Careers at WEBTOON
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WEBTOON is the #1 digital comics app, averaging more than 82 million monthly active users, with north of 10 million daily readers – more people read web comics on our platform in one day than watch most television shows.
We're currently growing our team at our Los Angeles headquarters at Wilshire Courtyard on Miracle Mile, across from LACMA and SAG/AFTRA in the heart of the LA entertainment industry.
Video Project Manager
| Department: | Creative |
| Location: | Los Angeles, CA |
WEBTOON is a world leader in digital entertainment with over 82 million unique monthly readers. We are a rapidly growing digital entertainment company and Story Tech platform with users and creators from all over the world. Every day we come ready to learn, contribute, and get excited about the opportunity to work alongside people of different backgrounds and work styles.
The Video Project Manager reports to the Sr. Creative Project Manager, helping to drive operational excellence across WEBTOON’s growing in-house video and motion creative team. You will be responsible for managing video project intake, following projects through the design and creative process, and assisting with scheduling and resource allocation. This is a highly autonomous, critical role that requires a strong project management background and understanding of the creative process across many channels, including social media, performance advertising, and brand marketing. A successful candidate will be comfortable moving fast to organize and gather requirements from stakeholders across Marketing while ensuring we support our stakeholder's weekly and monthly deliverable needs in a timely and accurate manner. We are a growing, vibrant, organization in which you will be regularly coordinating with international teams to drive global best practices.
What You Will Do
- Manage resourcing and deliverables for a large creative team consisting of full-time, contract, freelancers, interns, and external vendors to ensure weekly and monthly video and motion projects are delivered on time. Manage internal stakeholder expectations to ensure reasonable timelines.
- Manage the timely delivery of both high-volume, weekly motion work, as well as mass advertising projects over multiple months.
- End-to-end management of schedules, timesheets, project flows, establishing creative reviews, and influence across advertising and marketing.
- Organize and archive deliverable assets, project files, decks, and content for localization to other WEBTOON regions.
- Meet with key stakeholders to ensure that the project requirements are clearly defined, including media strategy, launch schedules, event calendars, etc.
- Manage multiple projects for partner teams simultaneously, facilitating clear communication between the creative team and partners.
- Help refine organizational best practices and onboarding processes for new creatives, identifying any inefficiencies for our growing team.
- Assist the Sr. Creative Manager and Creative Director with budget management and operational planning, including but not limited to, preparing and distributing weekly project reports, sharing project updates/notes, preparing estimated schedules and budgets for production partners.
- Be an advocate for great creative in a scrappy, start-up-like environment.
Who You Are
- You have 3+ years of both in-house and/or agency (creative, advertising, or digital) experience in project management, project coordination, creative operations, creative production, and/or account management.
- You have high regard for WEBTOON, comics, animation, gaming, music, cinema, and entertainment, and enjoy working with creatives and business partners alike.
- You are highly organized and know the right timing to step in to ensure creative projects remain on track.
- You have experience in video production and have worked with both internal teams and external vendors (production companies, agencies, etc.) to produce motion and video content for advertising and social.
- You can respectfully push back and offer alternate solutions if timelines and requirements are unrealistic. For both internal stakeholders and the creative team, you cut through ambiguity to find the truth and then how to react and prioritize in a rapidly changing environment.
- You have experience managing both an in-person and remote creative team across multiple time zones.
- You’re able to accurately assess and prioritize multiple priorities across multiple teams and are comfortable with a fast-paced environment.
- You take pride and ownership in your work while maintaining a positive, collaborative attitude.
- You have strong communication skills, and as a bonus, are fluent in Spanish.
