Creative Production Manager [SK-26771] — Newport Beach, CA

Step into a dynamic role where your creative production expertise will directly shape how audiences connect with a beloved, national brand. Partnering with Aquent, you will have the unique opportunity to drive high-impact campaigns from concept to delivery, elevating visual storytelling and maximizing creative investments on a national scale.

About The Opportunity

Our client is an innovative leader in the hospitality and lifestyle space, celebrated for its commitment to quality, community, and delivering memorable experiences. In partnership with Aquent, you will join a passionate, collaborative team that values innovation and efficiency, playing a pivotal role in bringing compelling, multi-platform campaigns to life.

How You’ll Make An Impact

In this vital position, you will orchestrate the end-to-end production of diverse marketing assets, transforming strategic visions into tangible, high-quality content. By streamlining workflows and managing key creative relationships, you will ensure seamless execution across paid social, programmatic, digital display, and video platforms, directly influencing how customers engage with the brand.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with creative, marketing, and external agency teams to align on campaign priorities, deliverables, and launch timelines.

• Translate agency requirements into comprehensive, forward-looking production calendars and resource plans.

• Oversee asset production across multiple advertising channels, including paid social, programmatic, digital display, and video.

• Coordinate asset development with internal design teams, managing specifications, versioning, adaptations, and final delivery.

• Anticipate creative refreshes, testing needs, and campaign updates to proactively stay ahead of demand.

• Manage photography, video, and original content production, including planning, scheduling, budgeting, vendor relations, and post-production.

• Collaborate with creative leadership to align content production with upcoming campaigns and paid media deliverables.

• Strategically plan content production to maximize asset utility across paid media, CRM, web, print, and organic social channels.

• Optimize production workflows, approval processes, and integrated schedules to resolve challenges proactively.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in creative production, digital advertising production, or integrated campaign production.

• Deep understanding of paid media creative formats, specifications, versioning, and delivery requirements.

• Proven experience collaborating with paid media agencies and managing creative production across multiple digital platforms.

• Demonstrated success coordinating internal design teams, photography/video production, and external production partners.

• Ability to develop comprehensive production schedules, anticipate content needs, and manage multiple competing deadlines.

• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite and Trello, as well as project management tools such as Asana, Workfront, or ••••••••.

• Exceptional organizational pJwD2F, strong communication abilities, meticulous attention to detail, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Other Requirements

This is a full-time contract role.