About Rent the Runway:

Rent the Runway is disrupting the $1.7 trillion global fashion industry by introducing clothing rental as a utility in women’s everyday lives and empowering women to feel like their best selves everyday. We have pioneered the Closet in the Cloud and believe that every person globally will soon have a subscription to fashion. Since our launch in late 2009, we have raised $190M from top-tier investors and built one of the most beloved brands on earth. We are proud to be both a profitable and high-growth business, with a loyal 6MM-strong customer base who share the experience of renting as being empowering and smart.

Our 1000+ employees have a revolutionary spirit that permeates our culture. We’ve built - proprietary technology, a one-of-a-kind reverse logistics operation, stores of the future, a viral brand, relationships with hundreds of fashion brands - and we are obsessed with continuing to game change our customer experience. We are also trying to revolutionize entrepreneurship itself - proving that diverse teams produce outsized impact. The Rent the Runway Foundation, which our two co-founders launched together in 2015, helps tens of thousands of female entrepreneurs build and scale their own businesses with the mission of founders more clearly representing the demographics of this country.

Position Overview:

The Senior Project Manager is a pivotal role connecting multiple aspects of the business and will lead and manage multiple cross-functional projects including email marketing, promotions, campaign launches, product launches etc. The role is to facilitate the high quality of creative output for the company through their function, pushing us forward with processes that fit our company culture and dedication to great creative.

You will manage the workflow and enable a talented creative team by bringing technology, resource management and staffing, budget management, process design and motivational leadership to a fast-paced, agile and entrepreneurial working environment. To be most effective in this role, you must be highly collaborative, strategic in understanding each department’s goals in relation to company objectives, conceptual and flexible in your ability to implement pivotal workflow processes and motivational in bringing best in class structure and talent to a creative environment.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee resource management and workflow of Design team consisting of Graphic Design, Print/Retail Design, and Experience Design
• Manage concurrent projects, ticketing, developing timelines with key milestones, delivery and proper cataloging of assets on Dropbox
• Coordinate Daily Creative Scrums with all necessary stakeholders, consolidating feedback & ensuring team knows next steps and assign action items
• Continuously evaluate and communicate status of ongoing projects, identify any bottlenecks or risks, manage expectations as needed
• Work with Legal to maintain Image Rights Usage chart and within digital asset management tool
• Continuously find ways to streamline workflow and optimize process to identify best practices
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders across the company including Brand Marketing, Product and Engineering
• Work with leadership to develop operations for scale that work for optimizing both volume and creative output in a digitally-native environment, including international growth
• Refine internal processes between departments and develop new systems where appropriate
• Create an environment that encourages cross-functional alignment and momentum; facilitate collaboration and connection points across company departments to gather necessary inputs for decision-making
• Negotiate and guide relationships with best-in-class production partners, agencies and vendors
• Overall, create an environment in which the creative process operates with high efficiency and has room to create true brand value in its output, maximize creative productivity and pivot in response to company goals
• Work closely with Design and Marketing leadership to ensure creative brand integrity is supported through to all touch points
• Enable design teams to flex by building a network of exceptional freelancers; assign freelancers on a need basis and empower the creative teams to guide their own process when appropriate
• Ensure company maintains high-functioning asset management system; oversee negotiation and management of licensing and usage agreements across all mediums
• Ensure teams are tracking toward milestones, within budget and upholding brand integrity in their decisions

Qualifications:

• 5-7 years experience in a creative production environment – in-house or at a creative agency
• 5+ years experience working in either creative services, project management, or production
• Familiar with fast-paced, tech-driven creative environments
• Demonstrated experience setting up / optimizing processes aimed at improving workflow
• Proven ability to cultivate strong cross-functional relationships with both technical and creative partners
• Fluent in creative production workflow; budget creation, planning, tracking and management, contract negotiation, managing freelance and external agency partners
• Experience partnering with creative leadership and true understanding of creative team needs and potential
• Highly collaborative self-starter, driven by creative excellence with a finely tuned aesthetic sense
• Leadership level communication and strategic decision making skills for long and short term gain