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Senior Creative Program Manager

Samsara

Seattle · 7+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 9, 2026

At a glance

Experience
7+ years experience
Workplace
Remote
Location
Seattle

About the role

  • Our Senior Creative Program Manager is the operational engine behind Marketing's creative output.
  • You will own how creative work is taken, prioritized, resourced, and delivered across brand, campaigns, product launches, web, and events, bringing structure, visibility, and best practices to a fast-moving, high-volume creative organization.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional creative programs — from intake and brief review through scoping, production, review, approval, and launch — with clear visibility into scope, timelines, dependencies, and resource needs.
  • Develop program plans for major brand campaigns, product launches, events, and web initiatives, translating Marketing priorities into actionable creative roadmaps.
  • Track milestones and deliverables, provide timely status updates to stakeholders and senior leaders, and proactively identify and mitigate risks.
  • Partner with Creative leadership to run regular traffic, prioritization, and creative review cadences.
  • Run and continuously improve the creative intake process, ensuring briefs are clear, complete, and tied to business goals before work begins.
  • Build and maintain capacity and demand forecasts across internal designers, video and digital design teams, freelancers, and agency partners; recommend trade-offs and escalate constraints.
  • Manage creative vendor and agency relationships, including SOWs, timelines, asset delivery, and budget tracking.
  • Serve as the bridge between marketing strategy and creative execution, aligning with PMM, Campaigns, Brand, Events, and Web on priorities, timelines, and approval frameworks.
  • Communicate program health, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership clearly and concisely, both in writing and in presentations.
  • Define, document, and scale creative workflows, SOPs, and governance (briefing, versioning, approvals, asset management) that improve speed and quality.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of program or project management experience in an in-house creative studio, brand/marketing team, or creative agency
  • Proven experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder creative programs (brand campaigns, product launches, events, web, video, or content) from brief through delivery
  • Experience building and running creative intake, resourcing, capacity planning, and review/approval processes
  • Proficiency with work-management tools and methodologies (e.g., Airtable, Jira, Asana, Workfront, Google Sheets), and experience building dashboards or reporting on delivery performance
  • Experience integrating AI tools into program management or creative workflows to increase efficiency
  • Strong understanding of the creative production process, including design, copy, video, and web, and of realistic timelines and scoping
  • Experience managing agency partners, freelancers, and external vendors, including scopes of work and budgets
  • Outstanding organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills — written, verbal, and presentation — including the ability to influence senior stakeholders
  • Proactive approach to identifying and resolving obstacles and risks in partnership with teams and stakeholders

Benefits

  • Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance
  • Professional development stipend
  • Comprehensive health and parental leave plans

Workplace

  • Remote position open to candidates residing in the US except the San Francisco Bay Metro Area, NYC Metro Area, and Washington, D.C. Metro Area
  • Working hours in the Pacific time zone and the ability to collaborate with colleagues across a variety of time zones

Skills

  • Airtable
  • Jira
  • Asana
  • Workfront
  • Google Sheets

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