Creative Resource Manager

Summary

Nen Creative partners with technology startups to launch bold ideas through brands and stories. The Creative Resource Manager will own staffing, capacity planning, and scheduling across the creative studio, coordinating with producers, creative leads, and leadership to ensure projects are properly staffed and capacity constraints are identified early.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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

Skills

• Must be based in the United States
• 3–5 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 — 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
• LA/SF/NY preferred

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Must be based in the United States
• 3–5 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 — 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

Nice to Haves

• LA/SF/NY preferred

Benefits

• Remote-friendly, flexible, and entrepreneurial environment
• Healthcare coverage
• PTO
• Company holidays