Emily Engel

• Hired, developed and managed creative services team that included graphic design, motion graphics, promotional videos, landing page design teams that is spread across a mix of internal, contractors and freelancers
• Maintained timeline and budget guidelines for daily operations and all projects.
• Lead and track multiple creative projects and timelines simultaneously through all steps in a project's lifecycle.
• Source project details, maintain creative direction, brand standards, team workload and delivery of assets for company marketing and content materials.
• Assess, recommend and implement strategies for increased production and workflow efficiencies.
• Troubleshoot and problem solve, develop and write SOPs where needed.
• Maintain timeline and budget guidelines for daily operations on content related projects.
• Search for potential new employees, vet and lead interviews.
• Oversee onboarding of new team members.
• Work closely with our international team to provide marketing and content assets in Spanish, French and German.
• Help create and organize a digital asset management system.
• Schedule and take Gaia original series talent headshots.
• Maintain department's Airtable base, user Kanban views and help create automations.
• Manage approval platform Ziflow for department keeping approvals flowing correctly, users and templates up to date.

• Managed creation, finishing, and printing of key advertising art for theatrical marketing, including social assets, concession programs, promotional advertising, branded swag (tote bags, activity sheets, cups, postcards etc.), pop up publicity stunts, custom theater banners and takeovers as well as assets for conferences, premiere and screening events for multiple internal departments and external theatrical partners.
• Lead project kick off meetings, wrote project briefs and ensured thorough and timely communication across all stakeholders.
• Oversaw creative approval process with stakeholders and the release of assets to multiple internal, external, domestic and international teams.
• Reviewed and proofed creative assets to ensure quality and accuracy of content and color
• Responsible for design and creative process, ensuring digital and printed advertising materials exceeded quality expectations and were on budget.
• Highlights include: Jurassic World art finishing for outdoor campaign, Atomic Blonde and First Man art exhibits at Arclight Hollywood, Glass exhibit at San Diego Comic Con, Pets 2 experience in Thousand Oaks and pop up art gallery in NYC.

• Provided creative input and managed execution of theatrical, television, and print campaigns for theatrical releases.
• Prepared trailer, television and print materials for meetings with executives and filmmakers.
• Worked closely with vendors providing creative direction and overseeing timelines to uphold department quality standards ensuring consistency across all media.
• Protected confidential information, film assets related to marketing materials throughout the production pipeline and across multiple vendors.

• Handled all operations of the studio including production of photo shoots, employee schedule photo equipment maintenance, bookkeeping and website updates.

• Launched the marketing of new data storage products including website redesign, product photography, materials and e-blasts.

• Prepared and managed assets for the Marketing and Publicity Department including still photography, electronic press kits, fact sheets, production notes and the publicity website.
• Coordinated talent, legal and internal approval for all assets Responsible for trafficking of photography assets from hiring of photographer to working with photo labs to get images selected, prepared and distributed internally and to press outlets.
• Maintained project budgets and processed invoices for the payment of vendors.
• Retouched key images to make extremely tight image submission deadline for print.