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CarMax, the way your career should be!
POSITION OVERVIEW
The best project managers don’t chase deadlines — they get ahead of them, giving teams the time and space to think, create, and deliver their best. That’s the standard this role is built around.
The Manager, Creative Project Management is responsible for end-to-end project management and production of brand paid social, as well as consideration and acquisition assets within an assigned area of the CarMax Creative & Operations team. This is a managerial individual contributor role — each Manager owns their workstream hands-on while maintaining the quality, timeliness, and brand integrity of all outputs. Managers report to the Sr. Manager, Project Management & Production and are accountable for managing internal and external creative projects, coordinating stakeholder reviews, owning production planning, and delivering work that meets CarMax’s brand and quality standards.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Campaign & Project Management
- Owns end-to-end project management for assigned creative workstreams — brand paid social, acquisition and consideration advertising (paid search, display, CTV, programmatic, lead gen), and related production — tracking milestones, ownership, and deliverables.
- Translates creative briefs into actionable production schedules and workback plans, including from early-stage or evolving briefs.
- Identifies and mitigates project risks proactively; escalates blockers to the Sr. Manager and partners early.
Production Management
- Manages creative schedules and milestones for both internal and external productions, from kickoff, concepting, and pre-production through shoot, post, and final delivery. Ensures deliverables meet channel, format and brand specifications.
- Partners with the Sr. Manager and creative stakeholders to define external project scopes and statements of work, and reviews partner estimates against approved scope, escalating change orders before work proceeds.
- Runs the review and approval cycle across creative, strategy, and legal stakeholders.
- Oversees talent, music licensing, and usage rights tracking in partnership with production and legal teams, and manages trafficking and delivery of finished assets.
Internal Partner, Stakeholder, and Agency Coordination
- Serves as the day-to-day operational point of contact for creative agency and internal partners and stakeholders across assigned channels; defines deliverables, timelines, and feedback cycles.
- Onboards new partners to CarMax brand standards and workflows.
- Partner with internal teams to manage creative requests, working alongside media strategists and creatives who lead the brief to ensure the ask is clear and aligned.
- Holds internal and external partners accountable to agreed scopes, schedules, and quality standards.
- Supports quarterly and fiscal year planning by providing insight on historic deliverables and current available assets.
Quality Assurance & Brand Standards
- Reviews all assets within their workstream for brand compliance, accuracy, and quality before delivery or publication, enforcing consistent QA against CarMax brand standards and channel specifications.
- Coordinates legal review cycles for usage rights and promotional claims and maintains asset version records and approval documentation.
- Partners with creative leads to protect the quality and integrity of creative output throughout production.
Budget & Production Cost Tracking
- Tracks production costs and actuals for assigned deliverables, reviews video bids against approved scope, and reconciles final costs with the Sr. Manager.
- Flags budget risks or overages early and supports cost-efficient decisions without compromising creative quality.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required
- 4–7 years in project management, campaign production, or creative operations; in-house brand, agency, or combined experience considered.
- 2+ years managing video production, including oversight of agency- or vendor-led shoots from pre-production through final delivery.
- Working knowledge of the video production lifecycle: bidding and estimates, pre-production, production, post-production, finishing, and versioning.
- Experience coordinating legal review for advertising or content assets.
- Strong written and verbal communication; able to present status, risks, and decisions clearly to senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and maintain brand and creative quality standards while driving operational efficiency.
- Willing to occasionally travel for work, up to 4 weeks per year.
Preferred
- In-house brand or agency experience supporting a national consumer brand.
- Experience managing or mentoring junior project staff or coordinators.
- Experience working with external production companies, editorial houses, or post-production vendors.
- Proficiency in monday.com or a similar platform; experience building project boards for cross-functional teams.
- Experience managing talent, music, and usage rights for produced video, and familiarity with delivery specs and trafficking across digital and social channels.
- Experience defining scopes and statements of work with agency or production partners, reviewing bids, and managing change orders and production budgets.
About CarMax
CarMax disrupted the auto industry by delivering the honest, transparent and high-integrity experience customers want and deserve. This innovative thinking around the way cars are bought and sold has helped us become the nation’s largest retailer of used cars, with over 200 locations nationwide.
Our amazing team of more than 25,000 associates work together to deliver iconic customer experiences. Along the way, we help every associate grow their career and achieve their best, at work and in their community. We are recognized for our commitment to training and diversity and are one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For®.
CarMax is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The annual salary for this position is:
$100,000.00 - $160,000.00 May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Benefits:
Except as otherwise required by state law, CarMax Associates are entitled to the following paid sick, vacation, and holiday time.
Associates that are considered full-time hourly or commission/incentive eligible:
- To earn up to 48 hours of sick time per year accrued on a per pay period basis and between 80 hours and 200 hours per year of vacation time after a 90 day waiting period depending on years of continuous service with the Company.
- For 8 hours of pay for each of a total of 6 paid scheduled holidays per year plus 1 floating holiday. If such an Associate does work on a scheduled holiday due to business need, they are eligible for Holiday Premium Pay.
Associates considered full-time salaried are entitled to paid time away with no specified limit as needed for sick, vacation, bereavement, jury duty, holidays, floating holiday, etc. subject to manager approval.
For more details about benefits, please visit our CarMax Benefits website.
Upon an applicant's request, CarMax will consider reasonable accommodation to complete the CarMax Job Application.
8116 - Midtown Office - 2220 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23220
CarMax, the way your career should be!
POSITION OVERVIEW
The best project managers don’t chase deadlines — they get ahead of them, giving teams the time and space to think, create, and deliver their best. That’s the standard this role is built around.
The Manager, Creative Project Management is responsible for end-to-end project management and production of brand paid social, as well as consideration and acquisition assets within an assigned area of the CarMax Creative & Operations team. This is a managerial individual contributor role — each Manager owns their workstream hands-on while maintaining the quality, timeliness, and brand integrity of all outputs. Managers report to the Sr. Manager, Project Management & Production and are accountable for managing internal and external creative projects, coordinating stakeholder reviews, owning production planning, and delivering work that meets CarMax’s brand and quality standards.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Campaign & Project Management
- Owns end-to-end project management for assigned creative workstreams — brand paid social, acquisition and consideration advertising (paid search, display, CTV, programmatic, lead gen), and related production — tracking milestones, ownership, and deliverables.
- Translates creative briefs into actionable production schedules and workback plans, including from early-stage or evolving briefs.
- Identifies and mitigates project risks proactively; escalates blockers to the Sr. Manager and partners early.
Production Management
- Manages creative schedules and milestones for both internal and external productions, from kickoff, concepting, and pre-production through shoot, post, and final delivery. Ensures deliverables meet channel, format and brand specifications.
- Partners with the Sr. Manager and creative stakeholders to define external project scopes and statements of work, and reviews partner estimates against approved scope, escalating change orders before work proceeds.
- Runs the review and approval cycle across creative, strategy, and legal stakeholders.
- Oversees talent, music licensing, and usage rights tracking in partnership with production and legal teams, and manages trafficking and delivery of finished assets.
Internal Partner, Stakeholder, and Agency Coordination
- Serves as the day-to-day operational point of contact for creative agency and internal partners and stakeholders across assigned channels; defines deliverables, timelines, and feedback cycles.
- Onboards new partners to CarMax brand standards and workflows.
- Partner with internal teams to manage creative requests, working alongside media strategists and creatives who lead the brief to ensure the ask is clear and aligned.
- Holds internal and external partners accountable to agreed scopes, schedules, and quality standards.
- Supports quarterly and fiscal year planning by providing insight on historic deliverables and current available assets.
Quality Assurance & Brand Standards
- Reviews all assets within their workstream for brand compliance, accuracy, and quality before delivery or publication, enforcing consistent QA against CarMax brand standards and channel specifications.
- Coordinates legal review cycles for usage rights and promotional claims and maintains asset version records and approval documentation.
- Partners with creative leads to protect the quality and integrity of creative output throughout production.
Budget & Production Cost Tracking
- Tracks production costs and actuals for assigned deliverables, reviews video bids against approved scope, and reconciles final costs with the Sr. Manager.
- Flags budget risks or overages early and supports cost-efficient decisions without compromising creative quality.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required
- 4–7 years in project management, campaign production, or creative operations; in-house brand, agency, or combined experience considered.
- 2+ years managing video production, including oversight of agency- or vendor-led shoots from pre-production through final delivery.
- Working knowledge of the video production lifecycle: bidding and estimates, pre-production, production, post-production, finishing, and versioning.
- Experience coordinating legal review for advertising or content assets.
- Strong written and verbal communication; able to present status, risks, and decisions clearly to senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and maintain brand and creative quality standards while driving operational efficiency.
- Willing to occasionally travel for work, up to 4 weeks per year.
Preferred
- In-house brand or agency experience supporting a national consumer brand.
- Experience managing or mentoring junior project staff or coordinators.
- Experience working with external production companies, editorial houses, or post-production vendors.
- Proficiency in monday.com or a similar platform; experience building project boards for cross-functional teams.
- Experience managing talent, music, and usage rights for produced video, and familiarity with delivery specs and trafficking across digital and social channels.
- Experience defining scopes and statements of work with agency or production partners, reviewing bids, and managing change orders and production budgets.
About CarMax
CarMax disrupted the auto industry by delivering the honest, transparent and high-integrity experience customers want and deserve. This innovative thinking around the way cars are bought and sold has helped us become the nation’s largest retailer of used cars, with over 200 locations nationwide.
Our amazing team of more than 25,000 associates work together to deliver iconic customer experiences. Along the way, we help every associate grow their career and achieve their best, at work and in their community. We are recognized for our commitment to training and diversity and are one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For®.
CarMax is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The annual salary for this position is:
$100,000.00 - $160,000.00 May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Benefits:
Except as otherwise required by state law, CarMax Associates are entitled to the following paid sick, vacation, and holiday time.
Associates that are considered full-time hourly or commission/incentive eligible:
- To earn up to 48 hours of sick time per year accrued on a per pay period basis and between 80 hours and 200 hours per year of vacation time after a 90 day waiting period depending on years of continuous service with the Company.
- For 8 hours of pay for each of a total of 6 paid scheduled holidays per year plus 1 floating holiday. If such an Associate does work on a scheduled holiday due to business need, they are eligible for Holiday Premium Pay.
Associates considered full-time salaried are entitled to paid time away with no specified limit as needed for sick, vacation, bereavement, jury duty, holidays, floating holiday, etc. subject to manager approval.
For more details about benefits, please visit our CarMax Benefits website.
Upon an applicant's request, CarMax will consider reasonable accommodation to complete the CarMax Job Application.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Creative Project Manager
Document your creative management credentials now
Gather performance reviews, project portfolios, budget reports, and cross-functional team records before you apply. PERM requires your employer to define the job requirements, and your credentials must clearly meet them. Gaps surface late and slow the process.
Target employers with PERM filing history
Search Migrate Mate to find companies that have already filed PERM applications for Creative Project Manager or similar roles. Prior filings signal an established green card sponsorship process, reducing the internal education your offer negotiation will require.
Verify your role qualifies under EB-2 or EB-3
Pull the O*NET profile for Creative Project Manager and confirm the typical education and experience requirements. EB-2 requires an advanced degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive experience. EB-3 covers a bachelor's degree or two or more years of qualifying experience.
Get a prevailing wage determination early
Your employer files a prevailing wage request with DOL before PERM recruitment begins. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level II or Level III wage for your metropolitan area and job code, so your offered salary aligns before the formal process starts.
Raise green card sponsorship before accepting an offer
Creative project management roles are common enough that many employers have never sponsored one. Ask during final-round negotiations whether the company has an immigration policy, a corporate counsel relationship, and willingness to absorb PERM attorney and filing costs.
Track your priority date if you're from India or China
Once USCIS approves your I-140, your priority date is locked. Nationals from India and China face per-country backlogs on EB-2 and EB-3. Check the USCIS Visa Bulletin monthly and confirm your date remains current before USCIS can schedule your I-485 interview.
Green Card Creative Project Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Which green card category fits a Creative Project Manager role?
Most Creative Project Manager positions qualify under EB-3 professional if the role requires a bachelor's degree, or under EB-2 if it requires an advanced degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive specialized experience. Your employer documents the job requirements during PERM labor certification, and your credentials must match what DOL certifies.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary nonimmigrant status with a lottery and a fixed duration. Green card sponsorship through EB-2 or EB-3 leads to lawful permanent residence with no renewal requirement. The process is longer: your employer must complete PERM labor certification with DOL, then file an I-140 petition with USCIS, and you must wait for a current priority date before filing I-485 or pursuing consular processing.
How can I find employers who have already sponsored Creative Project Manager green cards?
Migrate Mate shows employers with verified PERM and employment-based green card filing history, searchable by role and location. Targeting companies that have already run PERM for creative or marketing management roles shortens the internal negotiation significantly, since those employers already have immigration counsel, an established process, and budget line items for sponsorship costs.
What does the PERM recruitment process mean for my job search?
PERM requires your employer to test the domestic labor market by posting the role through DOL-mandated recruitment steps, including newspaper ads, job boards, and an internal posting. If a qualified U.S. worker applies and is not legitimately rejected, DOL can deny certification. This means your offer must be for a genuine, specific role, not a position retrofitted around your background.
Can I change employers after my green card process starts?
You can change employers once your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for 180 days or more, and the new role is in the same or a similar occupational classification under AC21 portability. Separately, an approved I-140 can allow you to carry your priority date to a new employer's petition, even if the original employer withdraws the I-140 after approval.