About the role
Company Overview
Moonbug Entertainment is an award-winning global entertainment company behind major kids’ entertainment brands including CoComelon and Blippi. The company is part of Candle Media, an independent, creator-friendly home for cutting-edge, high-quality, category-defining brands and franchises. Moonbug’s content is available on more than 150 video platforms globally including Netflix, Disney+, BBC iPlayer and YouTube Kids, and they are a global leader in pre-school music and audio experiences on 100+ platforms. Brands extend to streaming music, toys, games, books, live events, and theme park exhibits.
The Role
The Creative Project Manager drives the planning, coordination, tracking, and delivery of creative and product development initiatives within the Consumer Products & Experiences (CP&E) division. The role serves as the central point for project workflow and visibility, ensuring teams understand priorities, timelines, dependencies, deliverables, approvals, and next steps.
- Duration: 6-month fixed term
- Location: 5 days on-site in Los Angeles
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain timelines for seasonal style guides, packaging programs, product development, retail initiatives, and other creative projects; translate major milestones into actionable schedules, track dependencies, identify risks, and proactively flag potential delays.
- Manage the end-to-end operational flow of creative projects; schedule internal and external reviews and ensure feedback is consolidated, actionable, and delivered to the appropriate owner.
- Develop and manage seasonal style-guide calendars, including creative development, agency deliverables, internal/legal reviews, revisions, finalization, and launch.
- Track individual asset types—character art, graphics, patterns, icons, backgrounds, key art, editorial, packaging elements—to ensure visibility into status.
- Collaborate with external agencies and internal legal teams to develop and track proposals and contract needs.
- Track and manage external agency invoices and creative budget spend to ensure asset needs remain within budget and identify financial risks.
- Track artwork development, structural needs, copy, legal requirements, stakeholder reviews, and final production assets.
- Maintain clear records of approvals, outstanding comments, revisions, and decision owners.
- Consolidate feedback from Brand, Creative, PD, Legal, Commercial, Retail, and external partners to reduce conflicting direction and unnecessary revision cycles.
- Manage organization, naming, version control, uploading, and release of approved assets across platforms (e.g., Flowhaven, Box).
- Manage creative timelines and deliverables involving licensees, agencies, vendors, and international partners.
- Communicate asset availability, deadlines, approval status, and project requirements; escalate creative or product decisions to the appropriate team lead.
- Serve as the operational liaison across Creative/Product Development, Commercial, Brand, Legal, Retail, and external partners.
- Prepare project status updates, meeting agendas, recaps, action items, and leadership-level reporting.
- Collaborate with Creative and PD leadership to understand workload, competing priorities, and resource needs; sequence projects based on business priorities and identify capacity issues.
- Establish scalable processes, templates, trackers, naming conventions, approval workflows, and project documentation.
- Conduct project retrospectives to recommend improvements that reduce bottlenecks and increase visibility.
- Track and enforce PD process milestones, holding the cross-functional team accountable for deliverables and timing.
Requirements
- Experience: 3-5+ years of project management, creative operations, licensing, product development, or consumer products experience. Experience preferred in entertainment, toys, kids/preschool, fashion, lifestyle, or licensed-products environments.
- Licensing Knowledge: General understanding of licensing production timelines, seasonal development calendars, packaging, style guides, product submissions, legal review, and asset management.
- Tools & Systems:
- Comfort with approval and asset sharing tools such as Flowhaven, Box, Monday.com, Airtable, or comparable workflow/digital asset management systems.
- Proficiency in Mac OSX, MSFT & Google Suites (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Sheets, Google Slides).
- Proficiency in Adobe Suite Programs (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign).
- Competencies:
- Ability to work under pressure and prioritize workload.
- Ability to work across the needs of a global team.
- Ability to manage creative budgets.
Benefits
- Salary: $80,000 - $90,000 annualized
- Health Care: Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Retirement: 401k
- Insurance: Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D), Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Time Off: Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Family: Maternity and Paternity leave
- Perks: Training & Development, Free Food & Snacks, Wellness Resources, and more.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Moonbug Entertainment is committed to an inclusive and diverse work environment. They provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Reasonable accommodations are provided for qualified individuals with disabilities in job application and interview processes.