Creative Project Manager (full-time/temporary)

The Henry Ford is a nonprofit organization, an internationally recognized cultural destination, and a one-of-a-kind workplace. The Henry Ford provides unique educational experiences based on authentic objects, stories, and lives from America's traditions of ingenuity, resourcefulness and innovation. Our purpose is to inspire people to learn from these traditions to help shape a better future. Our team is inspired daily by one another as well as the authentic stories of innovation that we share across our four venues. We want you to be part of this legacy and take it forward and that aligns with our core values of being Curious, Authentic, and Passionate.

Our Marketing team is seeking a temporary Creative Project Manager to help the institution efficiently review, activate, and manage a high volume of creative jobs within our project management platform. This position serves as a central coordinator, ensuring requests are properly scoped, prioritized, and routed, and that work moves smoothly from intake through fulfillment. The Creative Project Manager partners closely with internal clients from across the institution to clarify needs, timelines, and deliverables, while also coordinating daily workflow with our in-house team of designers. Projects span a wide range of creative outputs, including signage, marketing materials, wayfinding, printed pieces, menu boards, and other onsite and promotional assets. This role plays a critical operational support function, helping maintain momentum, organization, and clear communication across teams while ensuring creative work is delivered accurately, on time, and in alignment with institutional priorities.

This is a temporary, full-time role that starts immediately and continues for an undetermined amount of time, at least through March 2026.

This is a hybrid/remote-friendly role.

Essential Responsibilities

• Review, activate, and manage incoming creative jobs within the project management platform (Workfront), ensuring each request is clearly defined, properly prioritized, and ready for execution.
• Own assigned projects from activation through completion, coordinating timelines, deliverables, and approvals to ensure work is completed accurately and on schedule.
• Partner with internal clients across the institution to clarify scope, objectives, and requirements at intake and throughout the lifecycle of each job.
• Coordinate closely with the in‑house design team to assign work, manage workload, and support efficient execution of multiple simultaneous projects.
• Track project progress within the platform, proactively addressing issues, changes, or delays to keep work moving forward.
• Maintain accurate project documentation and status updates to support visibility, accountability, and effective communication.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 2 or more years of product or resource management experience, ideally in a creative agency setting
• Expert-level proficiency with Workfront software
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• General knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud programs (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat)

Special Skills

• Experience in resource management & planning
• Comfortable with data, analytics, and reporting
• Deep understanding of creative workflow and creative skillsets
• Knowledge of integrated work including design, digital/web, social, media, video, broadcast, print production
• Outstanding organizational, detail and time management skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize according to changing deadlines
• Intuitive problem solver with the ability to solve challenges
• Self-directed with the ability to work under pressure
• Strong communication skills

Please note that this job description is subject to modifications at any time to meet the evolving requirements of our institution.

Respect, inclusion, and opportunity for people of all backgrounds will attract the best ideas to THF and help us shape a more vibrant future. By honoring and celebrating people’s diversity, THF can bring new creativity, effectiveness, and leadership to our work and community. Achieving diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility is a continuous process, which, we believe, will contribute to a sustainable and inclusive world. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from individuals who identify with or belong to marginalized communities.

It is the policy of The Henry Ford to prohibit discrimination in any employment, donor or volunteering opportunity including but not limited to based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. This Policy applies to all of our employees, donors and volunteers to ensure that they are treated without discrimination.