Hybrid Creative Project Manager

at Lucid Dream VR

• Job title: Creative Project Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Durham, United States

About the role

• Creative Project Manager overseeing immersive projects at Lucid Dream, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with client goals in healthcare and technology industries.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage detailed project schedules, ensuring all deadlines are realistic and achievable.
• Help break complex, multi-disciplinary projects into clearly scoped tasks with defined owners, dependencies, and acceptance criteria, giving the team a clear path from kickoff to delivery
• Maintain project momentum by tracking progress, ensuring adherence to the project schedule, and ensuring all parties stay focused on project goals
• Proactively identify bottlenecks and implement strategies to expedite projects when necessary while maintaining quality standards
• Serve consistently as the primary liaison between clients and agency partners, and internal teams, leading kickoffs, progress updates and reviews.
• Facilitate clear communication and alignment throughout project lifecycles
• Collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders to align on strategy, project objectives, and deliverables, proactively communicating to avoid misaligned expectations.
• Bring sufficient design fluency to enforce brand and style guide adherence across deliverables, spotting inconsistencies in typography, color, composition, layout, and visual tone before they reach the client
• Support creative leads with creative leads on storyboards, concept art, and visual development reviews, ensuring narrative and visual direction stay aligned with client objectives as projects move from concept to production
• Ask clarifying questions to translate subjective client feedback ("this feels off," "it needs more energy") into clear, actionable creative direction that artists, designers, and developers can execute against
• Support capacity planning and resource allocation to ensure projects are staffed effectively.
• Manage project budgets, flagging variances early and recommending adjustments to protect margins
• Partner with the team to evaluate completed projects, identifying opportunities for improved efficiency and effectiveness
• Manage logistics for film shoots and deployments, coordinating closely with internal teams and external vendors to ensure all aspects are handled smoothly
• Manage and coordinate with contractors, defining scopes of work, and ensuring quality standards are met throughout project execution
• Coordinate with vendors and stakeholders to ensure all necessary deployment resources are secured and available when needed
• Oversee build delivery, submissions, and deployment logistics, ensuring all technical and compliance requirements are met

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of relevant project management or production experience in a digital agency environment or digital production studio preferably in a healthcare advertising agency setting.
• Familiarity with project management tools such as ClickUp, Monday, Trello or similar
• Excellent communication skills, written, verbal and visual
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects for multiple clients in a fast paced environment
• Comfort with ambiguity and evolving requirements; you know when to hold the line on scope and when to flex
• Experience managing both creative talent and technical deliverables for web agencies, digital marketing agencies or game design studios.
• Professional and proactive attitude with strong attention to detail and a desire to learn

Benefits

• Employer-sponsored health, vision, and dental
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match
• Responsible Paid Time-Off Policy
• Hybrid Work policy
• Parental Leave Policy
• Monthly team-building events