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Photo Project Manager

Creative Circle
Chicago, IL Contractor
POSTED ON 5/25/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/15/2026

The Photo Project Manager is a senior, highly technical role responsible for driving photo and creative projects from intake through delivery with precision and pace. This individual is intensely focused on execution, accountability, and keeping teams aligned to timelines, tools, and outcomes.

This role operates at the intersection of creative production and operational rigor, ensuring projects move efficiently through complex workflows while maintaining quality and momentum. The opportunity is less about creative direction and more about relentless execution ensuring the right work gets done, by the right people, at the right time, with no loss of momentum.

This role is long term freelance, ideally local to Chicago with onsite a few times a month.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end project management for photo and creative initiatives, ensuring work moves smoothly from intake to final delivery
  • Serve as a central point of coordination, keeping all stakeholders focused on priorities, timelines, and completion of work
  • Manage detailed workflows and task structures within Adobe Workfront Fusion, including task creation, sequencing, and status management
  • Leverage Adobe Workfront Fusion integrations ensuring assets are organized, traceable, and delivered on schedule
  • Maintain and actively manage project timelines, flagging risks early and driving resolution
  • Enforce process, governance, and compliance requirements throughout the lifecycle of each project

Skills & Experience

  • Senior level experience in creative project management or creative production
  • Highly technical and fluent in Adobe Workfront Fusion, including advanced task and workflow management
  • Strong understanding of Adobe Workfront Fusion workflows, integrations, and asset management structures
  • Comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining focus and urgency

In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data.

Benefits

Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.

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Allie Gribble - Senior Solutions Delivery Recruiter

For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.This is a new role.

This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 04/30/2026 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.

This job was posted on 04/30/2026 and is open for 60 days

Everforth Creative Circle is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Our hiring process includes AI screening for keywords and minimum qualifications. Recruiters review all results.  Everforth Creative Circle will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local law, including but not limited to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact your Recruiter (the person you'll be interviewing with) or a member of our Human Resources team to make arrangements. Anthem / Blue Cross Blue Shield creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Creative Circle.

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