, content, and design.
Strong project management fundamentals including scoping, scheduling, resourcing, budgeting, risk management, and stakeholder alignment.
Experience managing multiple projects and priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced creative environment.
Advanced proficiency in Airtable or comparable project/workflow management platforms.
Experience managing external vendors, freelancers, agencies, or production partners.
Strong understanding of creative development and production processes.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to lead meetings, document decisions, manage feedback, and drive approvals.
Ability to anticipate problems, identify dependencies, and proactively develop solutions.
Must be able to connect “micro” details to the “macro” vision and mission.
Proficient experience with Microsoft Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook) and Google Workspace.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting sports marketing.
Basic knowledge of soccer and U.S. Soccer
Familiarity with brand identity systems and maintaining consistency across diverse executions.
Working knowledge of usage rights and licensing considerations where relevant.

Responsibilities

Own the day-to-day project management of Creative Studio work from intake through final delivery.
Manage the Creative Studio intake process, gathering requirements, clarifying objectives, confirming deliverables, and ensuring briefs are actionable and production-ready.
Translate creative briefs into clear project plans, timelines, workstreams, milestones, owners, and deliverables.
Develop and maintain workback schedules and project trackers across multiple concurrent projects.
Establish clear priorities, dependencies, decision points, and approval processes.
Monitor project health, proactively identify risks or blockers, and develop practical solutions to keep work moving.
Lead project status meetings, communicate next steps, document decisions, and maintain accountability across teams.
Help balance competing priorities and resources across the Creative Studio.
Protect creative teams from unnecessary operational drag while ensuring stakeholders have visibility into progress.
Identify opportunities to improve Creative Studio processes, workflows, tools, and ways of working.
Help build scalable creative operations practices that support the growth of the U.S. Soccer Creative Studio.
Serve as a central point of coordination between Creative and Brand Marketing, Content, Social, Partnerships, Events, Communications, and other Federation teams.
Partner with creative leads to understand scope, creative needs, resourcing, and production requirements.
Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners, bringing clarity to complex projects and competing needs.
Manage feedback and approvals, ensuring the right stakeholders are engaged at the right moments.
Clearly communicate project status, decisions needed, risks, and changes in scope or timing.
Help translate creative strategy and direction into executable plans without compromising creative ambition.
Support production of integrated brand campaigns, content, events, and other high-priority Federation moments.
Lead production planning when projects require photo, video, experiential, or other external production support.
Develop production schedules, call sheets, shot lists, crew briefs, itineraries, production books, and other materials as needed.
Coordinate production logistics including locations, vendors, talent/player needs, usage considerations, post-production schedules, and delivery specifications.
Manage digital, social, video, design, and campaign deliverables, including cutdowns, versioning, localization, and partner adaptations.
Coordinate with creative teams and production partners to ensure work is delivered to the expected creative and brand standards.
Step into hands-on production management when project needs require it.
Own and maintain accurate project information, timelines, trackers, documentation, and workflow records.
Maintain strong working fluency in Airtable and Microsoft Office.
Help establish and maintain Creative Studio PMO processes and standards.
Look for opportunities to streamline repetitive processes, improve visibility, and create efficiencies across the team.
Ensure project documentation and status information are clear, current, and accessible to the appropriate stakeholders.
Source, onboard, and manage external vendors, freelancers, and production partners as needed.
Coordinate photographers, videographers, production crews, stylists, fabricators, and other creative resources.
Support project scoping, estimates, SOWs, POs, budgets, and invoice tracking in partnership with internal teams.
Help determine the appropriate internal and external resources needed to deliver projects successfully.
Track project budgets and flag potential scope or cost issues early.
Ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and at the quality bar expected for a national brand.
Maintain a strong understanding of U.S. Soccer's brand identity and creative standards.
Protect creative integrity while balancing timelines, budgets, resources, and operational realities.
Ensure final deliverables are accurate, complete, properly reviewed, and ready for launch or distribution.