Senior Lead Creative Producer Company Lumen

Federal Contractor Location Helena, MT

Date Posted 09/24/2026

Description Lumen is the trusted network for the AI-powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through our expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. We enable secure, high-performance connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads for enterprises, governments, andmunities. At Lumen, you'll work on infrastructure customers rely on today and build for what's next, w performance, security, and resilience matter. This is a high accountability environment w bold ideas drive real innovation for our customers, partners, and industry. The work is challenging, expectations are clear, and trust is built into how we operate. If you're ready to take ownership, deliver meaningful impact, and help shape the future of AI-ready connectivity, join us today. The Role The Sr Lead Creative Producer is a senior individual contributor responsible for bringing the organization's mostplex and high-visibility creative work to life. Positioned at the intersection of creative strategy, business priorities, and execution, this role provides the leadership and structure needed to move work from approved concept through launch across internal teams and external partners. By creating clarity, alignment, and accountability in fast-moving environments, the role enables creative teams to focus on strategy, ideas, and craft while helping the organization deliver high-quality work with greater confidence and consistency. The Main Responsibilities Lead enterprise campaigns, brand initiatives, executivemunications, sponsorships, innovation programs, and special projects from concept approval through launch. Translate creative strategy intoprehensive roadmaps covering milestones, decisions, dependencies, deliverables, ownership, reviews, approvals, and launch requirements; establish fit-for-purpose governance and manage parallel workstreams with clarity, momentum, and accountability. Serve as operational lead across Brand Creative, Content Strategy, Design & Motion, Product Marketing, Communications, Digital, Web, Demand Generation, PMO, agencies, and executive stakeholders. Facilitate working sessions, reviews, and launch-readiness meetings; identify dependencies, secure inputs and decisions, and align strategy, creative direction, messaging, design, delivery, roles, timelines, and decision rights. Serve as the primary stakeholder contact, setting expectations for scope, deliverables, timelines, dependencies, reviews, approvals, and tradeoffs while managingmunications, executive reporting, and escalation paths. Drive decisions by clarifying questions, surfacing risks, and documenting oues while protecting creative integrity and maintaining stakeholder engagement and accountability. Own day-to-day coordination with agencies, production vendors, freelancers, motion and design partners, and scalable production resources, managing briefs, kickoffs, trackers, timelines, review cycles, and consolidated feedback. Align partners to objectives, creative direction, messaging, brand standards, and delivery expectations; coordinate quality checkpoints and help assess partner performance, process issues, and collaboration improvements. Ensure work is properly scoped and tied to approved objectives and business needs; monitor timeline, resource, readiness, quality, and decision risks while managing reviews, approvals, routing, feedback, and version control. Drive launch readiness across final assets, handoffs, deployment details, and approvals, ensuring outputs meet the approved brief, strategy, messaging, design, and channel requirements. Partner with Creative Operations to align capacity and project needs to the right internal and external resources, identifying required skills across strategy, copy, design, motion, production, web, and agency support. Surface capacity, priority, and workload risks early; coordinate staffing, handoffs, and sequencing, and support tradeoff decisions as scope, timing, or resource availability changes. Identify delivery risks early and develop mitigation plans while managing scope changes, shifting priorities, late inputs, new requirements, and evolving business needs. Facilitate tradeoffs across speed, scope, quality, resources, and business impact; escalate issues with clear options while maintaining momentum and work quality. Capture lessons learned and partner with Creative Operations to strengthen project delivery, intake readiness, workflow efficiency, role clarity, and reporting. Document repeatable delivery patterns, playbooks, and best practices while fostering accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement across the creative organization. Own execution of large-scale creative initiatives, campaigns, special projects, executive programs, and high-priority business needs, translating strategic intent into executable plans and final deliverables across internal teams and external partners. Manage risks, dependencies, approvals, and expectations to strengthen stakeholder confidence, creative-team efficiency, and high-quality delivery at pace while enabling creative leaders to focus on strategy, concepts, messaging, design direction, and craft. What We Look For in a Candidate 10+ years of experience in creative production, integrated marketing, project management, agency account leadership, or related creative delivery roles. Experience managingplex creative initiatives across multiple internal teams, stakeholders, agencies, and production partners. Strong understanding of creative development workflows across strategy, copy, design, motion, digital, web, and production. Proven ability to manage timelines, dependencies, risks, approvals, deliverables, and stakeholder expectations. Experience working with executive stakeholders and high-visibility initiatives. Strongmunication, facilitation, negotiation, and problem-solving skills. Exceptional organizational and prioritization abilities withfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments. Experience managing external agencies, vendors, freelancers, or scalable production partners. Ability to balance creative quality, business urgency, stakeholder needs, and operational realities. Compensation This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors. Location Based Pay Ranges $132,232

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$145,456

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Lumen offers aprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. We're able to answer any additional questions you may have about our bonus structure (short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or salespensation) as you move through the selection process. Learn more about Lumen's Benefits (jobs.lumen/global/en/benefits-statement) Bonus Structure #LI-Remote What to Expect Next Requisition # 343528 Life at Lumen Life at Lumen is human and connected, even in a fast moving, AI-focused organization. We set clear expectations and trust people to meet them. With real support and d accountability, teams collaborate better, move faster, and deliver meaningful oues. Our Lumen 8 behaviors guide how we interact, make decisions, and work together, shaping a culture built to perform and win. To learn more about Life at Lumen and how we live the Lumen 8, please visit jobs.lumen/global/en/life-at-lumen Background Screening If you are selected for a position, t will be a background screen, which may include checks for criminal records and/or motor vehicle reports and/or drug screening, depending on the position requirements.