Manage multiple consumer research studies from design through delivery, partnering with clients and internal teams to ensure high-quality results and improve research operations, workflows, and AI-powered tools.
Creative Resource Manager
π Description
- Plan resources across active and upcoming creative projects, maintaining visibility into availability, workloads, schedules, and capacity.
- Identify staffing gaps, scheduling conflicts, bottlenecks, and utilization trends before they affect delivery.
- Match team members to projects based on skills, experience, availability, and project needs.
- Partner with Creative Producers and creative leads to staff projects, new business opportunities, and shoots.
- Manage staffing changes as project scopes, timelines, and priorities shift.
- Maintain resource plans and build systems, trackers, and dashboards to improve staffing decisions.
π οΈ Requirements
- 3β5 years of experience in resource management, creative operations, project coordination, creative production, or a related field
- Strong understanding of creative production workflows, including pre-production, shoot execution, and post-production
- Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail
- Naturally proactive β you see potential problems before someone has to point them out
- Strong people skills and the ability to build trust with creatives, project leads, and leadership
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities and constantly changing timelines
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Able to make thoughtful decisions with incomplete information
- Resourceful, persistent, and comfortable working without a rigid playbook
- Comfortable with spreadsheets and quick to learn new tools
β¨ Benefits
- Play a central role in how a fast-growing creative studio operates
- Work across a wide range of production projects for ambitious technology companies
- Help build the staffing and resource systems the company will use as it scales
- Work closely with Creative Producers, creative leadership, and company leadership
- Take ownership of an important function with visibility across the entire studio
- Remote-friendly, flexible, and entrepreneurial environment
- Healthcare coverage
Full job description
Location
Must be based in the United States. LA/SF/NY preferred
About Nen Creative
Nen Creative partners with tech startups to launch bold ideas into the world, creating the brands and stories that fuel their growth.
Since 2022, we've partnered with some of the world's top founders and institutions, including Amazon, Andreessen Horowitz, Cursor, Mercor, Listen Labs, Tech Week, Cartesia, and many more.
We're growing quickly and looking for ambitious people who want to help build the company alongside us.
About the Role
We're looking for a Creative Resource Manager to own staffing, capacity planning, and scheduling across our creative studio.
You'll work closely with Creative Producers, creative leads, and company leadership to make sure every project has the right team in place at the right time. You'll maintain a clear view across active and upcoming work, understand where the team has capacity, identify conflicts before they become problems, and help us make smart staffing decisions as priorities shift.
This is a highly cross-functional role for someone who is exceptionally organized, proactive, and comfortable managing many moving pieces at once. You'll sit across the entire studio and become the source of truth for who is working on what, when, and where capacity is becoming constrained.
What You'll Do
Resource & Capacity Management
Own resource planning across all active and upcoming creative projects
Maintain a clear, up-to-date view of team availability, workload, project schedules, and upcoming capacity
Identify capacity gaps, scheduling conflicts, and potential bottlenecks before they become problems
Track utilization and help leadership understand where the team is over- or under-capacity
Anticipate future resource needs based on the studio's pipeline and upcoming work
Project Staffing & Scheduling
Match projects with the right internal team members based on skills, experience, availability, and project needs
Partner with Creative Producers and creative leads to understand staffing needs and build the right project teams
Support staffing for new business opportunities and incoming projects before work kicks off
Manage staffing changes as project scopes, timelines, and priorities shift
Coordinate internal staffing across shoots and maintain visibility into the studio-wide shoot calendar
Resource Planning Systems
Keep resource plans and staffing information accurate and up to date
Build and maintain simple systems, trackers, and dashboards for resource planning
Improve the processes we use to make staffing decisions faster and more transparent
Help leadership understand the resource impact of upcoming work before commitments are made
What We're Looking For
3β5 years of experience in resource management, creative operations, project coordination, creative production, or a related field
Strong understanding of creative production workflows, including pre-production, shoot execution, and post-production
Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail
Naturally proactive β you see potential problems before someone has to point them out
Strong people skills and the ability to build trust with creatives, project leads, and leadership
Comfortable managing multiple priorities and constantly changing timelines
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Able to make thoughtful decisions with incomplete information
Resourceful, persistent, and comfortable working without a rigid playbook
Comfortable with spreadsheets and quick to learn new tools
Why Join Us
Play a central role in how a fast-growing creative studio operates
Work across a wide range of production projects for ambitious technology companies
Help build the staffing and resource systems the company will use as it scales
Work closely with Creative Producers, creative leadership, and company leadership
Take ownership of an important function with visibility across the entire studio
Remote-friendly, flexible, and entrepreneurial environment
Healthcare coverage, PTO, and company holidays
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