Creative Resource Manager - Editorial and Content

Location: Arlington, Virginia

Job Type: Contract

Compensation Range: $45 - 50 per hour

We are seeking a Creative Resource Manager (CRM) focused on editorial, copywriting, and content-driven work streams to support intake, resourcing, and execution across marketing and creative teams.

This role sits at the intersection of creative operations, editorial oversight, and project coordination, serving as the operational hub for editorial and content requests. You will ensure work is clearly scoped, appropriately resourced, properly prioritized, and moving efficiently from intake through delivery. Working closely with editorial leadership, creative teams, marketing partners, and project stakeholders, you'll help build scalable processes while balancing planned initiatives alongside fast-moving, quick-turn requests.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who understands both how creative teams operate and what writers, editors, and content teams need to produce high-quality work.

Responsibilities:

Serve as a primary intake lead for editorial and content-related workstreams, including:

• Email campaigns
• Blog content
• Paid media copy
• One-pagers
• Thought leadership / op-eds
• Press releases
• Marketing and campaign content
• Partner with stakeholders to clarify objectives, audiences, deliverables, timelines, and success measures.
• Develop clear creative briefs, resource plans, and delivery expectations.
• Determine appropriate resourcing strategies across internal teams, freelancers, and external partners.
• Monitor team bandwidth, capacity, and competing priorities to ensure balanced workloads and efficient execution.
• Support onboarding, integration, and utilization of freelance writers, editors, and creative contributors.
• Own day-to-day coordination of editorial and content projects from intake through delivery.
• Facilitate kickoff meetings to align stakeholders, define scope, establish timelines, and set projects up for success.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects (including quick-turn work) while proactively identifying risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks.
• Utilize Adobe Workfront (required) and related project management tools to:
• Create and manage requests, timelines, tasks, and workflows.
• Maintain accurate project status updates.
• Track deliverables, approvals, and stakeholder communications.
• Ensure stakeholders remain informed, aligned, and engaged throughout project execution.
• Collaborate closely with broader Creative Resource Management and Project.
• Bring an editorial lens to incoming work, helping translate business needs into clear, actionable creative briefs for writers and content creators.
• Ensure requests are framed appropriately and aligned with broader messaging, audience, and content strategy goals.
• Help refine and standardize intake, briefing, and workflow processes through templates, guidelines, and best practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, resourcing models, and cross-functional collaboration as volume and complexity evolve.
• Operate comfortably in ambiguity, helping shape process where frameworks are still emerging.
• Serve as a trusted partner across editorial, marketing, design, creative operations, leadership, and external contributors.
• Act as a primary point of contact for content-related workstreams, managing expectations around scope, timelines, priorities, and deliverables.
• Foster strong collaboration between writers, editors, designers, project managers, and business stakeholders.
• Bring a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with strong communication and client-service instincts.
  
  
  

Qualifications:

• 4-7 years of experience across a combination of:
• Creative Resource Management
• Creative Operations / Traffic Management
• Project Management
• Editorial, Content Production, or Copywriting environments
  
  
  

Experience working within:

• In-house creative / marketing teams.
• Editorial or content organizations.
• Agencies or fast-paced creative environments.
• Workflows balancing strategic initiatives and reactive, quick-turn requests.
  
  
  

Skills & Strengths

• Strong understanding of editorial and copywriting workflows - you understand what writers and editors need to do great work.
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent creative projects (5 at a time).
• Strong experience with Adobe Workfront (required); familiarity with tools such as Airtable, Asana, Jira, or Monday.com preferred.
• Exceptional organization, prioritization, and communication skills.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and building process where it does not yet fully exist.
• Ability to simplify complex requests into clear plans, briefs, and actionable workflows.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building capabilities.
• High attention to detail, operational rigor, and proactive problem-solving mindset.
  
  
  

JOBID: 052026-134388

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Cella, a randstad digital company, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Cella by randstad digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.