Creative Project Manager

We are looking for a Senior Creative Project Manager to lead our design team and drive every web design project from concept to launch. You will work directly with the Head of Project, our production manager, and a team of designers to ship pages that look exceptional and convert.

This role sits at the intersection of design, marketing, and execution. You are the person who keeps the design pipeline moving, develops the team behind it, and brings fresh creative thinking to everything we put out. The standard is high: stunning websites that perform, shipped fast.

This is a leadership role. You will own the design team’s workload, develop designers including team leads who report into you, and be accountable for both the quality of the output and the speed at which it gets there. The two things we measure above everything else are speed and quality.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

Design project leadership

• Lead web design projects end to end, from creative brief through launch, holding the line on quality and timeline
• Translate marketing and business goals into clear creative direction the design team can execute against
• Review work in progress, give sharp design and conversion feedback, and push the team to a higher standard
• Own the quality bar for everything that ships under your name

Traffic management for design workload

• Act as the central traffic manager for all design requests, briefs, and projects across the operation
• Allocate work across designers based on skill, capacity, and priority
• Track every active project, surface bottlenecks early, and rebalance the queue when priorities shift
• Make sure no brief sits unowned and no project loses momentum waiting on a decision

Team development and upscaling

• Manage and develop the design team, including leads who report into you
• Run regular reviews, give direct feedback, and build skill development plans for each designer
• Hire when needed and raise the bar with every addition
• Build a team culture where speed, quality, and craft are non-negotiable

Creative input and conversion thinking

• Bring fresh ideas, references, and creative direction into every project. You are not just managing, you are contributing
• Hold a strong point of view on what makes a page convert and apply it consistently
• Stay current on web design trends, conversion patterns, and what top operators are shipping
• Push back on briefs that will not perform, even when they come from above

Process and systems

• Build and maintain the systems that keep design moving: brief templates, review cycles, handoff to production, version control
• Document workflows so the team can scale without losing consistency
• Work closely with the production manager to ensure clean handoffs and no work gets stuck between design and build
• Identify where the pipeline is slow and fix it with process, not heroics

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Must-have:

• 4+ years in design project management, creative operations, or a similar leadership role at a fast-paced marketing agency or in-house team (exceptional candidates with less experience will be considered)
• Strong understanding of design fundamentals and web design specifically. You speak the language, give useful feedback, and tell good work from average
• Strong understanding of marketing and conversion. You know what makes a landing page perform, not just look nice
• Proven experience leading and developing a design team, not just coordinating one
• Demonstrated ability to traffic-manage a high volume of design work across multiple projects without quality slipping
• Excellent English, written and verbal (C2)
• AI-first operator. You use AI across your daily workflow — ideation, briefing, copy, research, project management, image generation, content production. This is your default mode of working, not an experiment. If you are not already running on AI, this role is not for you
• Fast, structured, and decisive. You make calls, give clear direction, and do not need every brief escalated
• Ownership mentality. You are accountable for the team’s output, not just your own

Nice to have:

• PM certification (PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum, or equivalent) or completed PM coursework
• Formal design education or design courses
• Hands-on Figma proficiency and familiarity with the broader design tool stack
• Experience integrating AI tools into a design team’s workflow (Midjourney, image generation, AI copy, automated briefing, AI-assisted design tools)
• Experience with Notion, ClickUp, Asana, or similar project management platforms
• Background in performance marketing, affiliate, newsletter, or media

WHO FITS THIS ROLE

You are a designer at heart who learned to run projects, or a project manager who fell in love with design. Either way, you cannot help but care about the work. You see a button that does not convert and it bothers you. You spot a bad layout in the wild and you know exactly why it is failing. You believe great design is a discipline, not a vibe, and you run your team that way. You are AI-first by instinct — you reach for AI before you reach for help, and you have already rebuilt parts of your workflow around it. You are calm under volume, sharp with feedback, and you raise the level of everyone around you without slowing them down. You ship.