IMAX Corporation Hiring for Creative Operations Manager at Los Angeles, CA Full Time

About IMAX

With over 50 years of history as a global innovator in entertainment technology, our employees and their careers have constantly gone beyond the ordinary at IMAX. We combine proprietary technology with industry-leading knowledge and relationships with top studios and filmmakers to create theatrical experiences that take audiences beyond the edge of their seats to a world they never imagined. IMAX has revolutionized the way people experience movies and continues to push the boundaries of entertainment experiences beyond blockbusters and into exciting new directions.

Come explore IMAX – where innovation, creativity and passion come together. Get inspired, get involved, and ignite your future with IMAX!

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About the Role

IMAX is looking for a Manager, Operations to join our growing Creative team. Reporting to the VP, Global Creative Marketing, you’ll leverage and integrate right-sized digital tools to enhance workflows that lead to greater efficiencies and increase productivity across the creative team and the whole of the marketing organization as it relates to media asset storage and distribution, project management and resource management.

You’ll primarily focus on engaging with pre-existing 3rd party technology providers including but not limited to Basecamp, Adstream and Kantata, but as part of a larger companywide digital transformation roadmap, you’ll work closely with Marketing Business Partners, leverage the technology team’s Help Desk & its consultative services while ensuring alignment with Enterprise Transformation and our Digital Products & Experiences team. If you’re interested in helping maintain current systems but keeping a process-improvement mindset, this could be the perfect role for you.

What You’ll Do:

• Define, capture, optimize process and workflows as it relates to technological integrations and PSAs (Professional Service Automations); effectively translate technological benefits to users
• Manage, sustain, and consistently evolve current digital tools – Adstream (Digital Asset Management tool), Kantata (Project Management tool), Basecamp, Hightail, and Server
• Act as the daily point of contact for all external professional Service Automation tool providers
• Complete the launch, rollout, training and evolution of our new Project Management & Resourcing Tool — Kantata
• Build, lead, and provide training workshops, on-boarding tools, instructional videos, and manuals to keep users up-to-speed and well-informed across digital tools
• Partner with the Digital Products team and IT on streamlining workstreams as it relates to creative material delivery
• Build dashboards, automations, reporting tools, etc. that help the creative and Marketing organizations run much more efficiently and provides the right resource and project data points to build business cases for additional resourcing across projects and campaigns
• Lead digital archiving for all creative materials and digital media, own and implement metadata strategy, and manage changes to digital tools to reflect the evolution of the creative and marketing organization and changes with users

What You’ll Need:

• 5+ years of successful experience across building, managing, and launching PSAs (Professional Service Automations) platforms including Creative, Project Management, Media Management and Time/Resource Management tools, ideally within creative/advertising/marketing agency sectors
• Data-driven thinker and experience with building automated data-driven reports and dashboards
• Experience with successfully launching technology tools, processes, workstreams, and new frameworks cross-divisionally within complicated business eco-systems
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Knowledge of any PSAs and Basecamp, Kantata, and Adstream

Nice to Have:

• Experience within the entertainment (Theatrical, Streaming, Broadcast) industry is a plus
• Strong people management and partnership management skills, balancing the power of soft and hard (tech.) skills
• Ability to negotiate, influence and work through problems with partners taking them along for the journey – one team, one dream mentality – whilst also setting very clear boundaries and expectations
• Ability to think bigger than the task initially presented and identify deliverables not initially presented
• Great follow-through, prioritization, and organizational skills

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At IMAX, you will be part of a culture built on respect – we are committed to creating a welcoming and diverse atmosphere across our organization.

For consideration, please apply online. We thank all applicants for their interest in IMAX but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.