Creative Manager, D&D Universes Beyond

Do you love helping creative teams turn big, messy ideas into clear plans? Do you like asking smart questions, surfacing risks, and keeping complex work moving?

We’re looking for a Creative Manager, D&D Universes Beyond who loves tabletop games and helping teams do their best work. This role is ideal for an organized, production-savvy people manager who can create clarity in ambiguity, and keep product work focused, healthy, and on track.

This is a hybrid role requiring three days a week in our Renton, WA office. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead and manage creative teams, supporting performance, career growth, workload health, and team culture.
• Own task tracking for assigned products, balancing capacity, freelancers, budgets, timelines, playtesting needs, and shifting priorities.
• Partner with cross-functional teams within the studio to turn product goals into clear vision, deliverables, and decisions.
• Keep teams aligned by running stand-ups, tracking risks, documenting decisions, supporting feedback loops, and clarifying next steps.
• Build practical processes, onboarding, documentation, review structures, vendor pipelines, and scalable workflows for emerging product models.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• 5+ years demonstrated ability in creative production, tabletop publishing, games, entertainment, project leadership, or a related creative field.
• 2+ years of experience managing creative professionals or project-based teams, including coaching, workload planning, career development, and team culture.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional creative projects with shifting priorities, external contributors, and multiple stakeholders.
• Strong operational instincts, including improving processes, creating documentation, coordinating reviews, and building repeatable workflows.
• Experience with freelancers, vendors, budgets, schedules, playtesting coordination, creative pipelines, and external partner relationships.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to turn ambiguous creative goals into scoped plans, trade-off recommendations, and clear next steps.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience with licensed products, entertainment franchises, external creative collaborators, or brand extensions.
• Familiarity with tabletop roleplaying games, fantasy storytelling, Dungeons & Dragons, or D&D Beyond.
• Fluency in tabletop game development workflows, including project planning, feedback tracking, approvals, editing collaboration, and digital implementation support.