Creative Project Manager

Manila, Philippines

About Aarki

Aarki is an AI-driven company specializing in mobile advertising solutions designed to fuel revenue growth. We leverage AI to discover audiences in a privacy-first environment through trillions of contextual bidding signals and proprietary behavioral models. Our audience engagement platform includes creative strategy and execution. We handle 5 million mobile ad requests per second from over 10 billion devices, driving performance for both publishers and brands. We are headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with a global presence across the United States, EMEA, and APAC.

Role Overview

The Creative Project Manager is responsible for planning, tracking, and delivering creative work across multiple stakeholders while ensuring timelines, quality, and team capacity are balanced.

This role is central to how Creative Services functions day to day. It owns Jira workflows, delivery visibility, and operational discipline across Creative projects. This is not a coordinator role. This is a delivery owner role.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and monitor creative project timelines and delivery milestones.
• Own Jira workflow maintenance for Creative Projects.
• Act as the single source of truth for task status, ownership, and priorities.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with Creative, Revenue, Analyst and Product.
• Track KPIs, productivity, and delivery metrics.
• Manage resource allocation and bandwidth planning.
• Oversee pre-production checks and asset quality readiness.
• Identify delivery risks early and drive resolution.
• Provide clear reporting and visibility to leadership.
• Guide and support team members on process and prioritisation
  
  

• 5–8 years experience as a Creative Project Manager or equivalent role
• Strong background in project management and delivery tracking
• Proven ability to manage multiple creative workstreams simultaneously
• Advanced experience in cross-functional coordination with different
• Demonstrated strength in problem-solving and conflict management
• Experience mapping operations workflows and information architecture
• Strong focus on metrics, dashboards, and delivery visibility
• Confident handling client or stakeholder communication in delivery contexts
• Expert-level Jira usage, including:
• Workflow and board setup
• Ticket lifecycle management
• Filters, dashboards, and reporting
• Enforcing Jira discipline across teams
• Strong experience with Confluence for documentation and process clarity
• The candidate does not need to be a designer, but must be fluent in creative workflows.
• Solid understanding of:
• Animation and motion graphics workflows
• Asset management and version control
• Art direction and quality control standards
• Storyboarding and concept development processes
• Strong appreciation of:
• Graphic design and presentation design workflows
• Pre-production checks and asset readiness
  

• Experience in ad tech, marketing, or performance-driven creative teams
• Familiarity with pre and post-sales or client-driven creative delivery
• Experience working with distributed or high-volume creative teams