Job Description

Creative Studio Production Manager (Freelancer, 12 Month)

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As the organiser of some of the biggest and most iconic sport events in the world, we lead the way in the sport and event industry.

Join the team as a freelancer and support us on our mission.

THE POSITION

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As Creative Studio Production Manager at FIFA, you are the operational backbone of the FIFA Brand Creative Services Studio, ensuring that all creative work moves efficiently from brief to delivery with the right resources, timelines, and processes in place.

You will be responsible for orchestrating studio operations at scale, managing a high and growing volume of creative requests across brand, marketing, events, digital, and broadcast. Your role enables creative excellence by providing structure, clarity, and stability, allowing Designers, and Brand Managers to focus on strategy and creative quality.


This role combines strong production management, workflow optimisation, and stakeholder coordination skills, supported by a solid understanding of graphic design and creative production processes.


The role reports directly to the Global Head of Brand & Creative Services and works in close partnership with the Senior Art Direction Manager.

These are your key tasks:

Own and manage the end-to-end production workflow for all creative requests, from intake to final delivery. Triage, prioritise, and schedule a high volume of design and content requests (100+ per month, with strong growth expected). Plan workloads and allocate resources across internal designers, external agencies, freelancers, and content factory partners. Act as the single source of truth for studio capacity, priorities, and delivery status. Monitor timelines, dependencies, risks, and delivery milestones across multiple parallel workstreams. Maintain, evolve, and optimise the design request management tool and workflow system. Establish clear intake processes, SLAs, prioritisation frameworks, and approval flows. Ensure briefs are complete and actionable; proactively clarify objectives, deliverables, formats, and timelines with requestors. Serve as the central coordination point between Brand Managers, Art Direction, Designers, Marketing, Events, Digital, Broadcast, and external partners. Manage day-to-day collaboration with external agencies, freelancers, and the Content Factory. Ensure clear communication, accountability, and visibility across all ongoing projects.

YOUR PROFILE

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We work hard at FIFA.

We are dedicated, ambitious and innovative.

And we respect our values. Always.



For all roles, we seek talented people with an entrepreneurial spirit and a global mindset.



The specific competencies we require for this position are:Minimum of 5 years of experience in creative production management, studio operations, traffic management, or related roles within agency, sports, entertainment, FMCG, or global brand environments. Mandatory: hands-on experience managing high-volume creative pipelines is essential. Fast, solution oriented and extremely organized with strong interpersonal qualities. Degree or diploma in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Creative Production or a related creative discipline. Proven HANDS -ON expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro). Experience working with large-scale brand projects, live events, from concepting event look & feel to developing venue branding systems. Minimum 8-10 years of experience in senior graphic or art direction roles within agency, entertainment, FMCG, or sports-related industries. Fluent in spoken and written English is mandatory.

About FIFA

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We are FIFA, the global governing body for football.

Our vision is to make football truly global, diverse and inclusive, for the benefit of the entire world. The last FIFA World Cup in Qatar in 2022 attracted more than 5 billion viewers and the last FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 was the greatest-ever FIFA Women's World Cup that inspired millions of girls and women around the globe. The opportunities for growth are exciting.



We are a modern organisation with over 800 passionate employees who are Living Football every day. Our headquarters are based in Zurich, Switzerland, and we have offices in Miami, Paris and Rabat, plus eleven regional offices from New Zealand to India, South Africa, Panama and Paraguay.

Employment Type

Freelance

Location

Zurich

Workplace type

Fully remote