Associate Manager, Creative Resource

Wasserman operates at the epicenter of sports, music, entertainment and culture, serving talent, brands and properties on a global scale. Our brands and properties division works with iconic brands and rights holders, supporting business growth through all marketing disciplines. We're a trusted partner to every major league, team and venue, building meaningful connections between brands, properties and fans.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Wasserman's presence spans 28 countries and more than 70+ cities, including New York, London, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Toronto, Paris and Sydney. For more information, please visit .

Office Policy – Hybrid 3x Week

Role Type – Permanent Full Time

Wasserman is seeking an Associate Creative Resource Manager to join our growing Creative Resource team. Reporting directly to the US Branded and Content Creative Resource Manager, this role supports creative teams primarily based in NY, LA, and PDX

What You’ll Do:
As part of our Creative Department, you’ll play a critical role in streamlining workflows, staffing projects, and sourcing top creative talent. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to ensure the right people are on the right projects, helping to balance workloads and setting creatives up to deliver their best work.

To do this, you’ll build a strong understanding of client needs, project timelines, and skill requirements in order to recommend staffing solutions that reflect creative strengths, brand experience, developmental goals, and availability. 

In addition, you’ll support the recruitment and onboarding of freelance talent, serving as a primary point of contact between freelancers and internal teams. You’ll coordinate closely with HR and IT to ensure a smooth and positive onboarding experience.

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Provide administrative support to the Creative Resourcing Team

• Schedule and attend weekly resourcing meetings to confirm projects are staffed, workloads are balanced, and any challenges are addressed

• Track department PTO requests and calendars

• Maintain resourcing documents and tracking systems (primarily Google Workspace and Asana)

• Serve as a key point of contact for incoming creative resource requests

• Identify opportunities for process improvement and recommend solutions

• Escalate capacity concerns to VP of Creative Operations to advise on staffing needs

• Build knowledge of clients, projects, and creative team skill sets to provide informed staffing recommendations

• Support Creative Resource Manager in recruitment and coordination of freelance creatives

  • Maintain a vetted freelance roster

  • Coordinate with HR, IT, and team leads for onboarding

  • Coordinate freelance payments with 3rd party vendors

  • Track freelance spend throughout the year

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong, clear communicator across teams and with executive partners

• Ability to triage requests and prioritize tasks

• Build collaborative relationships to achieve the best outcomes

• Proactive, solution-oriented, and forward-thinking, with the ability to anticipate resourcing needs

• Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment

• Highly organized, deadline-driven, and able to positively address shifting priorities

• An innate ability to streamline processes and identify efficiencies.

Professional Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in a creative agency, ideally in creative resources, operations or talent recruitment

• Familiarity of creative process within an agency environment, and understanding of skills/responsibilities of various creative roles

• Experience working with Creative leadership and an understanding of how creative process works

• Exceptional organizational and administrative skills.

• Experience working with cross functional teams

• Proficient in resource management platforms (experience with ASANA preferred) and Excel/Google Sheets.

• Emotionally intelligent, collaborative, and capable of navigating sensitive situations with professionalism and discretion.

Base salary range: $65 - 80K, plus bonus potential if applicable for role.
Actual base salary is dependent on several factors including but not limited to; market dynamics, location and region, experience, specialized skills/training (education), level of responsibility, budgetary considerations, tenure at the company (for current employees), etc. The salary range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Compensation decisions are dependent on circumstances of each role

Wasserman does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.

Wasserman is proudly an equal opportunity employer. We are always searching for the most passionate and talented people from all backgrounds and experiences to join us.

20 years into our evolution, we continue to expand services and geographies across the exciting and extraordinary worlds of sports, music, entertainment and culture.

We are committed to making a meaningful difference and driving real change when it comes to diversity equity and inclusion — not only among our employees, but in how we serve clients and push the industry at large.

If this sounds like a place you’d like to work, let’s talk!

Wasserman is a global leader in sports, music, entertainment and culture. Founded in 2002, Wasserman represents many of the world’s most iconic sports and entertainment figures, musical artists, brands and properties, empowering them to shape culture and captivate audiences worldwide.