Project Manager - Paid Media and Creative Production
Description
SoundCloud is looking for a Project Manager who is focused on our paid media and creative production initiatives. Partnering with colleagues across marketing it’s your mission to accelerate creative output and iteration velocity, supporting both paid-media campaigns and in-house design production. You’ll also collaborate with our in-house visual designers, ensuring smooth workflows, alignment, and efficiency across all creative channels.
Key Responsibilities
- Briefing and building direction where you will be transforming strategic goals into precise creative briefs
- Evaluating and iterating on ad concepts - design, tone, messaging and ensuring that they are thumb-stopping and platform-native
- Platforming specific content strategy where you understand and guide the creation of ads optimized for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, Meta, Snapchat, etc
- Leveraging knowledge of targeting, ad formats, and creative best practices per platform
- Creative production management where you'll be hands-off managing and reviewing cycles with the external and in-house graphic designer
- Facilitating daily syncing, asset tracking, and QA
- Testing & Iteration where you'll be designing and executing A/B test structures and driving variation across creative concepts
- Utilizing performance insights to refine your creative direction
- Focusing on audience and metrics --- translating audience personas into compelling creatives
- Collaboration and process improvement --- coordinating with Paid Media, Design, and Graphic teams to identify bottlenecks and implement process enhancements
- Aligning output with strategy, budget, and timeline across all stakeholders
Requirements
Experience And Background
- 3-5+ years of experience Project Management, Creative Operations, or Production roles in marketing, advertising, or creative services
- Strong visual & copy sensibility — instinctively knows what makes a thumb‑stopping ad
- Platform expertise — deep understanding of TikTok, IG, Meta, Snapchat, Shorts, and ad formats
- Briefing & feedback excellence — can translate strategy into concise briefs and actionable creative insights
- Data-driven optimization — comfortable optimizing creative performance via CTR, CPAS, ROAS, engagement metrics
- Hands-on approach — mastering the right tools, you don’t mind rolling up your sleeves to make resizes and small design changes when needed
Benefits & Perks
The salary range for this role is $80,000 - $95,000 annually. The final salary offered will be determined based on relative experience, skills, internal equity, and location. We also offer a generous total rewards program - read more about additional benefits and perks below!
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources
- Robust 401k program
- Employee Equity Plan
- Generous professional development allowance
- Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
- Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
- 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
- Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office
How to apply
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