Project Manager, Creative

About IMAX

With over 50 years of history as a global innovator in entertainment technology, our employees and their careers have constantly gone beyond the ordinary at IMAX. We combine proprietary technology with industry-leading knowledge and relationships with top studios and filmmakers to create theatrical experiences that take audiences beyond the edge of their seats to a world they never imagined. IMAX has revolutionized the way people experience movies and continues to push the boundaries of entertainment experiences beyond blockbusters and into exciting new directions.

Come explore IMAX - where innovation, creativity and passion come together. Get inspired, get involved, and ignite your future with IMAX!

• Lead and manage the entire creative project lifecycle from briefing to final delivery: planning, scope changes, creative development/versioning, approvals, material delivery/distribution, and postmortem/wrap
• Work with team members, key partners (internally and externally) to define project scope, including timeline, resources, project hours and any internal/external costs
• Own, drive and facilitate creative project-related meetings (kick-offs, status, internal/business partner reviews, approvals etc.), and communicate action/next steps, share recaps with team members accordingly from those meetings
• Route creative for approval to appropriate stakeholders, keeping track of multiple, and sometimes conflicting, pieces of feedback. Integrating this information seamlessly into the creative development and production workflow
• Manage, organize, and distribute all project information and documentation, including creative briefs, strategy briefs, status reports, deliverables lists and post-project reports (if needed)
• Build strong working relationships with business partners and serve as the liaison between internal and external partners, setting project expectations and consistently communication progress; able to identify issues early on and suggest workable solutions
• Collaborate with Production team to ensure projects are scoped out and resourced accordingly to meet timelines for file delivery to business partners
• Ensure all deliverables are meeting business partner expectations, including adherence to established timelines / guidelines and budgets

• 6+ years of creative/advertising/marketing experience
• Experience working in house or agency side within entertainment, familiar with navigating through matrixed eco-systems dealing with multiple business partners and layered approvals
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

• Working knowledge of latest Adobe Creative Suite preferred
• Familiar with project management tools like Basecamp and Kantata
• A/V experience nice to have