Jason Roth
Creative Operations & Project Manager
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About
Experienced in planning and executing complex creative workflows involving stakeholders, designers, copywriters, production teams, and vendors. Brings a background spanning publishing, marketing, print production, packaging, and retail display, with particular strengths in scheduling, workflow coordination, vendor management, budgeting, and quality control. Recognized for building collaborative relationships and providing structure and clarity to fast-moving projects.
Experience
Account Manager - Mal Warwick Donordigital - remote
(2025-01)
- Managed production of direct-mail fundraising campaigns for progressive nonprofits.
- Maintained schedules and tracked projects through creative development, proofing, print production, personalization, and mailshop deployment.
- Facilitated communication among clients, designers, copywriters, production staff, printers, and mailshops to support accurate execution and on-time delivery.
- Reviewed proofs, revisions, files, and approvals throughout multiple project stages, maintaining consistency, quality, and schedule discipline.
- Oversaw vendor communication, production tracking, billing reconciliation, and project status reporting across concurrent campaigns.
Project Manager → Operations Manager - Scholastic Education Solutions - remote
(2021-01 - 2024-12)
- Led operations for a 15-person in-house creative team supporting a broad range of marketing and organizational initiatives.
- Managed creative projects supporting major product launches and signature publishing initiatives from planning through final delivery.
- Coordinated creative development, routing, approvals, and asset delivery across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring alignment with launch schedules and stakeholder expectations.
- Guided creative review and approval cycles, incorporating feedback from marketing, editorial, production, and leadership teams.
- Served as primary liaison between internal teams and external vendors, helping resolve issues and maintain project schedules and delivery commitments.
- Facilitated project meetings, status updates, and reporting to track progress, identify risks, and maintain consistency across contributors.
Account Manager - Alborozo Studios - remote
(2020-01 - 2021-12)
- Managed design, fabrication, and installation of temporary and semi-permanent branded retail environments for a major national client.
- Oversaw project budgets, schedules, production specifications, logistics, and installation activities throughout project lifecycles.
- Coordinated communication among clients, designers, fabricators, and vendors to maintain alignment, quality standards, and delivery commitments.
- Tracked project milestones, resolved production challenges, and supported successful execution from concept through installation.
Project Manager → Account Manager - Tri-Plex Design - New York, NY
(2004-01 - 2020-12)
- Directed design, print, and manufacture of consumer product packaging, temporary and semi-permanent retail displays, and branded merchandising.
- Served as primary liaison among clients, designers, fabricators, printers, fulfillment partners, and internal teams throughout project lifecycles.
- Developed budgets, estimates, schedules, specifications, and production plans from concept through installation and final delivery.
- Sourced and developed vendor relationships, obtained competitive bids, negotiated pricing and delivery terms, generated purchase orders, and supervised manufacturing progress.
- Reviewed designs, prototypes, mockups, proofs, and production samples while directing routing, feedback, and approval processes.
- Resolved production challenges and coordinated activities among design, marketing, sales, operations, and vendor teams to maintain schedules and support successful execution.
- Contributed to Woody at 100, recipient of the Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Edition Package (2013).
Print Production Manager - Modern Language Association
Oversaw typesetting, print production, budgets, schedules, vendor relationships, and licensing agreements for scholarly publications and marketing materials.
Manager Production Department & Special Projects - Zagat Survey
Supervised production of books and promotional materials, maintained workflow systems, and trained junior staff in print production.
Production & Project Manager - The College Board
Coordinated print, direct-mail, periodical, and multimedia projects while developing organizational standards for color proofing and production review.
Production Manager - St.Martin's Press
Oversaw production of 150–200 trade titles annually, coordinating editorial, design, prepress, print, and manufacturing relationships.
Education
B.A. - English and American Literature - New York University
